Announcing Google Summer of Code 2022 projects

The NetBSD Foundation has finalized the list of projects for this year’s Google Summer of Code. The contributors and projects are the following:

• Brian Schnepp - Raspberry Pi GPU Driver
• Arjun Bemarkar - inetd enhancements
• Piyush Sachdeva - Emulating missing linux syscalls
• Vihas Makwana - Introduce a new Wi-Fi driver
• Vivek Kumar Sah - Automating donor acknowledgement and information storage

The community bonding period has already started (from May 20) and it will last until June 12. During this time, the contributors are expected to coordinate with their mentors and community.

This will be immediately followed by the coding period from June 13 to September 4. After which, the contributors are expected to submit their final work, evaluate their mentors, and get evaluated by their mentors as well. Results will be announced on September 20.

For more information about the Google Summer of Code 2022 kindly refer to the official GSoC website.

We would like to express our gratitude to Google for organizing the yearly GSoC, and to The NetBSD Foundation mentors and administrators for their efforts and hardwork!

Let us welcome all the contributors to our growing NetBSD community!