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NetBSD and Google's Summer of Code

Posted by timothy on from the platform-agnostic dept.

ruipaulo writes "When Google announced the "Summer of Code", its program designed to introduce students to the world of open source software development, the NetBSD Project understood the value of this project and entered as a mentoring organization. Over a period of two weeks, students researched the list of possible projects and discussed their proposals on the public mailing lists and in private with developers and other users alike. After evaluating over 100 distinct applications, the NetBSD Foundation is now pleased to announce the list of projects that have been chosen. See the associated press release for all the details."

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  1. Other Projects by Nurgled · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Has there been posted a list of all of the accepted projects for all organisations yet? I was trying to find it on the mailing list but it doesn't seem that it has been announced yet. I'm curious to see what kinds of things people are going to be working on.

    1. Re:Other Projects by macshit · · Score: 3, Interesting

      There was a bit of a scandal on the debian mailing lists about this -- some people thought it would be cool for debian to participate, but apparently when they contacted google about it, google replied "ha ha, too late!!"

      It seems that essentially the guy in charge picked those projects he liked, and the public notice was more for appearance's sake than anything else ("Please apply from 3 to 3:05 am on a sunday morning, in the locked disused lavatory in the basement of an undisclosed location. Beware of the tiger.").

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      We live, as we dream -- alone....
  2. Yeehaw! by The+Nine · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm actually rather excited about this. NetBSD is turning into a damn fine operating system. The 2.0 release was really special. 3.0 is coming up soon (end of July, or that's the plan). Now, thanks to google, the project has a little extra developer muscle for upcoming releases. I really look forward to the near future releases of NetBSD. Hopefully things will just keep getting better!

    1. Re:Yeehaw! by The+Nine · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I'm relatively new to NetBSD, but have really loved my whole experience thus far. I can only take other people's word for the fact that 2.0 was a huge improvement over 1.6, but I can definitely say that 2.0 has been a genuine pleasure for me to use, and I'm in the process of switching most of my boxes over to it. I was more than happy to make a substantial donation when they asked recently. Here's hoping they keep the good stuff coming!