The FreeBSD Project was a successful mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code. This program funds students to contribute to an open source project over the summer break. We had dozens of successful students working on FreeBSD as part of this program in 2005 and 2006.
For a complete list of student projects from previous years, visit:
See also our FreeBSD SoC2006 Wiki and the Google FreeBSD SoC 2006 pages.
Please see the general FreeBSD Project Ideas page. The recent Developer Status Reports are also a good source of information about upcoming projects. A Summer of Code-specific addendum may be posted here in Spring 2007.
A list of potential mentors will be posted here when the 2007 program is announced.
Students are responsible for writing a proposal and submitting it to Google before the application deadline. The following outline was adapted from the Perl Foundation open source proposal HOWTO. A strong proposal will include:
In 2005 and 2006, the FreeBSD Project provided access to the FreeBSD Perforce revision control infrastructure in order to facilitate student collaboration, provide public access and archiving for the on-going student projects, and to help mentors and the community monitor on-going work. It is expected that students participating in future programs will be offered the same facilities. Students will also be asked to maintain wiki pages on their on-going projects. In the past, e-mail, IRC, and instant messaging have proven popular among students and mentors, and students participating in the FreeBSD summer program are encouraged to use these and other electronic communication mechanisms to become active in the community.
What about Summer of 2007?
We again hope to be able to work with Google and participate in a sponsored Google Summer of Code program in 2007. Please check back in Spring 2007 for details.