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This is a DRAFT of our Summer of Code 2009 application to be submitted at http://socghop.appspot.com/org_app/apply/google/gsoc2009 once application open.

If you aren't a SoC admin, please contact soc-admins@freebsd.org with comments rather than editing this directly.

• Link ID: freebsd
• Group Name: FreeBSD
• Home Page URL: http://www.freebsd.org/
• Public Email: soc-admins@freebsd.org
• Description
  • XXX swiped from the last application, I don't entierly like it. -brooks

• XXX should mention things like openbsm, jemalloc, and libarchive to accent the multiplier effect

• The FreeBSD Project is a large, mature, and yet relatively tightly nit organization. The FreeBSD Project began 15 years ago in 1993, but is based on the work at Berkeley CSRG with open source revision history going back 30 years to 1978. There are currently over 300 developers with write access to the main revision control system, and hundreds more with access to our Perforce servers for experimental and third party development (this is also where our summer of code students have worked in previous years). We have an active mentoring program to bring all new developers into our community, not just those that we introduce to FreeBSD through the GSoC. There are hundreds of mailing lists, blogs, irc channels, and user groups all detailed on our main website. FreeBSD offers a complete operating system in which students can work, not just a kernel or specific userland stack. This allows for interesting work that spans the userland/kernel boundary, and allows students to build up and package complete modified FreeBSD operating system CDs/DVDs to distribute as ISOs for testing, for example.

• Why is your group applying to participate? What do you hope to gain by participating?
  • XXX: prose-ify
  • - New blood
  • - Implement features
  • - Advertise the project

• What is the main public mailing list for your group?
  • XXXbrooks: do we point people at mailman? We don't really have a single point of entry. Probably don't want to point at forums due to lack of devs.

• Where is the main IRC channel for your group?: N/A

• What criteria do you use to select the members of your group? Please be as specific as possible.
  • XXX

• Has your group participated previously? If so, please summarize your involvement and any past successes and failures.
  • XXX: rwatson?

• If your group has not previously participated, have you applied in the past? If so, for what sort of participation?: N/A

• What license does your organization use?: New and Simplified BSD licenses

• What is the URL to the ideas list of your organization?: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/

• What is the main development mailing list for your group?: hackers@freebsd.org (XXX: ?)

• What is the application template you would like contributors to your organization to use.: SummerOfCode2009Template (XXX: Finish this)

• What is your plan for dealing with disappearing contributors?
  • XXX

• What is your plan for dealing with disappearing members?
  • XXX

• What steps will you take to encourage contributors to interact with your community before, during, and after the program?
  • XXX

• What will you do to ensure that your accepted contributors stick with the project after the program concludes?
  • XXX: prosify
  • encourage mentors to sponsor successful contributers for commit privleges before the end of the program
  • encourge setting scheduled calling for useful patches to be posted early and often so more code makes it in to the tree before the end of the program period
  • XXX: others?

• Please select your backup group administrator (link_id): XXX: who's this going to be?