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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Jonathan,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Its great you interesting in these GSoC projects as they really help the user experience of OI.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Both the IPS and installer projects are about usability, as you have experience in using them previously you likely have some idea of what we are trying to achieve.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>For IPS ideas have been for improving the command line search (or improving its friendliness), perhaps an aptitude-like screen mode or other similar improvements.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>For the installer ideas such as improved disk selection (including mirror support), possible package selection, groups, desktop selection, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Feel free to propose other ideas if you have a passion for anything, probably a good idea to hang about on oi-dev irc channel where there will be support to help you build your proposal. Your also welcome to mail me privately if you wish to discuss something, but in general the irc channel has better heads than mine </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bye,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Deano<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Jonathan Tan [mailto:januaryjon@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 05 April 2011 17:24<br><b>To:</b> new-developers@openindiana.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [OpenIndiana-New-developers] GSoC Application for Open Indianna<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I have been looking around the OI mailing list and IRC for a while now, looking for places where I hope to be able to contribute.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>After looking at the list in <a href="http://www.illumos.org/projects/illumos-gate/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code">http://www.illumos.org/projects/illumos-gate/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code</a>, I am interested in the few projects, mainly Improved Installation and IPS enhancements, all of which are supposed to be handled by DeanoC. I'm really interested in the installation and IPS because it's one of the more promising feature that I feel really needs improvement since the days I started using OpenSolaris few years back.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I am also very interested in the ZFS encryption project, although the "hard" difficulty is making me think twice. Also, I've never worked on a filesystem project before, other than school lab where we had write a simple C code to read from a raw FAT partition.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>May I ask what exactly is the "medium" or "hard" difficulty, what is involved? It would also be great if someone can explain what needs to be done for the 3 projects.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I have some experience in C programming, but have never really programmed in python before. Also, are those projects still open, or someone else has already taken it up?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Finally, should I be asking this here or in the oi-dev mailing list? Pardon me if I got it wrong.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Jonathan Tan<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>