[OpenIndiana-New-developers] GSoC Application for Open Indianna

[Jonathan Tan]

Hi,

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.

After looking at the list in
http://www.illumos.org/projects/illumos-gate/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code, 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.

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.

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.

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?

Finally, should I be asking this here or in the oi-dev mailing list? Pardon
me if I got it wrong.

Best Regards,
Jonathan Tan
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