Google Sommer of Code 2008

[Matthias Schmidt <matthias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Google just announced its Summer of Code for 2008:

	http://code.google.com/soc/2008/

I think this would be a great opportunity for DragonFly to participate
as a mentoring organisation.  We could attract new developers and could
get code/work done.  Looking at the SoC results of the other BSDs most
of their projects were a success.  Of course, not all, but a reasonable
percentage.  See [1] and [2].

It is some extra work for us, but IMO the benefits outweigh the extra
work.  And yes, I would volunteer as a mentor.  What do others
(developers) think?  Any more volunteers? :)

Some project ideas that come into my mind.  More ideas are listed in the
wiki:  http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.cgi/ProjectsPage

 * Fix all remaining bugs in dma(8) and implement all missing features
 * Add a driver for newer Intel Wireless cards (I think sephe@ would
   love that :)
 * Bring our ACPI stuff in shape.  Maybe suspend2disk ...

 * [Add your own thoughts here]

Cheers,

	Matthias

PS: I don't want to create a bikeshed here whether you like the SoC or
not :)

[1] http://code.google.com/soc/2007/freebsd/about.html
[2] http://code.google.com/soc/2007/netbsd/about.html