This all came together at the last second.
If you were thinking of working on a disk scheduler for DragonFly, this is your lucky day! Brills Peng asked for some overall guidance on how to start on a Summer of Code project. I threw out some general tips, Alex Hornung talked up resources on kernel programming, and Venkatesh Srinivas described exactly what you’d need to write
The PC-BSD 8.2 Handbook is now available through Amazon’s Kindle Store. The English version is already available for purchase at most of the Amazon country sites and the Indonesian version should be available sometime in the next 24 hours. We’ll add other translated versions as they become available. Purchase price is $4.99 USD and proceeds are used to help fund
Google Summer of Code is a program that offers student developers stipends for a 3 month programming project with the participating open source mentoring organization of their choice.
NetBSD is among the 175 projects chosen to be mentor organizations for Google Summer of Code 2011.
Look at the list of suggested projects, and if you are eligible to participate,
Google Summer of Code is a program that offers student developers stipends for a 3 month programming project with the participating open source mentoring organization of their choice.
NetBSD is among the 175 projects chosen to be mentor organizations for Google Summer of Code 2011.
Look at the list of suggested projects, and if you are eligible to participate,
On March 31, Stephen Nelson-Smith will be giving a remote presentation (via bigbluebutton) at this month’s CAPBUG meeting. Details for accessing the live presentation via your web browser will be announced before the event on the CAPBUG mailing list. The presentation will include a discussion on using pc-sysinstall to automate FreeBSD installations. Here is the presentation’s synopsis and
We made it into Google Summer of Code for a 4th year! (yay!)
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/show/google/gsoc2011/dragonflybsd
If you want to mentor, apply here:
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/mentor/request/google/gsoc2011/dragonflybsd
(You will need to create a login if you don’t have one.) I’m assuming the applicants are going to be people I know with a direct history with DragonFly; otherwise be prepared to give a good history.
The following PBIs are now available from Software Manager:
Picard: Picard is the next generation MusicBrainz tagging application. This new tagging concept is album oriented, as opposed to track/file oriented.
Osmo: Osmo is a handy personal organizer, which includes calendar, tasks manager, address book and notes modules. It is a GTK+ based tool which uses a plain XML database to
The newest BSDTalk has a roughly 15-minute talk with Dan Langille about the upcoming 2011 BSDCan and PGCon events.
This shouldn’t be a surprise considering recent events: AsiaBSDCon 2011 has had some event cancellations; specifically the tutorials and meetings. The paper presentations starting on the 19th, and the banquet, are still on, however. (via)
The latest testing snapshot for 9.0 is now available in various formats from the FTP server. Some notes on this snapshot:
Google Search turned up something new: Daemon & Penguin oggcast. It’s a podcast, with every episode covering something Unix-ish – usually BSD. Each episode also reviews a horror movie. It’s not a mix I would have predicted, but I can see how it would work. The first oggcast has him installing DragonFly.
