[Nix-dev] Google Summer of Code 2015

[Anderson Torres]

2015-02-04 10:37 GMT-02:00 Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si>:
> Hi all,
>
> Google Summer of Code 2015 opens registrations on 9th of February for
> organizations and closes on 20th of February. We have 5 days to write down
> ideas how could a student improve NixOS during his/her summer.
>
> We've applied last year but didn't get accepted. Let's do our best to give
> it another try this year!
>
> Submit your ideas that would take a junior developer 3 months of work to
> accomplish a solid goal at https://nixos.org/wiki/GSOC_2015_ideas_list
>
> List of information every idea should have:
>
> - descriptive title
> - detailed description of the task and scope
> - contact (email, irc)
> - required skills/languages

Well, I am outside the academic world, but I will suggest some ideas:

1 - For NixOS, independence of systemd :)
There are even complete discussions about it on the mailing list about
getting rid of systemd.
2 - Portability across BSD platforms, like NetBSD and FreeBSD. And
even the possibility to run all NetBSD stack on Nix (it would need a
considerable effort to be made in only 3 months, but we can touch
small things).

>
> PS: for inspiration:
>
> - http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2014/Ideas
> - https://plone.org/events/summer-of-code/2014
>
> Domen
>
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