FreeBSD – the unknown Giant

Murray Stockely reports about the success rate for Summer of Code students working on FreeBSD. 19 out of 21 students successfully completed the program this summer.  He has created a summary of all 19 individual projects. On the Google Open Source Blog he wrote a post to showcase some student projects from our fourth successful summer of code:

FreeBSD has participated as a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code™ each year since 2005. This year, FreeBSD mentored 21 students with a final success rate of 91%. Robert Watson and I have written a detailed summary of the FreeBSD 2008 Summer of Code experience. With the help of our mentors we’ve selected three successful projects to showcase here:

The summer has ended but many students are continuing to work on their projects.

Related posts:

1. FreeBSD Google Summer of Code
2. Google Summer of Code update
3. FreeBSD Summer of Code 2007
4. FreeBSD and Google Summer of Code 2009
5. FreeBSD and Google’s Summer of Code (GSoC)