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Google SoC 2009 FreeBSD projects announced

Published on April 21, 2009 in Google. 1 Comment

Google announced yesterday the students selected to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2009. Among the 1,000 students, 20 will be working on FreeBSD related projects.

The list with students, mentors and projects can be found here

We wish all the students the best and hopefully a lot/all of their coding will find their way into future FreeBSD releases.

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kmf
April 22, 2009 at 11:33 am

Looking forward to see NetworkManager

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