Project Ideas for OpenSolaris

March 5, 2007 11:40 pm General

Last year, OpenSolaris had the opportunity of taking part in the Google Summer of Code, getting 2 student projects to work on. Nicolai and Ricardo both did a rocking job with their respective projects, and I believe it was a success all round.

This year presents another opportunity to build on the experiences of last year, and I still think it’s very much worth the effort of applying again as a mentoring organization and coming up with a list of rocking projects. Not only does it give us the opportunity of consolidating a tailored list of suggestions for any potential student of OpenSolaris community member to pick up and work on in our day to day development, it also gives us an opportunity to learn from the interaction of bringing new people into the project as a whole, something that we desperately need to advocate more of if we really want the project to grow and succeed.

Specifically, I desperately need people to stand up, take on the responsibility and step up to the plate – get involved either by suggesting relatively straight forward project ideas, by being a mentor, or simply contributing your ideas of how best to run this. We need our rockstars to be involved (you know who you are). We need them to take an interest in the project, lead by example and encourage others.

We currently have a mailing list (check out the archives) for the organization of this, working against a series of pretty hard deadlines. I, however, can’t do this alone and I need your help. A few people have already joined up – I hope others (*cough* ON *cough*) take their lead.

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