Haiku Gets Five Student Slots for GSoC 2008

Paging (swap file) support

• Student: Zhao Shuai
• Mentor: Ingo Weinhold

Zeroconf support (automatic network service discovery)

• Student: Alexandru Roman
• Mentor: Ryan Leavengood

HPET and other timers (new ways for tracking system time)

• Student: Dustin Howett
• Mentor: Stefano Ceccherini

Sub-pixel antialiased rendering in the app_server

• Student: Andrej Spielmann
• Mentor: Stephan Aßmus

CIFS client (access to Windows shares)

• Student: Adrien Lemaire
• Mentor: Bruno G. Albuquerque

Please join us in giving a warm welcome to all the accepted students. Make them feel part of the Haiku community, as we want them to stay beyond the summer. And remember: their success is our success, so anything that we can do to assist the students complete their GSoC project successfully is for our benefit too.

We also want to thank all the other students that applied for a Haiku project but could not make it. We would have liked to accept them all, but that is sadly not possible. That being said, we are considering our own summer of code to sponsor one or more projects on our own, so please stick around. Better yet, if you are interested in this idea, contact us to discuss the details. To the community, stay tuned for more details, as you may have an opportunity to help make this happen.

Last but not least, a big thank you to the Haiku mentors who are committing their time to the success of this year's Google Summer of Code and, of course, to Google itself for making this happen and giving us the opportunity to participate again this year.