*BSD projects and Google Summer of Code
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apancetta · 2018-03-14 18:14

With [Google Summer of
Code](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code), students
interested in open source can get a stipend to work on the summer on
open source projects, with a mentor to help.

Student **must apply by 27 March 2018** ([rest of
timeline](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline))

FreeBSD, NetBSD and LLVM are participating. Some project ideas:

[FreeBSD](https://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode.html):

- [Add support for booting a Xen Dom0 from EFI](https://wiki.freebsd.o
rg/SummerOfCodeIdeas#Add_support_for_booting_a_Xen_Dom0_from_EFI)

- [Verification of bhyve's instruction emulation](https://wiki.freebsd
.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas#Verification_of_bhyve.27s_instruction_emulation
)

- [Integrate MFSBSD into the release building tools](https://wiki.free
bsd.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas#Integrate_MFSBSD_into_the_release_building_t
ools)

[NetBSD](https://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/gsoc/):

- [Using libFuzzer on base
tools](https://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/libfuzzer/)

- [Testsuite for
libcurses](https://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/libcurses-
automated-test/)

- [ARM EFI bootloader](https://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/efi/)

[LLVM](http://llvm.org/OpenProjects.html#gsoc18):

- [Improve debugging of optimized
code](http://llvm.org/OpenProjects.html#llvm_optimized_debugging)

- [Fuzzing the Bitcode
reader](http://llvm.org/OpenProjects.html#bitcode_fuzzing)

- [Add support for batch-testing to the LLDB
testsuite](http://llvm.org/OpenProjects.html#lldb-batch-testing)

Other projects are participating. You can find them
[here](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/).