Fwd: GSoC GNU Hurd Project

[Vikram Vincent]

Forwarding to bug-hurd

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From: subin surendren <subi.email@gmail.com>
Date: 19 Mar 2008 11:07
Subject: GSoC GNU Hurd Project
To: l4-hurd@gnu.org

I am a student doing my undergraduate engineering course in
 Information Technology at MES College of Engineering, Kuttipuram in
 India.
 
 I have just come across the GNU Hurd project being listed as a mentor
 organisation in Google SoC 2008.
 
 I have a proposal to work on the "installer part" of the GNU Hurd. A
 few of my seniors did work on this project (GNU Hurd LX Installer)
 last year co-ordinating with Philip Charles of New Zealand. Our work
 has been listed at http://gnu.ethz.ch/hurd
 
 The LX installer project was also listed by Sourceforge at
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/hurdlx
 
 Since GNU Hurd doesn't have a native installer, the LX project made
 use of a stable surrogate installer for the purpose of installation
 and went ahead right upto the features of getting X console after
 installation – which was unique.
 
 This time around, our plan is to extend these features further :
       (a) incorporate latest stable surrogate installer
       (b) get a gui installer part working
       (c) work with the latest release of Hurd – equivalent to K16 or later
 
 Since the guides of this project is here (C K Raju, Raghesh A and
 Badharudeen P), it would be possible to carry the work forward.
 
 The proposed team members (all classmates) are
 
       (1) Subin M
       (2) Manoj K M
       (3) Binu J Raj
 
 We are awaiting to hear from you,
 
 Yours truly,