Plan 9 and related technologies cover a huge range of topics. Below we've put together a list of some ideas which we think would be good candidates for stundents looking for summer-sized projects with us. Each idea includes at least a brief description and a list of "sponsors" for the idea (people who've suggested it or volunteered to work with folks on it). Ideas are rated for estimated difficulty from 1 to 5 stars (1=easy, 5=hard) and may contain links to further information or discussion.
Note! We actively encourage students to submit applications for projects not on this list, too. We've accepted such projects most of the years we've participated. Plan 9 (and its cousins) embody a different way of approaching problems, and we get most excited when we see a student (or anyone, for that matter) apply those ideas to their own set of problems.
In addition to this ideas page, prospective students should look over our GSoC Student Expectations and be prepared to submit an application matching our GSoC Student Application. For more information, note our general GSoC page.
If you're looking for additional ideas, you might check out the todo, bugs, and ideas lists for Inferno, 9atom, and Acme-SAC. These lists are more general and not everything on them will all be a good size for a summer, but they are good sources of inspiration. Some of the most promising fits are duplicated below. There's also our prior editions of this page: gsoc-2013-ideas, gsoc-2012-ideas, and gsoc-2011-ideas.
If you're a community member and you have an idea you'd be willing to act as mentor for, please add it to this page! Just follow the format given and provide a good summary of the project. If you'd like, create and link a wiki page with as much detail as you'd like (but please don't swamp this page). Please only add ideas you're willing to mentor (or have directly spoken to whoever you're marking down as mentor).
There appears to be a reasonable Go library for SMB which could be the basis for an updated SMB client (replacing cifs). SMB is one of the more common protocols in use by modern NAS software; getting a modern client would enable interesting usecases such as booting from a minimal ramdisk, then mounting /usr and additional binaries from a SMB share. This project will require the student to familiarize themselves with the SMB library, a Go 9P library, and factotum (for credential storage).
| Last modified Fri Feb 12 15:11:15 PST 2021 | [ Current version | Changelog | Create a new page ] |
About the server
|
|