illumos

We assume you’ve already found our Project Ideas, GSoC Application Template, and Google Summer of Code pages.
Self-assessment
The most important starting point is looking at the prerequisites listed for the project, to confirm that you have these skills or have a foundation of knowledge that lets you acquire them rapidly, largely during the bonding period before your project would begin. It’s fine to be ambitious and target a project where you need to grow, but be realistic: with your academic obligations through the end of the current term, will you be able to read a book and write some code to … Continue Reading

Bayard Bell wrote:

I’ve had some questions about what’s involved, so let me provide some
feedback on issues. I’ve already hit this in terms of the long-term,
but let me try to provide a bottom line for this summer:

1) Mentors can go to the GSoC mentor summit in the fall at Google HQ.
Google provides a reasonable amount of reimbursement for travel (it
was $2500 per attendee last year) plus two nights in a hotel ad
transportation to Mountain View. The mentor summit is a weekend-long
unconference that lets mentors talk about whatever interests them:
recruiting contributors, minority open-source operating systems (we’re
trying to make that more of a … Continue Reading

We’re happy to announce that the illumos project has been accepted as a “mentoring organization” for the Google Summer of Code program (GSoC 2012). The illumos project is a community-driven open source operating system development project derived from the former OpenSolaris project. The GSoC program promotes open source by sponsoring summer internships for students interested in working on open source projects like illumos. Members of the illumos community (including Nexenta and Joyent) support this program by offering experienced staff members willing to mentor student projects. If you might like to apply for one of these internships, or just want to … Continue Reading

Developing for illumos

Garrett D’Amore speaks at SCALE 10x, Los Angeles, January 2012
Future Meeting
UKOUG Solaris SIG meets Wednesday 21st March, 18:00-21:00 at the Oracle City Office. Register here.

Chris Ridd will speak on Image Packaging System on OpenIndiana and Solaris 11: an overview of the packaging system (IPS) as used by OpenIndiana and Solaris 11, including the new features added since OpenSolaris. Chris is co-chair of the Solaris SIG, and is a Senior Engineer at Isode Ltd, a developer of high performance messaging and directory server software on Solaris as well as other platforms.

Full details can be found here. If … Continue Reading

Announcement: new development and contribution model for illumos-userland - Bayard says “We’ll aim to do a brief Q&A session at the top of [today's] #oi-meeting.”

Meetup this Wednesday, March 7 at Joyent HQ in San Francisco: Monitoring Public and Private Cloud Infrastructures on SmartOS: Going Native

• Join us for a presentation from Brian Clapper, CTO of Circonus. Brian will discuss how Circonus built in this support, what types of unique telemetry are supported in Circonus and instrumenting SmartOS. He will also provide a DevOps perspective on monitoring SmartOS based on experiences gleaned from work in performance optimization and high-scalability application development and … Continue Reading