Congratulations to the following who were selected to work on
Samba projects as part of
Google's Summer of
Code '06. Google will fund the following 6 students to work on
Samba over the Summer months.
-
Brad Henry
- Implement a system for fully automated testing against
Windows.
- Brad attends the University of Regina in
Saskatchewan, Canada. He has a B.Sc. in Computer
Science, and is currently majoring in Philosophy. He also
participated in last year's Summer of Code.
- Mentors: Andrew Tridgell
-
Michael Krax
- Develop a logging system to allow system administrators
better network monitoring than is possible with current debug
logs.
- Michael is working on a PhD in Political Science at
Free University Berlin.
- Mentor: Jerry Carter
-
Martin Kühl
- Provide support for an external LDAP server in Samba4.
- Martin is currently pursuing a Diplom of Informatics at the
University of Bremen. He is also a student developer at
Univention.
- Mentor: Andrew Bartlett
-
K. Sreepathi Pai
- Implement User Management Interface for SWAT in Samba4.
- Sreepathi has been studying Computer Engineering for the last 4
years at Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
- Mentor: Andrew Tridgell
-
Ming Wong
- Create a VFS module to share files across 2 disks, in a sense,
creating user-space RAID.
- Ming is a student at RMIT University, where
he studies Computer Science.
- Mentors: Jerry Carter and Jiri
Klouda
-
Mingwang Xia
- Develop an alternative configuration, registry-like backend for Samba3.
- Mingwang is a graduate student in Advanced Computing and
Systems Lab at Zhejiang University, China
- Mentor: Jerry Carter
We are glad to have these new developers, even if only
for a few months. We're looking forward to the code
they will contribute to Samba.