Google Summer of Code 2008

Etherboot Project is participating in Google Summer of Code in 2008.

Although the application period is now over, the list of project ideas is still available.

Participating students can find preparation instructions and meeting schedules on the info page.

GSoC 2008 Etherboot Project Students

GSoC 2008 Etherboot Project Mentors

Google has generously sponsored 4 students to work on the following projects:

Michael's Project page
Michael Decker is updating a legacy Etherboot driver to the gPXE API and porting a Linux driver to gPXE. <br clear="all" />

Stefan's Project page
Stefan Hajnoczi is implementing remote debugging support in gPXE so developers can use the GNU Project Debugger (GDB) or any debugger which supports the GDB remote protocol. <br clear="all" />

Balaji's Project page
Balaji Rao is implementing USB support so that network cards that are connected through the USB bus can be used by gPXE. <br clear="all" />

Daniel's Project page
Daniel Verkamp is implementing SYSLINUX COMBOOT API support so that gPXE can run COMBOOT executables for features like menu user interfaces. <br clear="all" />

Marty Connor is Project Leader of the Etherboot Project, a globally distributed team of developers and users of innovative network booting technology. He is the creator and maintainer of the rom-o-matic.net website which dynamically generates custom gPXE and Etherboot network boot images. Mr. Connor is also CEO of Entity Cyber, Inc., a technology consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has advised clients on technology matters for over 20 years. <br clear="all" />

Michael Brown is the lead developer of the Etherboot Project (http://etherboot.org/) and is responsible for its evolution into gPXE, the current state of the art in network booting. He owns an open-source consultancy business, Fen Systems Ltd., and spends most of his time working on improvements to gPXE for customers across the world. He lives in Cambridge, England, and occasionally wonders what it would be like to have more than 64 kilobytes to play with. <br clear="all" />

H. Peter Anvin has been hacking Linux since 1992. He is the author and maintainer of the SYSLINUX suite of bootloaders, part of the Linux kernel x86 architecture maintainer team, and author or maintainer of a large number of Open Source projects, including the Netwide Assembler, klibc and tftp-hpa.

He is the founder and president of the Linux Kernel Organization, operators of kernel.org, the Linux kernel website. He lives in San Jose, California, and works for rPath, Inc. <br clear="all" />