Google assigned the students for this years Summer of Code. FreeBSD got 14 students doing several different projects. I’m going to be very busy as well, it seems, as I offered to mentor Gábor Kövesdán who’s going to work on some very needed issues with the ports infrastructure.
Monthly Archives: May 2006
Blog spamming
Posted by erwin on May 17, 2006
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It seems flooding blogs with comments is the new trend in the spammers world. For the last week or two, I have been deleting some 50 or so posts per day, so I’m starting to get a nice list of trojaned sites. The posts are coming from a large number of different IP addresses, so the conclusion must be that someone is trying to flog his warez through a botnet and getting his links in so many blog comments as possible. Unfortunately for him (or her), comments here are moderated, so they will be deleted before doing any harm. The Internet certainly isn’t what is used to be…
Yet another ports committer: Andrew Pantyukhin
Posted by erwin on May 6, 2006
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New ports committer: Ion-Mihai Tetcu
Posted by erwin on May 6, 2006
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New ports committer: Stefan Walter
Posted by erwin on May 4, 2006
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Google Summer of Code
Posted by erwin on May 3, 2006
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As last year, Google is again doing a Summer of Code for students who want to work on open source projects. FreeBSD had quite a number of projects last year, and we would like to see even more this year. Have a look at the example proposals and sign up.