Uwe Hermann | A slightly paranoid Debian developer

As you may know there's a Google Summer of Code program again this year.

The deadline for student applications is April 9th at 19:00 UTC, so if you're a student and you want to work on a coreboot (open-source BIOS / PC firmware) or flashrom (open-source BIOS chip flasher) project, please apply in time.

The following coreboot/flashrom GSOC project ideas have been proposed so far (but you can also suggest your own ideas, of course):

• Infrastructure for automatic code checking
• TianoCore on coreboot
• coreboot port to Marvell ARM SOCs with PCIe
• coreboot port to AMD 800 series chipsets
• coreboot mass-porting to AMD 780 series mainboards
• coreboot panic room
• coreboot cheap testing rig
• coreboot GeodeLX port from v3 to v4
• Drivers for libpayload
• Board config infrastructure
• Refactor AMD code
• Payload infrastructure
• flashrom: Multiple GUIs for flashrom
• flashrom: Recovery of dead boards and onboard flash updates
• flashrom: SPI bitbanging hardware support
• flashrom: Generic flashrom infrastructure improvements
• flashrom: Laptop support

See this wiki page for why and how to apply for a coreboot/flashrom project.

Just FYI: The student application deadline for this year's Google Summer of Code has been postponsed to Monday, April 7, 2008.

So, if you've been thinking about applying as a student for one of the many, many accepted open source projects (Debian, Linux, NetBSD, subversion, vim, or coreboot — just to name a few) you still have a few days left...

We're happy to announce that the LinuxBIOS project will have the possibility to take part in this year's Google Summer of Code™ (GSoC) program. coresystems GmbH was accepted as a mentoring organization for the GSoC and will mentor all LinuxBIOS-related projects.

There is a GSoC page in the LinuxBIOS wiki which collects a few ideas for student projects, among others:

• Booting Windows and other Operating Systems in LinuxBIOS
• Port Grub2 to work in LinuxBIOS
• SCSI booting in LinuxBIOS
• CMOS Config / Device Tree Browser Payload
• LinuxBIOS graphical port creator
• Open Firmware payload for LinuxBIOS
• GNUFI or TianoCore payloads
• Boot OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD or other free OSes
• Improve Linux as a BIOS

Feel free to post more ideas and wishlist items to the LinuxBIOS mailing list.

If you're interested in applying for a project, you need to hurry up. The deadline is March 24, 2007!