Hello! As discussed with Sebastian Huber on IRC , is there someone else able/willing to mentor this project or should I look for a different one ?
Kind regards, Andrei 2015-03-09 8:51 GMT+02:00 Andrei - Constantin Popescu < popescu.andrei1...@gmail.com>: > Hello! > > I'm Andrei(Andrei - Constantin Popescu, more exactly), a Computer Science > graduate at Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania. I will begin my > Masters' degree at Vrije University, Amsterdam this fall. During the > undergraduate studies, I pursued a high diversity in computer science > skills, from web development, to kernel development. I took part in GSoC > 2012 and GSoC 2014, both with BRL-CAD. You can find both the devlogs and my > 2014 proposal here <http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Popescu.andrei1991> . > Aside of that, I've also participated with them as a Google Code-in mentor > for the past three years, so you can say I like open source, specially the > freedom to scratch your own itch. > > I was browsing for a project and I came across RTEMS ideas page and then RTEMS > on Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTEMS>soon after. I'm > interested in Operating Systems of any kind, since they're complex software > products on which so many other applications rely on, so I decided to have > a look. Another factor that contributed to my decision that I would like to > code at RTEMS for GSoC 2015 was that my background is helpful in this > aspect. I've been a kernel developer intern for about 8 months at Freescale > and I'm currently employed as a C++ software engineer to a company > producting VoIP software which runs on a RT system. > > The project I decided on is Condition Variables > <https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/Developer/Projects/Open/Condition_Variables>, > I have at least a general idea about how monitors and condition variables > work and since RTEMS is a single process, multithreaded system, my > understanding is that it's an useful/important feature. Unfortunately, the > Resources > URL is broken, but I'll be on IRC most of the time, probably asking lots > of silly questions! I'll (try to) get RTEMS built as soon as possible. If > you have any suggestions, or tasks you believe would help me better > understand this project please tell. > > This project, as well as my( probably not entirely correct) understanding > of RTEMS concepts look interesting, I'm excited to be here and can't wait > to build RTEMS to see how it is/how it works. I'm also curious, on a high > level, how RTEMS differs from linux kernel. I hope I'll be able to tackle > this project and complete it succesfully as it's my first "close > encounter" with a purposely designed rt os! > > Silly question #1, could you tell me a few products that use/rely on > RTEMS? I tried googling for it but was unsuccesful. Thank you! > > Regards, > Andrei > > >
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