Comfortably Geek

The wait is over, and we hereby announce the students selected for the NS-3 Summer of Code 2011 programme!

• Ashwin Narayan with “Click-MAC extensions for ns-3-click”. Mentored by Ruben Merz and myself.
• Pankaj Gupta with “LTE-RRC extensions”. Mentored by Giuseppe Piro and Francesco Capozzi.
• Atishay Jain with “IPv6 Global Routing”. Mentored by Tom Henderson and Mitch Watrous.

Congratulations to all the students. Hoping to see a lot of good code come out of this effort and most importantly, some long term contributors to the ns-3 project itself.

The NS-3 Summer of Code programme has received a good deal of interest from students so far, and I’m pretty excited to see what the final set of applications will look like.

Anyhow, hurry up students, the deadline for NSoC is on the 15th of April, 2011 at 19:00 UTC! Visit the NSoC wiki to find information regarding the applying process. Meanwhile, we recommend that you discuss your proposals as much as possible on the ns-developers mailing list and with your potential mentors before you apply to keep your proposal focused and polished.

Unfortunately, ns-3 wasn’t selected as a mentoring organisation for GSoC 2011. But don’t worry, it doesn’t end with that. We are keen on self organising a summer of code programme of our own, so that we can support some student projects and offer mentoring for the same over the summer. While we haven’t decided on the exact plan yet, it is on our agenda for next week’s ns-3 developers’ meeting at Barcelona, co-located with Simutools 2011 and WNS3 2011. So stay tuned for updates from our end. If you have any ideas, suggestions or expectations from such a programme, feel free to get in touch with me and let me know what you think.

As the title suggests, ns-3-click is finally in. So go ahead, clone ns-3-dev, and test all your Click graphs today! And as always, patches and improvements are welcome.

Google Summer of Code 2011 is on. Students, what are you waiting for? Go through last year’s pages to narrow down on a mentoring organisation that suits you, and start getting your hands dirty by hacking on some projects as soon as possible. Remember, the earlier you start working on your proposal, the more refined it will be by the application deadline. And if your dream mentoring organisation doesn’t get selected, remember that it doesn’t stop you from contributing outside of GSoC.

You can find all the information you need here.