Hello all! I'm William Holbrook, a sophomore at Morehead State University (located in the eastern part of Kentucky, United States). I'm planning on applying to GSoC this year, and I think it'd be awesome to see Arch on the list of mentoring organizations. I read a few days back on the arch-dev-public mailing list about the possibility of Arch applying as a mentoring organization. From what I can gather, Arch hasn't participated in previous GSoC's. I've looked at some of the project ideas thrown around in arch-dev-public for this year's GSoC. Package signing appears to be desired by some members of the community, and it would make things more secure (gotta love trusting your favorite mirror). It seems to have been worked on quite a bit in this past month by Denis Falqueto on the pacman-dev mailing list (possibly some others; difficulties reading plaintext mailing lists). An interesting project! I've always thought about what would be a good way to become a part of the FOSS scene, and I think that GSoC will help me do just that. I hope to see Arch on the list of organizations when it comes time for students to begin applying! -- William Holbrook II Mathematics Major Computer Science Major Morehead State University
