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+ <h3><a name="soc_projects">Summer of Code Projects</a></h3>
+
+ <div class="article">
+ <p>Congratulations to the following who were selected to work on
+ Samba projects as part of
+ <a href="http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html">Google's Summer of
+ Code</a>. Samba had a total of 69 submitted proposals from 59 unique
+ individuals. From these, Google will fund 6 to work on Samba over the
+ months of July and August.</p>
+
+ <div class="heading_list">
+ <ul >
+ <li>
+ <span class="punch">Brad Henry</span>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Write the regression tests necessary to implement
+ the Active Directory Synchronization protocol
+ between domain controllers.</li>
+ <li><span class="tilt">Mentors: Andrew Bartlett, Stefan Metzmacher</span></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <span class="punch">Kalim Moghul</span>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Write a new version of Samba 3.0's smbclient
+ on top of the libsmbclient API.</li>
+ <li><span class="tilt">Mentor: Jerry Carter</span></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <span class="punch"> Chris Nicholls</span>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Implement an MS-RPC library that would allow
+ client applications to manage remote Windows
+ and Samba servers.</li>
+ <li><span class="tilt">Mentor: Jerry Carter</span></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <span class="punch"> Amit Regmi</span>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Develop a server management framework written
+ in python for Samba 3.0 hosts.</li>
+ <li><span class="tilt">Mentor: Jerry Carter</span></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <span class="punch"> Asser Femø</span>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Add support to the Linux CIFS kernel fs for
+ utilizing the DNOTIFY interface for file and
+ directory refresh.</li>
+ <li><span class="tilt">Mentor: Steve French</span></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <span class="punch">Jelmer Vernooij</span>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Add support to Samba 4.0 for upgrading configuration
+ settings and user/group accounts from Samba 3.0
+ installations. </li>
+ <li><span class="tilt">Mentor: Andrew Bartlett</span></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>We are really excited to have these new developers, even if only
+ for a few months. Look for them on the samba-technical mailing list
+ and IRC channel.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+