As promised, today Google published the final results for the 2007 Summer of Code draft. Haiku is assigned 8 student who will all work on their own project (mentored by six members from the Haiku development team). Initially Haiku aimed for 7 places and received 42 applications. Here is a list of the projects that will be worked on:

Network stack revamp: IPv6, ICMP, multicast, etc.
by Hugo Santos, mentored by Axel Dörfler

Create a thread scheduler with CPU affinity
by André França Braga, mentored by Bruno G. Albuquerque

USB isochronous streams
by salvatore benedetto, mentored by Oliver Ruiz Dorantes

FireWire stack for Haiku
by JiSheng Zhang, mentored by Jerome Duval

Network Preferences Application
by Andre Alves Garzia, mentored by Bruno G. Albuquerque

Package (.pkg) installer for the Haiku Operating System
by Lukasz Zemczak, mentored by Ryan Leavengood

Implement ICMP error handling and propagation
by Ivo Vachkov, mentored by Axel Dörfler

Implement a precache algorithm along with aging policy for the file system caches
by Krishna Kishore Annapureddy, mentored by François Revol

The official development period starts on May 28 and will end on August 31, in the mean time the fresh developers have time to get to known the existing team and get familiar with the code-base. All in all huge boost of manhours to get R1 done!

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