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Re: [MirageOS-devel] next steps for working on outreachy project



On 2 December 2015 at 23:52, Kia <sadieperkins@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I got accepted for the December 7 - March 7 round of outreachy internships
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/2015/DecemberMarch#Xen_Project and I'm not
> sure what to do next. In the application, I said the work I planned to
> accomplish was:
>
>> In parallel in the first two months:
>> * create github issues for known NTP protocol flaws, with reference to this
>> paper: http://www.cs.bu.edu/~goldbe/papers/NTPattack.pdf
>> * create a purely functional NTP library without dependencies to UNIX (to 
>> parse
>> and generate packets and to implement the state machine / filtering / clock
>> discipline algorithms)
>> * a test suite for this library
>>
>> In the remaining time:
>> * a Mirage unikernel or unikernels acting as at least one of an NTP server 
>> or an
>> NTP client, which may require modification to the mirage clock interface.
>
> I am not sure what things I have to do next and i have a few questions --
> does my plan need to be revised, do I need to set up time to meet with my
> mentor or with someone else, do I need to sign legal agreements (like is
> mentioned in 
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy#Advice_about_Using_Your_Legal_Name),
> and are there any other things required/expected of me in this?

Hi Kia,

Did you get a reply to this? I don't know about the outreachy stuff,
but your plan sounds good to me!


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