Re: Possible internship

George <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi
>
> I'm a bachelor student interested in embedded systems. My final theses is connected with micro kernel based operating
> system, and I would really love to discover and contribute to this project as much as I can. I also need to find an internship
> opportunity. Thus, I was wondering if some knowledgeable developer could become my mentor, guide me and answer my
> questions.
>
> I must note that I'm not yet too experienced with systems development, and the most meaningful project I've done so far was
> assembling Linux from scratch and BLFS. I've also used GNU Guix, and became somewhat familiar with Guile Scheme and
> Shepherd daemon manager. Although I lack certain knowledge at this time, I like to believe that I'm a capable learner,
> especially under a good mentorship.
>

You could ask people on guix-devel for ideas too, since they are using
the Hurd.  :)  I know there was (and maybe still is) a software repo for
trying to be able to start hurd translators via GNU Guile.

Ahh, here it is:

https://notabug.org/guile-hurd/guile-hurd

>
> My primary interest in this is how to port it to riscv64 architecture, and make a usable, power-efficient desktop user
> experience.
>
> Not sure if GNU can provide an internship opportunity, let alone make my university accept it, but I would love to hear some
> recommendations for this.
>
> Best regards,
>
> George