[gentoo-soc] Presentation from a future applicant

[gentoo-soc] Presentation from a future applicant

[Víctor Román Archidona]

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Hi all,

this is my first message here and I want to introduce myself on the
list. Please excuse my english, I am trying to improve it so any
corrections are welcome.

My full name is Victor Roman Archidona, currently have 25 years and
born/living in Spain, in Ciudad Real exactly but travel every week day
to work in Madrid and study for my own on the UNED University.

I have strong C, DIV and PHP knowledge, advanced skills on
HTML/XHTML/XML languages, medium knowledge of x86 assembly and some
traces of Python which I want to improve it a lot. That's my
"developer profile".

On the other side I work as freelance consultant, being Sun
certifications (SCSAS/SCSA/SCNA/SCSECAM/CLUSTER) one of my principal
job, training youngs from 16 years old to seniors of about 50 years. I
also train people for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, IBM Tivoli
Netcool/Omnibus and IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact. As consultant I also
design system software, web applications and business deployment of
computer networks. Oh! I mention to forgot I host websites as a low
time consuming work from time to time, mostly for friends and SOHOs.

Other interests are computer networks (I really enjoy designing
scalable networks from cable topologies to final core networking) and
software security.

This will be my second time on GSoC, and the second one on Gentoo. I
previous did the project "Gentoo/FreeBSD for Amd64" with success, but
never got maintained due lack of time and no real interest from many
people.

This time I talked with Patrick Lauer to revive the OpenBSD port or do
a NetBSD one. He gently told me those projects were requested from
more users so I decided no to fight with them, and go the "hard" way:
Port Gentoo to Minix.

And, why that project? Well, for my is challenge port Gentoo no to a
very related platform like BSD is but to a completly new platform (no
ELF binaries, small shared libraries support, etc.). It is hard and I
like challeges.

There are more reasons:
    - Minix has an extensive and well documentation: The book
"Operating Systems: Design and Implementation" written by its author
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
    - Is relatively simple and the code base is very small
    - Has lots of common things with BSD and Linux
    - It is a platform which can grow vastly when Portage owns its
world, not only using the current and not so great packman (no
dependency checking, etc.)
    - More if asked :-)

Some work has been done and I don't need to start from scratch. Minix
has packman which may install many of GNU programs needed to start:
binutils, grep, gcc, python, sed, gawk, etc. They aren't the last
versions but ones to start with.

Also, I like sandboxing and Patrick told me the current is not
portable, so a sandbox written in Python may come if needed (and who
knows if it later grows to fits every Gentoo port needs!).

That all for now, I think I wrote enough to disturb you enough and
have stolen your precious time. If you really read until here, thanks,
very thanks for your attention.

Regards,

- -- 
Víctor Román Archidona
http://blog.daijo.org
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