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= Student Application Template =

 * '''Name''': Peter Pentchev
 * '''Contact/Email''': roam@ringlet.net, jabber: tkzintar@jabber.org, IRC: Roamer`
 * '''Background''': I am a Bulgarian student in Sofia University.  I'm a software developer with some experience in many areas of programming and system administration.  I have worked on command-line, GUI, network, database, system and kernel programs under various operating systems: Apple ][ DOS, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, with some experience with Solaris, HP/UX and IRIX.  I am very comfortable programming in C, C++, Perl, PHP and the Bourne shell, quite experienced with Python, C#, Java and x86 assembly and dabbled in JavaScript, Forth, 6502 assembly and a couple of other languages.  I have been contributing to various open-source projects since 1998; as a result of that, I became a FreeBSD Ports committer in 2000 and a Debian package maintainer in 2010.  As a result of various life- and work-related activities, I was not able to make any progress on my Debian Developer application in 2011, but I hope that I can contribute more usefully to the Debian project now and this Google Summer of Code project looks like a fun and interesting way to start.
 * '''Project title''': Bootstrappable Debian
 * '''Project details''': described at https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2014/Projects#SummerOfCode2014.2FProjects.2FBootstrappable_Debian.Bootstrappable_Debian
 * '''Project schedule''': I can begin at any time and work on the project until it is complete.
 * '''Exams and other commitments''': Should not be a problem, since I am not taking many courses this semester and they will complete about the start of the actual GSoC coding phase.
 * '''Other summer plans''': As I wrote in an e-mail to this project's mentors, I am actually employed at a software development company.  However, I do believe that I should be able to devote 20 to 30 hours per week to GSoC.
 * '''Why Debian?''': I have been interested in Debian for many years now, first as a rock-solid OS for both mission-critical and play/test installations, then as an amazingly well-integrated collection of applications, then by its great packaging tools and build/distribution framework making it very easy to both maintain local packages as a sysadmin aid and to submit some of them for use by everyone else.  Of course, the Social Contract and the ideas about freedom help a lot, too :)  It's a great place to find free software for pretty much any task I can think of, it's also a great way to keep upstream software maintainers aware of both freedom-related and code quality-related issues, and I'd like to help keep it that way.
 * '''Are you applying for other projects in SoC?''' Yes, a FreeBSD project to create an in-kernel Netgraph implementation of the AYIYA (Anything-In-Anything) tunnel used by the SixXS IPv6 tunnel broker.