Google Summer of Code is one of the coolest programs in open source, as it connects students who would like to work on open source projects with … open source projects. I had the privileged to mentor GSOC in the past, and am very thankful to Google for helping spread OSS among college and university students.

This year, Puppet is glad to have two great students working on a couple of very exciting things.

Carla Araujo is from Campina Grande, Brazil and is working on her Master’s degree at the Federal University of Campina Grande. She implemented Puppet at the Distributed Systems Laboratory there as part of a final project. Carla will be working on a Puppet type to create and manage the full life cycle of virtual machines using libvirt.

William Van Hevelingen is from Newberg, Oregon and is studying towards his Bachelor’s at Portland State University where he is a member of the Computer Action Team that handles IT for the College of Engineering (who are also big Puppet users, go Vikings!). Here’s his blog. William will be working a Puppet type to manage advanced provisioning and configuration of network interfaces (initially on various distributions of Linux).

Please welcome both of our GSOC students! You should see both of them on the development list in the near future. GSOC starts in full on May 24th.

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