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authorGravatar Nathaniel Manista <nathaniel@google.com>2016-02-23 17:17:05 +0000
committerGravatar Nathaniel Manista <nathaniel@google.com>2016-02-23 17:17:05 +0000
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Hello students!
-We want gRPC to be the universal protocol for all computing platforms and
-paradigms, so while these are our ideas of what we think would make good
-projects for the summer, we're eager to hear your ideas and proposals as well.
-Try us out and get to know the gRPC code and team!
+We want gRPC to be the universal remote procedure call protocol for all
+computing platforms and paradigms, so while these are our ideas of what we
+think would make good projects for the summer, we're eager to hear your ideas
+and proposals as well.
+[Try us out](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) and get
+to know the gRPC code and team!
**Required skills for all projects:** git version control, collaborative
software development on github.com, and software development in at least one
@@ -15,7 +17,7 @@ of gRPC's ten languages on at least one of Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
gRPC C Core:
-1. Port gRPC to one of the major BSD platforms ([FreeBSD](https://freebsd.org), [NetBSD](https://netbsd.org), and [OpenBSD](https://openbsd.org)) and create packages for them. Add kqueue support in the process.
+1. Port gRPC to one of the major BSD platforms ([FreeBSD](https://freebsd.org), [NetBSD](https://netbsd.org), and [OpenBSD](https://openbsd.org)) and create packages for them. Add [kqueue](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kqueue) support in the process.
* **Required skills:** C programming language, BSD operating system.
* **Likely mentors:** [Craig Tiller](https://github.com/ctiller), [Nicolas Noble](https://github.com/nicolasnoble).
1. Fix gRPC C-core's URI parser. The current parser does not qualify as a standard parser according to [RFC3986]( https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986). Write test suites to verify this and make changes necessary to make the URI parser compliant.