[Ns-developers] Google Summer of Code wrapup

[Tom Henderson]

This past weekend, Sam Jansen and I attended the Google Summer of Code 
Mentor Summit, which was the final event in the 2008 version of GSOC. 
As we bring GSOC to a close this year, I wanted to recognize and thank 
those who made it a success for ns-3.

First, our students.  Florian Westphal integrated Sam's Network 
Simulation Cradle, and his code has already been merged to the main tree 
in ns-3.2.  Liu Jian took on an ambitious task on real world application 
integration, and the bulk of his netlink code will be merged as part of 
the ns-3-simu merge later, although the full support of quagga routing 
software turned out to be beyond what we could finish this summer. 
Hagen Paul Pfeifer started an MPI parallelization project that I hope 
will be picked up and finished in the future.  Hopefully, the students 
learned some things and enjoyed the experience as well.

Mentoring and administering the program was a lot of work, and I'd like 
to thank our mentors (Mathieu, Sam, George, and Joe) for their efforts. 
On top of mentoring, I'd like to especially recognize the job that 
Mathieu did as organizational admin, which was a heavy workload to get 
things off the ground, and Joe also helped a lot early on.

Thanks again to all, and to Google for sponsoring the program,
Tom