Re: Student interested in Gsoc (Nmap Cloud Scanning Platform)

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:27:08AM -0500, Daniel Sarmiento Suarez wrote:
> Hello, I am writing to this list as have not received any replies on
> the Soc mailing list
>
> I am a student interested in participating in this year's Google
> Summer of Code.
>
> I have been looking at the ideas page, and believe that I will be able
> to help in completing the  Nmap Cloud Scanning Platform,as it is
> developed in Python and uses the Django framework.
>
> I would really appreciate if I could get some information regarding
> this project (I have already downloaded the source code), in order to
> submit a good proposal.

I don't know much about the cloud scanner in particular, but you can
take a look at Alexandru's status reports from when he wrote it.

http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2010/q2/author.html#author_alexandru
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2010/q3/author.html#author_alexandru

Downloading the source code shows good initiative. It will be valuable
if you can keep notes as you use it as to what was hard to do or what
doesn't make sense. It's helpful when someone with fresh eyes tries out
a project and makes such suggestions.

David Fifield
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