Introducing the 2007 Nmap/Google Summer of Code Team!

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

Hello everyone.  After weeks of poring through more than 50
applications, I am delighted to introduce the 2007 Nmap/Google Summer
of Code Team!  If you enjoy the new OS detection system, runtime
interaction, or the Nmap Scripting Engine, you are taking advantage of
features developed in a large part by previous Summer of Code
students.  I hope and expect us to make at least as much progress this
year!  Here are the 2007 winners:

You may recall that Diman Todorov worked with me last year as a SoC
student to create the Nmap Scripting Engine, which is available in the
Nmap 4.21ALPHA series.  This year Diman will be mentoring **Stoiko
Ivanov** to improve the system with features such as a standard
library.  Stoiko is a Software & Information Engineering student at
the Vienna University of Technology in Austria.  He plans to graduate
this year, then go on toward an M.S. in Computational Intelligence.

An improved NSE system is of little use without a comprehensive set of
useful and efficient scripts to plug into it.  So Diman will also be
mentoring **Gaveen Prabhasara** to produce clever and valuable scripts
over the summer.  He will likely become more familiar with LUA than
any other Nmap developer.  Gaveen is a student at the IDM Affiliated
University College in Sri Lanka.

While Nmap has some grand projects that take up a whole summer, there
are also many smaller tasks and bug fixes which could take anywhere
from a day to several weeks to complete.  So we have accepted three
"Feature Creeper/Bug Wrangler" positions: **David Fifield**, **Kris
Katterjohn**, and **Edward Bell**.  They will work on tasks such as a
new fixed-rate packet sending engine, migration of the massping()
subsystem to the more efficient ultra_scan(), and perhaps writing a
general purpose proxy scanning engine.  Each of them bring a unique
set of talents, so together they can tackle just about anything on the
Nmap TODO list.

David is a Computer Science and Mathematics double-major in his fourth
year at Metropolitan State College of Denver.  He may be best-known
for his "Gusto" Linux-from-scratch distribution.  You can learn more
about him at http://bamsoftware.com/ .

Kris hardly needs any introduction as he has been a prolific volunteer
Nmap developer and we're delighted to have him on the SoC team.  He is
currently studying Computer Science at Northwest Mississippi Community
College.

Eddie has also become somewhat well known in the Nmap community since
his successful SoC participation last summer.  He created a number of
improvements, including the innovative --traceroute support in the
4.21ALPHA series.  He also created a clever option for concisely
explaining the reason that a port is in the state it is.  For example,
"filtered" could mean that Nmap got no response from a port, or it
could mean that Nmap got an ICMP network unreachable.  Sometimes that
information is quite valuable, and so I hope to merge the patch soon.

Another winner is **Doug Hoyte**, who has done a fantastic job as a
SoC student for each of the last two years, and as a regular Nmap
developer in between.  I can't begin to list all of the improvements
he has made (though you can find them in the changelog), but he
deserves particular credit for improving Nmap version detection.  He
improved the system itself, and has also personally integrated
thousands of your submissions.  We now have an incredible 3,878
signatures covering 425 service protocols, and Doug deserves much of
the credit for that.  Doug will spend the first half of the summer as
a "Feature Creeper", and is reserving the 2nd half to work on his
innovative new Network Universal Frame Forge (http://hcsw.org/nuff/).

In addition to these core Nmap projects, 7 (wow!) students were
sponsored to work on the UMIT Nmap GUI.  UMIT was created by SoC
student Adriano Monteiro in 2005 and 2006 and we hope it will replace
NmapFE this year as the default Nmap GUI.  Google accepted UMIT as an
independent project for SoC sponsorship and Adriano has posted a list
of the 7 accepted students here:

http://umitproject.blogspot.com/

Please join me in welcoming this new team of Nmap SoC students!  Most
of the development will be done on the nmap-dev list, where everybody
is invited to participate in coding, suggesting ideas, testing, etc.
You can subscribe at:

http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev .

Cheers,
Fyodor
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