---
title: "GSOC or Having a go at Network Simulator"
url: "http://andrewbolster.info/2010/03/gsoc-or-having-a-go-at-network-simulator/"
date: "2010-03-12T15:03:03Z"
tags: ["Academia","Apache","Debian","Drupal","KDE","Linux","Networking","PhD","Programming","Simulation","Ubuntu","Configuration","Installation","virtualisation"]
categories: ["Uni"]
---

I had been looking at this years [Google Summer Of Code](http://code.google.com/soc/) google [group](http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-discuss) and saw the [list of  organisations](http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t-XzUSGaMoJIM9lPmCMVezA&output=html) that are getting involved. While i was alooking at it, I knew i didn’t want to even consider the big boys (I’m looking at you, [Debian](http://debian-community.org/planets/), [Drupal](http://drupal.org/contributors-guide), [KDE](http://www.kdedevelopers.org/), [Apache](http://www.apache.org/dev/), [X.Org](http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide), etc), they’re too big to get my teeth into, and I’m currently in the throws of ‘WHAT THE HELL AM I GOING TO DO MY FINAL YEAR PROJECT ON!!! ’ (For any Americans, that means ‘dissertation’).

My [university](http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/eeecs/) is big into networking etc, so I had a look at the [NS-3 Network Simulator](http://www.nsnam.org/), which currently sits at slightly less that 2 million lines of code, and is vaguinly within my realm of interest so I’m going to see a) if i can get it to work and play with it for a bit and b) if i can contribute anything to the project and parlay that into a final year project, and I’ll be documenting whatever progress I get on this blog.

I doubt that I’ll apply to [GSOC](http://code.google.com/soc/) as I don’t think I’d be able to give the required time committment over the summer. :(

Anyway, Next blog post will be a start into the installation and configuration of NS-3 on my virtualised Ubuntu setup.