GSOC 2026: intro and proof of work

Hello, My name is Mostafa Abdelglel, I am third year Computer Engineering student at Cairo University, I am interested in low level/hardware programming and operating systems, I have done projects related to these topics throughout my years in college like kernel processor scheduler, 5-stage pipelined RISC-V processor.
I have set up the dev environment
Here is my hello world modification for GSOC 2026.
test run screen:

run screen:

patch for the change:

From e65f0294b9cd07d2144a9a9048dfa80a1a7a7b1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mostafa <14712022100624@stud.cu.edu.eg>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 22:27:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] refactor: change the print hello world statement to prove
 work

---
 testsuites/samples/hello/init.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/testsuites/samples/hello/init.c b/testsuites/samples/hello/init.c
index 76b939818a..28082fd31a 100644
--- a/testsuites/samples/hello/init.c
+++ b/testsuites/samples/hello/init.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static rtems_task Init( rtems_task_argument ignored )
 
   rtems_print_printer_fprintf_putc( &rtems_test_printer );
   TEST_BEGIN();
-  printf( "Hello World\n" );
+  printf( "Hello from the other side\n" );
   TEST_END();
   rtems_test_exit( 0 );
 }
-- 
2.39.5

I am currently reading through the “Re-import Shell Commands” and “Add support for C11 Annex K Bounds Checking Functions” project ideas.
I plan to investigate some of the bugs as a starting point for my contribution in the RTEMS project.

Thanks, please set your git config user.name to your name (Mostafa Abdelglel), and you can add yourself to tracking/2026 · main · RTEMS / Programs / Google Summer of Code · GitLab