Laureen Caliman - RTEMS Proof of Work GSoC '26

[lcaliman]

Ciao, my name is Laureen Caliman and I am a Computer Engineering Student. I am interested in contributing to an RTEMS project for GSoC '26. Embedded systems is the niche I want to get into, particularly for the hardware-software of machines that will be sent up LEO and beyond, so I find RTEMS as the perfect start to getting involved.

My experience in C has been primarily academic, but I intend to strengthen my skills by the time GSoC starts. After all, being in CompE, I must live and breathe C since so much core infrastructure depends on it.

Most of my personal projects have been written in Rust and C++. I daily drive Arch Linux, and am a contributor to an open-source Arch Linux quality-of-life Rust toolchain. Here are some projects that I published on GitHub (EmpressStella (Laureen Caliman) · GitHub). I am also affiliated with NASA’s Analysis Working Groups Digital Twin project, and offer assistance where I can, however my focus and interests primarily lie in embedded systems.

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My account would not allow me to upload the respective 001 file, thus I will paste it here below:
From b2bb633891eef41d149c869f88d4cb2f22450d59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: LCaliman laureen0alexa@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:54:56 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Laureen Caliman updated Hello World GSoC

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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…5df9b18fb0 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( “Laureen likes llamas!\n” );
  TEST_END();
  rtems_test_exit( 0 );
  }
  –
  2.53.0

[amar]

Hi there, do you know what error Discourse gave you about uploading the file? Was it that your account was too new or the trust level was too low? Thank you.

[gedare]

Thank you, it looks like your git config user.name may not be correct, please ensure it matches your name for proper author attribution.

[gedare]

After that you can submit (update) your MR to gsoc: Laureen Caliman MR on gsoc/tracking/2026 (!269) · Merge requests · RTEMS / Programs / Google Summer of Code · GitLab and search here for open topics related to your project interests, or start a new topic.

[lcaliman]

Hi Amar, I was just getting an error that the account was too new!

[lcaliman]

I have resolved the author name and fixed my MR. I think my account is still too new to allow edits on my initial post so attached here is the new patch.

[amar]

Thanks I’ve fixed this now.

[lcaliman]

Hi Amar,

I finished my proposal for Port LittleFS (GSoC2026_Caliman_PortLittleFS - Google Docs), I saw your name on the GitLab issue a lot and was wondering if you knew who exactly I can send this to for review and criticism.

Thank you.

[amar]

I’ve added myself and @opticron as a mentor to this. I will look at your proposal in more detail later today. I did update the issue on GitLab which you may want to look at about how this should be imported.

I’m not sure though what you mean by a wiki can you elaborate on this thanks.

[lcaliman]

Ah, I assumed GitLab Wiki will be used for documentation, is that an incorrect assumption?

I did not see a note on the MR, just that it was merged.

[amar]

Yes it is. Just to check you did not read anywhere in our docs that suggested a wiki be used did you? We used to have a wiki, 3 years ago but not anymore.

Our documentation is located at https://docs.rtems.org/ and the source is on our gitlab in rtems-docs.

You will need to adjust your proposal accordingly.

[lcaliman]

I see, I will adjust it accordingly.
My assumption was based on another Discourse thread (GSoC project Interest: LittleFS) mentioning a former student (Sepehr Ganji) who implemented FatFS and to reference his material. I scanned Ganji’s proposal to make sure mine meets expectations, which is where I saw him briefly mention Wiki. I guess it got stuck in the back of my mind as the correct way.

[amar]

I see, his project was last year I’m surprised he mentioned too it must have been in our documentation somewhere.