# ReactOS participation in GSoC 2006 Mentor Summit

DevFeed: [ReactOS participation in GSoC 2006 Mentor Summit](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/reactos-participation-in-gsoc-2006-mentor-summit-33222.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-participation-gsoc-2006-mentor-summit/>)

Published: 2006-10-09T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [ReactOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactos.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/win32.md>), [foss](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/foss.md>)

Tags: [collaboration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collaboration.md>), [foss](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/foss.md>), [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [gsoc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gsoc.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [os](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/os.md>), [projects](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/projects.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [reactos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reactos.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>)

## AI overview

The article announces ReactOS participation in the 2006 Google Summer of Code mentor summit. Alex Ionescu will present ReactOS as a platform for targeting, developing, and testing Win32 software, addressing platform-specific bugs and undocumented behavior. The ReactOS Foundation is also considering a long-term division to support collaboration with other FOSS projects.

## Source excerpt

Google conducts GSoC 2006 mentor summit next week In the area of "better collaboration between organizations", Alex Ionescu will present a short talk on ReactOS on the following topics: Targetting, developping and testing Win32 versions of projects on ReactOS. Solving OS-level and other platform-specific bugs. Finding out and dealing with undocumented behaviour. Testing Win32 ports without acquiring a Windows license and spending money on a test environment. The ReactOS Foundation is looking at creating an official long-term "division" responsible for communicating with developers and leaders from other projects.