Google / X.Org Summer of Code 2009: Ideas Wanted

[Donnie Berkholz]

On 23:17 Thu 12 Mar     , Barton C Massey wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> Tonight I'm submitting X.Org's application to become a
> mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2009.  As
> you may know, X.Org was previously a mentoring organization
> in 2006, 2007 and 2008.  For more information on Summer of
> Code, see http://code.google.com/soc .
> 
> What we need from the community is a visible list of Summer
> of Code project ideas and people willing to mentor those
> ideas.  That list is being accumulated at
> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas , and the
> faster we fill it with really good stuff, the greater our
> chances are of once again being accepted to mentor for
> Summer of Code and the more and better student applicants we
> will have.

Pretty much everything from http://wiki.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas2008 
is still valid. There's also http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ToDo and 
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/SummerOfCode

Some new ideas presented by folks on IRC:

- VDPAU on Gallium

- libpciaccess port to HURD

- r600 support on Gallium

- XGrabKeysym(), probably as part of Xi2, so clients don't have to 
monitor for keymap changes on hotplug/xmodmap

- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11227 (allow >255 
keycodes)

- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=931 (replacing libxkbfile 
with something less crusty)

- merging xkbcomp into the server

- true multi-touch support in X. though that'd require whot to get XI2 
done first...

- something to replace XEvIE in the new input world

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
X team lead, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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