Google Summer of Code as a student

[Matthew Tippett]

Michael,

Though probably too late for this cycle it would be great to get  
Phoronix to gather ideas foe google summer  of Code  ideas.





On 20-Mar-09, at 11:54 PM, Joseph Adams <joeyadams3.14159 at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Hello, I'm Joey Adams, and I'm interested in participating as a
> student in Google Summer of Code with X.Org.  I hope to learn how to
> develop for and contribute to Xorg, and GSoC is just the thing to get
> me started.
>
> I'm particularly interested in working in the area of drivers, though
> working anywhere on Xorg will be just as rad.  I envision buying a new
> computer with a video card that needs attention, then spending my
> summer unlocking its (and my) potential.
>
> I'd like to discuss what would be a good project.  I'm leaning toward
> picking up a recent nvidia card and doing one of the items mentioned
> at http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ToDo .
>
>
> Primary reasons I'm interested in Google Summer of Code with X.Org
> (not necessarily in order):
>
> Power
> Money
> C
> Community
>
> Power- Coming through Google Summer of Code successfully should give
> me a much more intimate understanding of the X.Org internals.  Having
> this will enable me to improve the drivers I want to use, which will
> help out others as well.
>
> Money- Who doesn't want $4,500? :)  Money will be a major motivation
> for me, as it will help me get a car and a faster computer, both of
> which I sorely need :)
>
> C- Ever since I learned C, I have not been very inclined to learn
> scripting languages like Python, Perl, PHP, etc.  They're not fast.  C
> is fast :)  Unfortunately for me, a lot of major upstream projects are
> using the three Ps.  I should probably learn them, but I suppose the
> C-less years of my youth (Hypertalk, Visual Basic 5, TI-BASIC) were
> too much for me :)  The fact that Xorg is in C increments my desire to
> work with it.
>
> Community- I'm not very active as a contributor in any specific
> programming community.  Learning X and becoming a regular contributor
> would be really neat.
>
>
> My X background:
>
> No real programming successes, yet.  I have had multiple forays into
> the code, but nothing major has come of it.  I tried to get the Cirrus
> 7543 chipset on my really old Pentium 1 laptop to work on a recent
> Xorg (support for it was dropped in XFree86 4 after stuff got
> reorganized) by looking at the XFree86 3 driver and shotgun-changing a
> more current version.  I succeeded in getting the gray background and
> cursor, but it freezes after that.  I really didn't know what I was
> doing.  I also looked into speeding up a Radeon 9250 card on my PC,
> but I was clueless.
>
> I bought an eMac G4 late last year to test PowerPC stuff, and X didn't
> work.  I shot an e-mail to this list, and Alex Deucher came to the
> rescue (see http://www.mail-archive.com/xorg@lists.freedesktop.org/msg02854.html
> to read the unabridged epic).  He asked me to do tests with the
> connector table.  In the end, it worked fantastically.  Plus, I
> learned I could set my eMac's monitor to arbitrary resolutions (e.g.
> 1920x1200, well beyond the advertised 1280x960) using custom modelines
> generated with gtf.
>
>
> Thanks for reading my rambling :)  Hopefully it gives any potential
> mentors a better idea of what I know.
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