Projects/TaskList

Aim

To help students start contributing to Free Software.

Ideas

1. Add a feature to gnome games so that it pauses the game when focus is moved from the game window (gnome mines already have it)
   • Steps
     1. Checkout gnome games svn start here
     2. Locate the timer implementation
2. Associate seahorse with .sig files (detached gpg signature) and add functionality in seahorse to handle this and verify
3. Make DHCP client smarter while booting - first check whether network cable is present before requesting DHCP ip
4. Make thunderbird new mail alarm bit more friendly. When you click on a subject in the new mail notifier it should open the mail in a new window.
5. Show unicode characters in firefox address bar. Now it shows % escaped values
6. Add unicode support to sIFR (Free Software answer to font embedding problem).
7. Add sIRF support to gnash (currently you cannot select sIRF text from gnash
8. Build a cross debootstrap root file system for hurd. debootstrap is debian package to create root file systems from debian packages.
9. Add Kannada support to Sarika, first Free Software Indian language speech recognition system
10. Add Hindi support to Sarika
11. Tune Sarika to understand Dhvani, text to speech system for Indian languages
12. Create a jhbuild moduleset to build debian packages from gnome 2.20 tarballs. Jhbuild is a build tool used for building big projects which has lot of different dependent packages
13. Create a jhbuild module for a small bootable root filesystem
14. Create a smtp translator for GNU/Hurd. Send an email when you copy a file and file.address to the directory
15. Join Mediawiki, Firefox and Open Office to transparently edit wiki pages in WYSIWYG mode.
16. Lightning calendar extension to be linked with system calendar.