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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2006, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled
+[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+<p>The GNU&nbsp;Hurd project will participate in this year's <strong>Google
+Summer of Code</strong>, under the aegis of the GNU project.</p>
+
+<p>The following is a list of items you might want to work on.  If you want to
+modify or extend these tasks or have your own ideas what to work on, please
+feel invited to contact us on the
+[[bug-hurd_mailing_list|mailing_lists/bug-hurd]] or
+the [[#hurd_IRC_channel|irc]].</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>Make GNU&nbsp;Mach use more <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5488">up
+to date <em>device drivers</em></a>.</li>
+
+<li>Work on <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5489">GNU&nbsp;Mach's
+<em>IPC / VM system</em></a>.</li>
+
+<li>Design and implement a <a
+href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5485"><em>sound system</em></a>.</li>
+
+<li>Transition the Hurd libraries and servers <a
+href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5487">from <em>cthreads</em> to
+<em>pthreads</em></a>.</li>
+
+<li>Find and implement a reasonable way to make the Hurd servers use <a
+href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5490"><em>syslog</em></a>.</li>
+
+<li>Design and implement <a
+href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?1619"><em>libchannel</em></a>, a library
+for streams.</li>
+
+<li>Rewrite <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5469"><em>pfinet</em></a>,
+our interface to the IPv4 world.</li>
+
+<li>Implement and make the Hurd properly use <a
+href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5503"><em>extended
+attributes</em></a>.</li>
+
+<li>Design / implement / enhance support for the...
+
+  <ul>
+  <li><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5486"><em>Andrew File System
+  (AFS)</em></a>;</li>
+    
+  <li><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5497"><em>NFS client</em> and
+  <em>NFSd</em></a>;</li>
+    
+  <li><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5498"><em>EXT3 file
+  system</em></a>;</li>
+    
+  <li><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5499"><em>Logical Volume Manager
+  (LVM)</em></a>.</li>
+
+  </ul>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>Please see the page <a href="/software/soc-projects/guidelines.html">GNU
+guidelines for Summer of Code projects</a> about how to make an application and
+<a href="/software/soc-projects/ideas.html">Summer of Code project ideas
+list</a> for a list of tasks for various GNU projects and information about
+about how to submit your own ideas for tasks.</p>