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<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>