[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2006, 2008, 2011 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]]."]]"""]] [[!meta date="2006-04-27"]] <p>The GNU 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 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 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>