[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 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="2007-03-14"]] <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 these task proposals or have your own ideas on what to work, then please don't hesitate to contact us on the [[bug-hurd_mailing_list|mailing lists/bug-hurd]] or the [[#hurd_IRC_channel|irc]].</p> <ul> <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; create a <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5470"><em>pfinet6</em></a> to interface to the IPv6 world.</li> <li>Make GNU Mach use more <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5488">up to date <em>device drivers</em></a>.</li> <li>Design and implement a <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5485"><em>sound system</em></a>.</li> <li>Introduce the world of the <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5486"><em>Andrew File System (AFS)</em></a> to the Hurd.</li> <li>Work on enhancing our <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5497"><em>NFS client</em> and <em>NFSd</em></a>.</li> <li>Implement support for <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5499"><em>Logical Volume Management (LVM)</em></a>.</li> </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>