What about Mozilla? There are many outstanding Hebrew-related bugs, that
are waiting for fixes. I guess most of the semester will be spent getting
"in" the code, and the rest on producing a fix.

The list of outstanding BiDi bugs is the depenancies of this meta-bug:
  http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115707
  http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=115707
One annoying bug is this one:
  http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174470

  Alon

> I was told that Tel-Aviv University is giving an interesting workshop
> this summer: a workshop on writing free software. See:
>
> http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~eddiea/workshop-summer-2003.html
>
> According to that page, the students will be taught a bit about Linux and
> free software (including a lecture by our esteemed friend, Muli), and then
> asked to write software in small 2-3 person teams, using open source and
> free software methodologies.
>
> Needless to say, if we (the community) are "given" a bunch of bright students,
> it would be great if instead of writing the N+1th free tetris clone they
> would actually work on something the community needs - perhaps even something
> that the Israeli community needs.
>
> Like is written in the aforementioned page, good free software usually stems
> from a real needs. But it is likely that most of these students used Linux
> very little (if at all) and are unlikely to know what is really needed.
> I'm sure the teacher of the workshop will give them ideas, but I thought it
> would be nice if people on this list could also raise ideas for project,
> and I'll pass them on to the students (I know one of them).
>
> Please read the workshop's page for what the projects have to be. In short,
> it should be something that 2-3 people can do in a relaxed summer, something
> useful and non-trivial, something that involves programming (it cannot be only
> about translation, for example). It would be nice if the project had an added
> value for the Israeli community, but it can also be something which has
> nothing to do with Israel.
>
> I hope that other universities will follow TAU in this nice initiative.
>
>

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