On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Tom Stellard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > It's time again for Google Summer of Code, so we need to start > updating the X.Org ideas page > (http://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas) with new ideas. Since there > have been a few issues with the wikis lately, if you have any ideas > please respond to this thread, and I will make sure they get onto the > official ideas page (but still feel free to update the wiki page > yourself if you can). A good project description should contain: > > - A brief description of the project > - A difficulty rating (e.g. easy, medium, hard) > - The skills / programming languages required > > Also, I am going to purge all the old ideas from the ideas page in the > next week, so if there are any of the old ideas that you think are > still relevant, let me know and I will keep it. > > The ideas page is used as one of the criteria by Google for selecting > mentoring organizations and part of the reason X.Org was not selected > last year was that the ideas page was not up to par, so if we want to > participate in Google Summer of Code this year, it is important we > have a good ideas page with lots of ideas.
Shatter support for the Xserver (Xinerama replacement) Difficulty: Hard Skills Required: C, Xserver knowledge Helpful, but optional skills: GPU driver development Possible Mentor: Dave Airlie Where to ask questions: [email protected], #xorg-devel on irc.freenode.net Description: This project would involve adding an impedance layer to the X server to divide rendering between multiple GPUs each covering different areas of a larger desktop. For more details: http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2013/ogv/Teaching_the_X_server_new_tricks.ogv _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
