Too late? Applications aren't even being accepted yet. (And they are accepted for ~2 weeks.)
For ideas, see http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas Matt On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Matthew Tippett <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael, > > Though probably too late for this cycle it would be great to get > Phoronix to gather ideas foe google summer of Code ideas. > > > > > > On 20-Mar-09, at 11:54 PM, Joseph Adams <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello, I'm Joey Adams, and I'm interested in participating as a >> student in Google Summer of Code with X.Org. I hope to learn how to >> develop for and contribute to Xorg, and GSoC is just the thing to get >> me started. >> >> I'm particularly interested in working in the area of drivers, though >> working anywhere on Xorg will be just as rad. I envision buying a new >> computer with a video card that needs attention, then spending my >> summer unlocking its (and my) potential. >> >> I'd like to discuss what would be a good project. I'm leaning toward >> picking up a recent nvidia card and doing one of the items mentioned >> at http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ToDo . >> >> >> Primary reasons I'm interested in Google Summer of Code with X.Org >> (not necessarily in order): >> >> Power >> Money >> C >> Community >> >> Power- Coming through Google Summer of Code successfully should give >> me a much more intimate understanding of the X.Org internals. Having >> this will enable me to improve the drivers I want to use, which will >> help out others as well. >> >> Money- Who doesn't want $4,500? :) Money will be a major motivation >> for me, as it will help me get a car and a faster computer, both of >> which I sorely need :) >> >> C- Ever since I learned C, I have not been very inclined to learn >> scripting languages like Python, Perl, PHP, etc. They're not fast. C >> is fast :) Unfortunately for me, a lot of major upstream projects are >> using the three Ps. I should probably learn them, but I suppose the >> C-less years of my youth (Hypertalk, Visual Basic 5, TI-BASIC) were >> too much for me :) The fact that Xorg is in C increments my desire to >> work with it. >> >> Community- I'm not very active as a contributor in any specific >> programming community. Learning X and becoming a regular contributor >> would be really neat. >> >> >> My X background: >> >> No real programming successes, yet. I have had multiple forays into >> the code, but nothing major has come of it. I tried to get the Cirrus >> 7543 chipset on my really old Pentium 1 laptop to work on a recent >> Xorg (support for it was dropped in XFree86 4 after stuff got >> reorganized) by looking at the XFree86 3 driver and shotgun-changing a >> more current version. I succeeded in getting the gray background and >> cursor, but it freezes after that. I really didn't know what I was >> doing. I also looked into speeding up a Radeon 9250 card on my PC, >> but I was clueless. >> >> I bought an eMac G4 late last year to test PowerPC stuff, and X didn't >> work. I shot an e-mail to this list, and Alex Deucher came to the >> rescue (see >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02854.html >> to read the unabridged epic). He asked me to do tests with the >> connector table. In the end, it worked fantastically. Plus, I >> learned I could set my eMac's monitor to arbitrary resolutions (e.g. >> 1920x1200, well beyond the advertised 1280x960) using custom modelines >> generated with gtf. >> >> >> Thanks for reading my rambling :) Hopefully it gives any potential >> mentors a better idea of what I know. >> _______________________________________________ >> xorg mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
