On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Andrew Hudson <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Here are a list of development ideas, more oriented to application porting: > Application porting is a less common topic for GSOC, most ports are simple and can be done in a week (or much less). That being said, there are some apps large enough for GSOC (last year, a Go port was one of the projects). > Haiku 64-bit – more apps > Not really a GSOC project as it's not hard, just tedious and time-consuming -- it's more suited for GCI tasks. Blender – a 3D graphics application > Could be a GSOC project, but since we have no hardware accelerator it's probably not very useful. > POV RAY - a 3D graphics application > IIRC, PovRay is just a CLI and does its rendering entirely in software, this is doable in a day or so I think. (It runs on systems with far fewer requirements than most other apps, e.g. the Wii). > Handbrake – arguably the best open source video transcoder > Mostly a frontend to FFmpeg, I think, and it requires GTK so we can't port it. (a GTK port might be a good topic for a GSOC project though :D) > VLC – arguably the best open source media player > Jessica has a WIP port, just needs some more patching. Won't take a whole summer to do. > Minecraft – arguably the best Java gaming environment > Can't. Minecraft uses some proprietary libraries that tie into Java that we have no source code for. > Whisper BeNet – Voice and video conferencing application > What would a GSOC project focused around this do? > IPv6 – update to the latest internet communications protocol > We already have an IPv6 module for the kernel, and Adrien is working on that right now. -Augustin