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2 @c %**start of header | |
3 @setfilename tasks.info | |
4 @settitle GNU Task List | |
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48554 | 6 @set lastupdate October 24, 2002 |
5119 | 7 @c %**end of header |
8 | |
48554 | 9 @c On behalf of the Volunteer Coordinators, I humbly request that anyone |
10 @c who adds an entry to this file please add a pointer to some more info | |
11 @c about that project. People ask us (gvc@gnu.org) for more information | |
12 @c about these projects and it's embarrassing to ask around and find out | |
13 @c that nobody remembers what the project was supposed to be, or do. | |
14 @c We don't need a huge elaborate ISO-9001 document, just a couple of | |
15 @c paragraphs or a URL or something that explains what the e.g. ``stalker'' | |
16 @c project should do. It will save us all time in the future. | |
17 @c Thanks, toby@gnu.org | |
18 @c April 27, 2002 | |
19 | |
20 @dircategory GNU organization | |
21 @direntry | |
22 * Tasks: (tasks). GNU task list. | |
23 @end direntry | |
24 | |
5119 | 25 @setchapternewpage off |
26 | |
48554 | 27 @copying |
28 The GNU task list, last updated @value{lastupdate}. | |
29 | |
30 Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, | |
31 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
32 | |
33 @quotation | |
34 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, | |
35 are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright | |
36 notice and this notice are preserved. | |
37 @end quotation | |
38 @end copying | |
39 | |
5119 | 40 @titlepage |
41 @title GNU Task List | |
5120 | 42 @author Free Software Foundation |
5119 | 43 @author last updated @value{lastupdate} |
48554 | 44 @page |
45 @vskip 0pt plus 1filll | |
46 @insertcopying | |
5119 | 47 @end titlepage |
48 | |
48554 | 49 @contents |
50 | |
51 @ifnottex | |
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53 @top GNU Task List |
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56 | |
57 See also | |
58 @uref{http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html#helpgnu} for other suggested tasks. | |
59 @end ifnottex | |
5119 | 60 |
61 @menu | |
48554 | 62 * Intro:: |
63 * Highest Priority:: | |
64 * Documentation:: | |
65 * Unix-Related Projects:: | |
66 * Kernel Projects:: | |
67 * Extensions:: | |
68 * Java Projects:: | |
69 * X Windows Projects:: | |
70 * Network Projects:: | |
71 * Encryption Projects:: | |
72 * Other Projects:: | |
73 * Languages:: | |
74 * Education:: | |
75 * Games and Recreations:: | |
5119 | 76 @end menu |
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15866 | 79 @chapter About the GNU Task List |
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92 send you the GNU coding standards. |
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15866 | 94 Because of the natural tendency for most volunteers to write programming |
95 tools or programming languages, we have a comparative shortage of | |
96 applications useful for non-programmer users. Therefore, we ask you to | |
97 consider writing such a program. | |
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104 community more, in the long run, than porting existing programs. One |
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107 volunteers for porting---so your help will be more valuable in other |
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112 appreciate it very much, if they use it; but even when they benefit from |
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113 a performance improvement, they may not consider it very important. |
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32527 | 115 Finally, if you think of an important job that free software cannot |
116 solve yet that is typically solved by proprietary software, please send | |
117 a short description of that job to @email{tasks@@gnu.org} so that we can | |
118 add it to this task list. | |
119 | |
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128 But if you would like to work on what we need most, here is a list of |
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131 @itemize @bullet |
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48554 | 135 If you are good at writing documentation, please do that. Pick a system |
136 or program you like, and write a Free tutorial or manual for it. | |
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138 @item |
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141 that as many Docbook tags as possible can be translated into reasonable | |
142 Texinfo. See @uref{http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net/todo.html} for a | |
143 task list of what needs to be done. | |
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145 @item | |
48554 | 146 If you are very good at C programming and interested in kernels, you |
147 can help develop the GNU HURD, the kernel for the GNU system. Please | |
148 have a look at @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html}, and | |
149 then join the HURD mailing lists at | |
150 @uref{http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-contact}. | |
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152 @item | |
153 If you are a Scheme fan, you can help develop Guile. Please have a look | |
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48554 | 155 and then contact the Guile developers at @email{guile-devel@@gnu.org}. |
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32527 | 158 Improve the facilities for translating other languages into Scheme, |
159 so that Guile can provide support for a variety of languages. | |
160 | |
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167 DVI, PDF, HTML, RTF, Word format and Word Perfect format. | |
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170 Help develop software to emulate Windows NT on top of GNU systems. |
48554 | 171 For example, you could help work on Wine. |
172 See @uref{http://www.winehq.org/}. | |
173 | |
174 @ignore | |
175 @c panda is a PDF generator library released under the GPL | |
176 @c http://www.stillhq.com/cgi-bin/getpage?area=panda&page=index.htm | |
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178 A free replacement for pdflib. This is a library for generating PDF. | |
179 @end ignore | |
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182 Add gettext support to GNU programs that don't have it already. (Please | |
183 contact the developers of the specific packages that you want to work | |
48554 | 184 on.) |
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192 @node Documentation, Unix-Related Projects, Highest Priority, Top |
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200 software does not count: we are not free to copy and modify them. |
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203 @itemize @bullet | |
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206 A reference document for SQL for use as a standard for implementors of | |
207 free software versions of SQL. | |
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214 @c the Indian TeX Users Group has completed a freely distributable version of a LaTex manual - http://www.tug.org.in/tutorials.html | |
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398 files without reading entire files into core. | |
399 | |
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401 An @code{nroff} macro package to simplify @code{texi2roff}. | |
402 | |
403 @item | |
404 A queueing system for the mailer Smail that groups pending work by | |
405 destination rather than by original message. This makes it possible | |
406 to schedule retries coherently for each destination. Talk to | |
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415 | |
416 @item | |
417 The GNU Classpath Extensions project is looking for help. classpathx | |
418 builds free versions of Sun's java extension libraries, the packages | |
419 in the javax namespace. | |
420 | |
421 @item | |
422 Write a replacement for the javadoc utility. The Classpath | |
423 (@uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath}) team has already made a | |
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435 | |
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32527 | 439 A package that emulates the API of Visual C++'s Foundation Classes |
440 (MFC), but operates on top of X11. It need not match the screen | |
441 appearance provided by MFC. Instead, it would be best to use GTK, so as | |
442 to give coherence with GNOME. | |
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510 | |
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512 @c if anyone knows what this means please send email to gvc@gnu.org | |
513 @item | |
514 Free software like Stalker for operating a web server for email | |
515 services. | |
516 @end ignore | |
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538 distribution terms compatible with the GNU GPL. We know of a | |
539 GPL-covered implemention of a version of SSL that you can use as a | |
540 starting point. | |
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561 @ignore | |
562 @c vcg as of version 1.30 (current as of 2002-10-24) is GPL | |
563 @c toby 2002-10-24 | |
564 @item | |
565 A library for automatic graph layout. VCG version 1.0, which was free | |
566 software, might provide a base for this. | |
567 @end ignore | |
568 | |
569 @item | |
570 A data visualization program along the lines of xgobi or ggobi. | |
571 | |
572 @item | |
573 A graph visualization program, which would use that library and | |
574 provide a front end for manual and interactive intervention so as to | |
575 provide a full substitute for equivalent proprietory software. It | |
576 would be good to support DOT format as input, and perhaps other | |
577 formats. | |
578 | |
579 @c Such proprietary software is daVinci and graphviz, but are uncommon enough | |
580 @c that we don't mention them here publicly. | |
581 @c http://www.research.att.com/~erg/graphviz/info/lang.html | |
582 @c Some useful information about graph drawing programs can be found here | |
583 @c http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/gdlinks.html | |
584 | |
585 @c At the time of making this entry, VCG's website was | |
586 @c http://rw4.cs.uni-sb.de/users/sander/html/gsvcg1.html | |
587 | |
588 @item | |
589 | |
590 A ``one stop shopping system'' for advocates involved with social | |
591 justice or other non-profit campaigns. The idea would be to create an | |
592 easy-to-use interface to software that would allow someone to register a | |
593 domain for their organisation, build a website, and set up mailing | |
594 lists. The software would need options to easily do all this, and be | |
595 made easy for non-hackers. Mainly the work would involve bringing | |
596 together a number of existing tools with an overriding configuration | |
597 program. | |
598 | |
599 @ignore LinuxBIOS is doing this | |
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617 @item | |
24888 | 618 An imitation of @code{dbase2} or @code{dbase3}. (How dbased!) |
32527 | 619 Harbour, a free replacement for Clipper, would provide a useful start. |
620 @uref{http://www.harbour-project.org/}. | |
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642 @display | |
643 Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs, | |
644 Ronald M. Baecker and Aaron Marcus, | |
645 Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10745-7 | |
646 @end display | |
647 | |
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689 because there is a large corpus of data encoded in this format. We | |
690 ask that you encode audio data in Ogg/Vorbis format since it is | |
691 publically documented and there are Free Software encoders and | |
692 decoders available. | |
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737 (A clone of SPSS is being written already.) | |
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753 @c toby 2002-06-21 | |
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765 @c no URL yet, the status is updated in @file{volunteers} | |
766 | |
767 @item | |
768 A program for voting and tabulating election results. | |
769 | |
770 @end ignore | |
771 | |
48554 | 772 @ignore |
773 @c at least 4 GPL program exist for this purpose (one of | |
774 @c which, gramps, has a GNOME UI): | |
775 @c http://www.gnu.org/search/fsd-search.py?q=geneology | |
776 @c 2002-06-27 toby | |
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48554 | 787 @c also Minkowsky (at least simple project management) - toby |
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14803 | 804 as character codes. Work is being done on this, but more help is needed. |
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807 @c Luis Cearra <luisjc@lem.eui.upm.es>, http://lem.eui.upm.es/ocre.html | |
808 @c The status of these projects is updated in @file{/gd/gnuorg/volunteers} | |
809 | |
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35986 | 811 A program to scan a line drawing and convert it to editable Postscript, |
812 or some other editable format. | |
5119 | 813 |
814 @item | |
48554 | 815 A program to recognize handwriting (we don't believe PocketLinux's |
35986 | 816 handwriting capability is ready for non-PocketLinux environments, yet). |
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32527 | 820 A program that can translate from one natural language, into another. |
821 For example, a program to translate French into English. | |
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831 A database program designed to store and retrieve patent information. | |
832 | |
833 @item | |
834 A free software package to run on a Palm Pilot in place of its usual | |
835 software, doing more or less the usual jobs. (Linux, the kernel, has | |
836 apparently been ported, but according to what we hear this port is not | |
837 useful yet.) | |
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865 @chapter Education | |
866 | |
867 Programs for studying, teaching or doing administrative tasks in schools. | |
868 See @uref{http://www.gnu.org/education/} for additional information. | |
869 | |
870 @itemize @bullet | |
871 @item | |
48554 | 872 A program to organize automatically the schedule of a school given |
35986 | 873 constraints about teachers, rooms, times, and students. |
874 | |
875 @item | |
876 A program to edit dance notation (such as labanotation) and display | |
877 dancers moving on the screen. Gepetto does some of this work. Contact | |
878 @email{gvc@@gnu.org} if you are interested in helping finish the job. | |
879 | |
880 @end itemize | |
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32527 | 942 @c LocalWords: dir texi lastupdate uref http www org html helpgnu ifinfo ftp |
943 @c LocalWords: dvi hurd toc gvc URL GTK XmHTML xs nl ripley NT com gettext Qt | |
944 @c LocalWords: GUI libstdc Docbook SGML libc sed STL Gforth GNUstep TCSH Perl | |
945 @c LocalWords: Ghostscript PIC GCC Texinfo grep dc bc ethernet GDB IP CIFS CU | |
946 @c LocalWords: SMB SVGA Khoros Automake OpenStep diff roff Smail tron veritas | |
947 @c LocalWords: cxref ctrace API LilyPond xephem labanotation LessTif outliner | |
948 @c LocalWords: Hypercard morphing SeeMe ICQ Diffie Helman RSA SSLv TLSv GPL | |
949 @c LocalWords: OpenBIOS BIOS LILO dbase dbased Harbour harbour WYSIWYG ISBN | |
950 @c LocalWords: TruePrint Baecker siff sif cs arizona edu TR ps mt sulaco MP | |
951 @c LocalWords: RTSP MPEG jasonw ariel ucs unimelb AU stutz dsl TCL Javascript | |
952 @c LocalWords: Rexx GnuGo jhall isd Biomorph regexp eval gd gnuorg | |
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48554 | 955 eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp) |
956 time-stamp-start: "@set lastupdate " | |
957 time-stamp-end: "$" | |
958 time-stamp-format: "%:b %:d, %:y" | |
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962 @ignore | |
963 arch-tag: 7ed10085-fa7c-47d4-9ed5-39e885603e5c | |
964 @end ignore |