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9 @setchapternewpage off | |
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11 @titlepage | |
12 @title GNU Task List | |
5120 | 13 @author Free Software Foundation |
5119 | 14 @author last updated @value{lastupdate} |
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19 @top GNU Task List |
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24 tasks. |
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27 @menu | |
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28 * Intro:: |
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29 * Highest Priority:: |
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30 * Documentation:: |
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31 * Unix-Related Projects:: |
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32 * Kernel Projects:: |
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33 * Extensions:: |
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35 * Network Projects:: |
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37 * Other Projects:: |
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38 * Languages:: |
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40 * Games and Recreations:: |
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15866 | 44 @chapter About the GNU Task List |
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49 list is available there in several different formats: @file{tasks.text}, |
18588 | 50 @file{tasks.texi}, @file{tasks.info}, and @file{tasks.dvi}. The GNU |
51 HURD task list is also there in file @file{tasks.hurd}. | |
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53 The task list is also available on the GNU World Wide Web server: |
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54 @uref{http://www.gnu.org/prep/tasks_toc.html}. |
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57 know. We might have information that could help you; we'd also like to |
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58 send you the GNU coding standards. |
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15866 | 60 Because of the natural tendency for most volunteers to write programming |
61 tools or programming languages, we have a comparative shortage of | |
62 applications useful for non-programmer users. Therefore, we ask you to | |
63 consider writing such a program. | |
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66 the GNU project, and the free software community, more than an |
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67 improvement to an existing program. |
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69 Typically, new features or new programs advance the free software |
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70 community more, in the long run, than porting existing programs. One |
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71 reason is that portable new features and programs benefit people on many |
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72 platforms, not just one. At the same time, there tend to be many |
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73 volunteers for porting---so your help will be more valuable in other |
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74 areas, where volunteers are more scarce. |
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77 to improve performance. Users who use the new functionality will |
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78 appreciate it very much, if they use it; but even when they benefit from |
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79 a performance improvement, they may not consider it very important. |
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32527 | 81 Finally, if you think of an important job that free software cannot |
82 solve yet that is typically solved by proprietary software, please send | |
83 a short description of that job to @email{tasks@@gnu.org} so that we can | |
84 add it to this task list. | |
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94 But if you would like to work on what we need most, here is a list of |
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97 @itemize @bullet |
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100 A new maintainer is needed for Goose | |
35986 | 101 @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/goose/goose.html}. |
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104 If you are good at writing documentation, please do that. |
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107 If you are very good at C programming and interested in kernels, you can |
18588 | 108 help develop the GNU HURD, the kernel for the GNU system. Please have a |
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18588 | 110 then get a copy of the latest HURD task list from: |
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119 @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tasks/tasks.hurd}, via anonymous FTP. |
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127 If you are a Scheme fan, you can help develop Guile. Please have a look | |
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145 Help develop software to emulate Windows NT on top of GNU systems. |
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162 Develop a free compatible replacement for Qt, a GUI toolkit library. Qt |
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167 But some developers are writing free applications that use Qt and cannot |
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171 This is leading to a serious problem, and a free replacement for Qt is |
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374 files without reading entire files into core. | |
375 | |
376 @item | |
377 An @code{nroff} macro package to simplify @code{texi2roff}. | |
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379 @item | |
380 A queueing system for the mailer Smail that groups pending work by | |
381 destination rather than by original message. This makes it possible | |
382 to schedule retries coherently for each destination. Talk to | |
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481 GPL-covered implemention of a version of SSL that you can use as a | |
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540 Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs, | |
541 Ronald M. Baecker and Aaron Marcus, | |
542 Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10745-7 | |
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599 @c Mario Lang <lang@zid.tu-graz.ac.at> reports that Festival needs only | |
600 @c to be 2-5 times faster to work well with Emacspeak. | |
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603 This might be done by optimizing Festival. | |
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627 (A clone of SPSS is being written already.) | |
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645 @c no URL yet, the status is updated in @file{volunteers} | |
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647 @item | |
648 A program for voting and tabulating election results. | |
649 | |
650 @end ignore | |
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658 @c ToutDoux aims to do this. | |
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674 scanning documents with multiple fonts and capturing font info as well | |
14803 | 675 as character codes. Work is being done on this, but more help is needed. |
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678 @c Luis Cearra <luisjc@lem.eui.upm.es>, http://lem.eui.upm.es/ocre.html | |
679 @c The status of these projects is updated in @file{/gd/gnuorg/volunteers} | |
680 | |
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35986 | 682 A program to scan a line drawing and convert it to editable Postscript, |
683 or some other editable format. | |
5119 | 684 |
685 @item | |
35986 | 686 A program to recognize handwriting (we don't believe PocketLinux's |
687 handwriting capability is ready for non-PocketLinux environments, yet). | |
688 | |
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690 @item | |
32527 | 691 A program that can translate from one natural language, into another. |
692 For example, a program to translate French into English. | |
693 | |
694 @item | |
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704 @item | |
705 A database program designed to store and retrieve patent information. | |
706 | |
707 @item | |
708 A free software package to run on a Palm Pilot in place of its usual | |
709 software, doing more or less the usual jobs. (Linux, the kernel, has | |
710 apparently been ported, but according to what we hear this port is not | |
711 useful yet.) | |
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736 @chapter Education | |
737 | |
738 Programs for studying, teaching or doing administrative tasks in schools. | |
739 See @uref{http://www.gnu.org/education/} for additional information. | |
740 | |
741 @itemize @bullet | |
742 @item | |
743 A programm to organize automatically the schedule of a school given | |
744 constraints about teachers, rooms, times, and students. | |
745 | |
746 @item | |
747 A program to edit dance notation (such as labanotation) and display | |
748 dancers moving on the screen. Gepetto does some of this work. Contact | |
749 @email{gvc@@gnu.org} if you are interested in helping finish the job. | |
750 | |
751 @end itemize | |
752 | |
753 @node Games and Recreations, , Education, Top | |
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774 A Hierarchical Task Network package which can be used |
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775 to program play the computer's side in various strategic games. |
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32527 | 778 A game like Mill/Nine Men's Morris. |
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780 @item | |
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781 Write imitations of some popular video games: |
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785 Space war, Asteroids, Pong, Columns. | |
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787 Defending cities from missiles. | |
788 @item | |
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789 Plane shoots at lots of other planes, tanks, etc. |
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791 Wizard fights fanciful monsters. |
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793 A golf game. | |
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794 @ignore Being done by jhall1@isd.net |
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796 Program a robot by sticking building blocks together, | |
797 then watch it explore a world. | |
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800 Biomorph evolution (as in Scientific American and @cite{The Blind |
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801 Watchmaker}). |
5119 | 802 @end itemize |
803 @end itemize | |
804 | |
805 We do not need @code{rogue}, as we have @code{hack}. | |
806 | |
807 @contents | |
808 | |
809 @bye | |
32527 | 810 @c LocalWords: dir texi lastupdate uref http www org html helpgnu ifinfo ftp |
811 @c LocalWords: dvi hurd toc gvc URL GTK XmHTML xs nl ripley NT com gettext Qt | |
812 @c LocalWords: GUI libstdc Docbook SGML libc sed STL Gforth GNUstep TCSH Perl | |
813 @c LocalWords: Ghostscript PIC GCC Texinfo grep dc bc ethernet GDB IP CIFS CU | |
814 @c LocalWords: SMB SVGA Khoros Automake OpenStep diff roff Smail tron veritas | |
815 @c LocalWords: cxref ctrace API LilyPond xephem labanotation LessTif outliner | |
816 @c LocalWords: Hypercard morphing SeeMe ICQ Diffie Helman RSA SSLv TLSv GPL | |
817 @c LocalWords: OpenBIOS BIOS LILO dbase dbased Harbour harbour WYSIWYG ISBN | |
818 @c LocalWords: TruePrint Baecker siff sif cs arizona edu TR ps mt sulaco MP | |
819 @c LocalWords: RTSP MPEG jasonw ariel ucs unimelb AU stutz dsl TCL Javascript | |
820 @c LocalWords: Rexx GnuGo jhall isd Biomorph regexp eval gd gnuorg | |
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821 Local variables: |
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822 update-date-leading-regexp: "@c This date is automagically updated when you save this file:\n@set lastupdate " |
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825 eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'update-date) |
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