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-@setfilename tasks.info
-@settitle GNU Task List
-@c This date is automagically updated when you save this file:
-@set lastupdate October 24, 2002
-@c %**end of header
-
-@c On behalf of the Volunteer Coordinators, I humbly request that anyone
-@c who adds an entry to this file please add a pointer to some more info
-@c about that project.  People ask us (gvc@gnu.org) for more information
-@c about these projects and it's embarrassing to ask around and find out
-@c that nobody remembers what the project was supposed to be, or do.
-@c We don't need a huge elaborate ISO-9001 document, just a couple of
-@c paragraphs or a URL or something that explains what the e.g. ``stalker''
-@c project should do.  It will save us all time in the future.
-@c Thanks, toby@gnu.org
-@c April 27, 2002
-
-@dircategory GNU organization
-@direntry
-* Tasks: (tasks).               GNU task list.
-@end direntry
-
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-
-@copying
-The GNU task list, last updated @value{lastupdate}.
-
-Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996,
-1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
-@quotation
-Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
-are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
-notice and this notice are preserved.
-@end quotation
-@end copying
-
-@titlepage
-@title GNU Task List
-@author Free Software Foundation
-@author last updated @value{lastupdate}
-@page
-@vskip 0pt plus 1filll
-@insertcopying
-@end titlepage
-
-@contents
-
-@ifnottex
-@node Top, Intro, (dir), (dir)
-@top GNU Task List
-
-@insertcopying
-
-See also
-@uref{http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html#helpgnu} for other suggested tasks.
-@end ifnottex
-
-@menu
-* Intro::
-* Highest Priority::
-* Documentation::
-* Unix-Related Projects::
-* Kernel Projects::
-* Extensions::
-* Java Projects::
-* X Windows Projects::
-* Network Projects::
-* Encryption Projects::
-* Other Projects::
-* Languages::
-* Education::
-* Games and Recreations::
-@end menu
-
-@node Intro, Highest Priority, Top, Top
-@chapter About the GNU Task List
-
-If you did not obtain this file directly from the GNU project and
-recently, please check for a newer version.  You can ftp the task list
-from any GNU FTP host in directory @file{/pub/gnu/tasks/}.  The task
-list is available there in several different formats: @file{tasks.text},
-@file{tasks.texi}, @file{tasks.info}, and @file{tasks.dvi}.
-@c to fix an overfill, join the paragraphs -len
-The task list is also available on the GNU World Wide Web server:
-@uref{http://www.gnu.org/prep/tasks_toc.html}.
-
-If you start working steadily on a project, please let @email{gvc@@gnu.org}
-know.  We might have information that could help you; we'd also like to
-send you the GNU coding standards.
-
-Because of the natural tendency for most volunteers to write programming
-tools or programming languages, we have a comparative shortage of
-applications useful for non-programmer users.  Therefore, we ask you to
-consider writing such a program.
-
-Typically, a new program that does a completely new job advances
-the GNU project, and the free software community, more than an
-improvement to an existing program.
-
-Typically, new features or new programs advance the free software
-community more, in the long run, than porting existing programs.  One
-reason is that portable new features and programs benefit people on many
-platforms, not just one.  At the same time, there tend to be many
-volunteers for porting---so your help will be more valuable in other
-areas, where volunteers are more scarce.
-
-Typically, it is more useful to extend a program in functionality than
-to improve performance.  Users who use the new functionality will
-appreciate it very much, if they use it; but even when they benefit from
-a performance improvement, they may not consider it very important.
-
-Finally, if you think of an important job that free software cannot
-solve yet that is typically solved by proprietary software, please send
-a short description of that job to @email{tasks@@gnu.org} so that we can
-add it to this task list.
-
-@node Highest Priority, Documentation, Intro, Top
-@chapter Highest Priority
-
-This task list mentions a large number of tasks that would be more or
-less useful.  With luck, at least one of them will inspire you to start
-writing.  It's better for you to work on any task that inspires you than
-not write free software at all.
-
-But if you would like to work on what we need most, here is a list of
-high priority projects.
-
-@itemize @bullet
-
-@item
-
-If you are good at writing documentation, please do that.  Pick a system
-or program you like, and write a Free tutorial or manual for it.
-
-@item
-
-Help to finish the missing features of the @command{docbook2texi} so
-that as many Docbook tags as possible can be translated into reasonable
-Texinfo.  See @uref{http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net/todo.html} for a
-task list of what needs to be done.
-
-@item
-If you are very good at C programming and interested in kernels, you
-can help develop the GNU HURD, the kernel for the GNU system.  Please
-have a look at @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html}, and
-then join the HURD mailing lists at
-@uref{http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-contact}.
-
-@item
-If you are a Scheme fan, you can help develop Guile.  Please have a look
-at the URL @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html}
-and then contact the Guile developers at @email{guile-devel@@gnu.org}.
-
-@item
-Improve the facilities for translating other languages into Scheme,
-so that Guile can provide support for a variety of languages.
-
-@item
-A package to convert programs written using MS Access into Scheme,
-making use of a free data base system and the GTK toolkit.
-
-@item
-A general-purpose document viewing program that can handle PostScript,
-DVI, PDF, HTML, RTF, Word format and Word Perfect format.
-
-@item
-Help develop software to emulate Windows NT on top of GNU systems.
-For example, you could help work on Wine.
-See @uref{http://www.winehq.org/}.
-
-@ignore
-@c panda is a PDF generator library released under the GPL
-@c http://www.stillhq.com/cgi-bin/getpage?area=panda&page=index.htm
-@item
-A free replacement for pdflib. This is a library for generating PDF.
-@end ignore
-
-@item
-Add gettext support to GNU programs that don't have it already.  (Please
-contact the developers of the specific packages that you want to work
-on.)
-
-@item
-Develop a substitute, which runs on GNU systems, for some very popular
-or very important application that many non-programmers use on Windows,
-and which has no comparable free equivalent now.
-@end itemize
-
-@node Documentation, Unix-Related Projects, Highest Priority, Top
-@chapter Documentation
-
-We very urgently need documentation for many existing parts of the
-system.
-
-Note that there are proprietary manuals for many of these topics, but
-proprietary manuals do not count, for the same reason proprietary
-software does not count: we are not free to copy and modify them.
-We do not recommend any non-free materials as documentation.
-
-@itemize @bullet
-
-@item
-A reference document for SQL for use as a standard for implementors of
-free software versions of SQL.
-
-@item
-A manual for libstdc++.
-
-
-@ignore
-@c the Indian TeX Users Group has completed a freely distributable version of a LaTex manual - http://www.tug.org.in/tutorials.html
-@item
-A unified manual for La@TeX{}.  (Existing documentation is non-free.)
-@end ignore
-
-@ignore
-@c docbook definitive guide http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/ is now FDL
-@item
-A manual for Docbook SGML format.
-@end ignore
-
-@item
-A tutorial introduction to Midnight Commander.
-
-@item
-A thorough manual for RCS.
-
-@item
-A reference manual for Mach.
-
-@item
-A reference manual for the GNU Hurd features in GNU libc.
-
-@item
-A manual for writing Hurd servers.
-
-@ignore
-@c this is done.
-@item
-A manual for GNU sed.
-@end ignore
-
-@item
-Reference manuals for C++, Objective C, Pascal, Fortran 77, and Java.
-
-@item
-A tutorial manual for the C++ STL (standard template library).
-
-@item
-A tutorial manual for Gforth.
-
-@item
-GNU Objective-C Runtime Library Manual; this would be a reference manual
-for the runtime library functions, structures, and classes.  Some work
-has been done on this job.
-
-@item
-Manuals for GNUstep: developer tutorial, developer programming manual,
-developer reference manual, and user manual.
-
-@item
-A manual for Ghostscript.
-
-@item
-A manual for TCSH.
-
-@item
-A coherent free reference manual for Perl.  Most of the Perl on-line
-reference documentation can be used as a starting point, but work is
-needed to weld them together into a coherent manual.
-
-@c Bradley M. Kuhn is working on this. <bkuhn@gnu.org>  Refer volunteers to
-@c  him.
-
-@item
-
-A good free Perl language tutorial introduction.  The existing Perl
-introductions are published with restrictions on copying and
-modification, so that they cannot be part of a GNU system.  bkuhn made a
-start at a free tutorial, but a lot of work is needed.
-
-
-@item
-A manual for PIC (the graphics formatting language).
-
-@item
-A book on how GCC works and why various machine descriptions
-are written as they are.
-
-@item
-A manual for programming applications for X11.
-
-@item
-Manuals for various X window managers.
-
-@item
-Reference cards for those manuals that don't have them: C
-Compiler, Texinfo, Termcap, and maybe the C Library.
-
-@item
-Many utilities still need documentation.
-@end itemize
-
-@node Unix-Related Projects, Kernel Projects, Documentation, Top
-@chapter Unix-Related Projects
-
-@itemize @bullet
-@ignore
-@item
-Modify the GNU @code{dc} program to use the math routines of GNU
-@code{bc}.
-@end ignore
-
-@item
-Rewrite @code{indent} from scratch to make it cleaner.
-
-@item
-Write a free software replacement for the @code{agrep} program.
-
-@item
-Less urgent: make a replacement for the ``writer's workbench'' program
-@code{style}, or something to do the same kind of job.  Compatibility
-with Unix is not especially important for this program.
-
-@end itemize
-
-@node Kernel Projects, Extensions, Unix-Related Projects, Top
-@chapter Kernel-Related Projects
-
-@itemize @bullet
-@item
-An over-the-ethernet debugger stub that will allow the kernel to be
-debugged from GDB running on another machine.
-
-This stub needs its own self-contained implementation of all protocols
-to be used, since the GNU system will use user processes to implement
-all but the lowest levels, and the stub won't be able to use those
-processes.  If a simple self-contained implementation of IP and TCP is
-impractical, it might be necessary to design a new, simple protocol
-based directly on ethernet.  It's not crucial to support high speed or
-communicating across gateways.
-
-It might be possible to use the Mach ethernet driver code, but it would
-need some changes.
-
-@item
-A shared memory X11 server to run under MACH is very desirable.  The
-machine specific parts should be kept well separated.
-
-@item
-An implementation of CIFS, the ``Common Internet File System,'' for the
-HURD.  This protocol is an offshoot of SMB.
-
-@item
-Support (in Linux?) for dumping the non-textual contents of an SVGA
-console.
-@end itemize
-
-@node Extensions, Java Projects, Kernel Projects, Top
-@chapter Extensions to Existing GNU Software
-
-@itemize @bullet
-@item
-Enhance GCC.  See files @file{PROJECTS} and @file{PROBLEMS} in the GCC
-distribution.
-
-@item
-Interface GDB to Guile, so that users can write debugging commands in
-Scheme.  This would also make it possible to write, in Scheme, a
-graphical interface that uses GTK and is tightly integrated into GDB.
-
-@item
-Extend Octave to support programs that were written
-to run on Khoros.
-
-@item
-Rewrite Automake in Scheme, so it can run in Guile.  Right now it is
-written in Perl.  There are also other programs, not terribly long,
-which we would also like to have rewritten in Scheme.
-
-@item
-Finish the partially-implemented C interpreter project.
-
-@item
-Help with the development of GNUstep, a GNU implementation of the
-OpenStep specification.
-
-@item
-Add features to GNU Make to record the precise rule with which each file
-was last recompiled; then recompile any file if its rule in the makefile
-has changed.
-
-@item
-Add a few features to GNU @code{diff}, such as handling large input
-files without reading entire files into core.
-
-@item
-An @code{nroff} macro package to simplify @code{texi2roff}.
-
-@item
-A queueing system for the mailer Smail that groups pending work by
-destination rather than by original message.  This makes it possible
-to schedule retries coherently for each destination.  Talk to
-@email{tron@@veritas.com} and @email{woods@@weird.com} about this.
-
-@end itemize
-
-@node  Java Projects, X Windows Projects, Extensions, Top
-@chapter Java Projects
-
-@itemize @bullet
-
-@item
-The GNU Classpath Extensions project is looking for help.  classpathx
-builds free versions of Sun's java extension libraries, the packages
-in the javax namespace.
-
-@item
-Write a replacement for the javadoc utility.  The Classpath
-(@uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath}) team has already made a
-start to one.
-
-
-@end itemize
-
-@node X Windows Projects, Network Projects, Java Projects, Top
-@chapter X Windows Projects
-
-@itemize @bullet
-@item
-An emulator for Macintosh graphics calls on top of X Windows.
-
-@ignore
-@c winelib does this http://www.winehq.org/
-@item
-A package that emulates the API of Visual C++'s Foundation Classes
-(MFC), but operates on top of X11.  It need not match the screen
-appearance provided by MFC.  Instead, it would be best to use GTK, so as
-to give coherence with GNOME.
-@end ignore
-
-@ignore
-@c GNOME Basic is doing this
-@item
-A compatible replacement for Visual Basic, running on top of X11.
-It need not match the screen appearance of Visual C++.  Instead,
-it would be best to use GTK, so as to give coherence with GNOME.
-@end ignore
-
-@ignore
-@c Denemo is doing this.
-@item
-A music playing and editing system.  This should work with LilyPond, a
-GNU program for music typesetting.
-@end ignore
-
-@ignore  @c GNUskies should do this
-@item
-An ephemeris program to replace xephem (which is, alas, too restricted
-to qualify as free software).
-@end ignore
-
-@c Gepetto (@url{http://laurent.riesterer.free.fr/gepetto/intro-main.html},
-@c @email{laurent.riesterer@@free.fr}), according to @email{gnueval@@gnu.org},
-@c does the job of displaing dancers but does not allow editing notation.
-
-
-@item
-Make sure the Vibrant toolkit works with LessTif instead of Motif.
-
-@item
-A program to display and edit Hypercard stacks.
-
-@item
-A two-dimensional outliner program, which lets you draw
-graph structures of textual items, and then display them
-in various ways.
-
-@ignore  @c done
-@item
-A program for graphic morphing of scanned photographs.
-@end ignore
-
-@ignore  @c Done by gLabels
-@item
-Software for designing and printing business cards.
-@end ignore
-@end itemize
-
-@node Network Projects, Encryption Projects, X Windows Projects, Top
-@chapter Network Projects
-
-@itemize @bullet
-@ignore
-@c Cornell has released a program for this.
-@item
-A teleconferencing program which does the job of CU-SeeMe (which is,
-alas, not free software).
-@end ignore
-
-@ignore
-@c Bishop Bettini <bishop@synxcti.com> is working on this.
-@item
-A free ICQ-compatible server program.  (The ICQ server itself is not
-free software.)
-@end ignore
-
-@ignore
-@c if anyone knows what this means please send email to gvc@gnu.org
-@item
-Free software like Stalker for operating a web server for email
-services.
-@end ignore
-
-@end itemize
-
-@node Encryption Projects, Other Projects, Network Projects, Top
-@chapter Encryption Projects
-
-These projects need to be written outside the US by people who are not
-US citizens, to avoid problems with US export control law.
-
-@itemize @bullet
-@ignore
-@c libcrypt is doing this.
-@item
-A free library for public-key encryption.  This library can probably be
-developed from the code for the GNU Privacy Guard.
-@end ignore
-
-@ignore
-@item
-@c GNUtls is doing this.
-An implementation of SSLv3 (more precisely, TLSv1) which has
-distribution terms compatible with the GNU GPL.  We know of a
-GPL-covered implemention of a version of SSL that you can use as a
-starting point.
-@end ignore
-
-@ignore
-@c akopia interchange appears to do this.  if you'd like to re-open this
-@c item please let the GVC know what you want (in some detail)
-@item
-Free software for doing secure commercial transactions on the web.
-This should be based on libgcrypt and GNUtls.
-@end ignore
-
-@end itemize
-
-@node Other Projects, Languages, Encryption Projects, Top
-@chapter Other Projects
-
-If you think of others that should be added, please
-send them to @email{tasks@@gnu.org}.
-
-@itemize @bullet
-
-@ignore
-@c vcg as of version 1.30 (current as of 2002-10-24) is GPL
-@c toby 2002-10-24
-@item
-A library for automatic graph layout.  VCG version 1.0, which was free
-software, might provide a base for this.
-@end ignore
-
-@item
-A data visualization program along the lines of xgobi or ggobi.
-
-@item
-A graph visualization program, which would use that library and
-provide a front end for manual and interactive intervention so as to
-provide a full substitute for equivalent proprietory software.  It
-would be good to support DOT format as input, and perhaps other
-formats.
-
-@c Such proprietary software is daVinci and graphviz, but are uncommon enough
-@c that we don't mention them here publicly.
-@c http://www.research.att.com/~erg/graphviz/info/lang.html
-@c Some useful information about graph drawing programs can be found here
-@c http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/gdlinks.html
-
-@c At the time of making this entry, VCG's website was
-@c    http://rw4.cs.uni-sb.de/users/sander/html/gsvcg1.html
-
-@item
-
-A ``one stop shopping system'' for advocates involved with social
-justice or other non-profit campaigns.  The idea would be to create an
-easy-to-use interface to software that would allow someone to register a
-domain for their organisation, build a website, and set up mailing
-lists.  The software would need options to easily do all this, and be
-made easy for non-hackers.  Mainly the work would involve bringing
-together a number of existing tools with an overriding configuration
-program.
-
-@ignore LinuxBIOS is doing this
-@item
-A simple PC BIOS.  On most new PCs, the BIOS is stored in writable
-memory (misleadingly known as ``flash ROM'').  In order to have a wholly
-free system on these PCs, we need a free BIOS.
-
-This task is made simpler by the fact that this BIOS need only support
-enough features to enable a boot-loader such as LILO or GRUB to finish
-loading the kernel.  Neither Linux nor Mach actually uses the BIOS once
-it starts up.  Also, it is not absolutely necessary to do all the many
-diagnostics that an ordinary BIOS does (though it would be useful to do
-some of them).  However, there may be a need to configure certain data
-in the computer in a way that is specific to each model of computer.
-@end ignore
-
-@item
-An imitation of Page Maker or Ventura Publisher.
-
-@item
-An imitation of @code{dbase2} or @code{dbase3}.  (How dbased!)
-Harbour, a free replacement for Clipper, would provide a useful start.
-@uref{http://www.harbour-project.org/}.
-
-@ignore  @c being done by Jonas etc.
-@item
-A general ledger program, including support for accounts payable,
-account receivables, payroll, inventory control, order processing, etc.
-@end ignore
-
-@item
-A free replacement for Glimpse, which is not free software.
-Swish does some parts of the job, but not all.
-
-@item
-Software for desktop publishing.  We are extending Emacs into a WYSIWYG
-word processor, to handle primarily linear text; what this item proposes
-is software focused on page layout.
-
-@ignore It looks like TruePrint will fill this gap
-@item
-A program to typeset C code for printing, to make it easier to read on
-paper.  For ideas on what to do, see the book,
-
-@display
-Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs,
-Ronald M. Baecker and Aaron Marcus,
-Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10745-7
-@end display
-
-But you don't have to do exactly what they propose.
-@end ignore
-
-@ignore
-@c This is now being worked on -- rms, 22 June 1998
-@item
-A program to convert Microsoft Word documents to text/enriched, TeX,
-LaTeX, Texinfo, or some other format that free software can edit.
-@end ignore
-
-@ignore
-@c People are helping the developer of siff release it as free software.
-
-@item
-A free replacement for siff (sometimes called sif).  This would be a
-program to find similar files in a large file system, ``similar''
-meaning that the files contain a significant number of common substrings
-that are of a certain size or greater.  You can find some information
-about siff (which is, unfortunately, not free software) at
-@uref{ftp://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/reports/1993/TR93-33.ps.Z}.
-@end ignore
-
-@ignore
-@c This is being developed -- rms, 3 May 1998
-@item
-A free replacement for the semi-free Qt library.
-@end ignore
-
-@ignore
-@c Ogg Vorbis is doing this, see @url{http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html} or contact @email{Monty <monty@xiph.org>}.
-
-@item
-High-quality music compression software.
-(Talk with @email{mt@@sulaco.org} for relevant suggestions.)
-Unfortunately we cannot implement the popular MP3 format
-due to patents, so this job includes working out some other
-non-patented format and compression method.
-@end ignore
-
-@item
-A program to play sound distributed in ``Real Audio'' format, if only
-because there is a large corpus of data encoded in this format.  We
-ask that you encode audio data in Ogg/Vorbis format since it is
-publically documented and there are Free Software encoders and
-decoders available.
-
-@ignore
-@c we do NOT want to provide software to encode data into proprietary secret formats.  People should use ogg/vorbis or another well-documented format instead
-@item
-A program to generate ``Real Audio'' format from audio input.
-@end ignore
-
-@item
-Programs to handle audio in RTSP format.
-
-@ignore  @c Software patents have made this domain off limits to free software.
-@item
-An MPEG III audio encoder/decoder (but it is necessary to check, first,
-whether patents make this impossible).
-
-@c Chris Hofstader is working on a non-Festival speech-generation program.
-@c Mario Lang <lang@zid.tu-graz.ac.at> reports that Festival needs only
-@c to be 2-5 times faster to work well with Emacspeak.
-@item
-Speech-generation programs that are faster than the Festival engine.
-This might be done by optimizing Festival.
-
-@c We have a project now.
-@item
-Speech-recognition programs (single-speaker, disconnected speech is sufficient).
-@end ignore
-
-@item
-A braille translation and formatting system which can convert marked up
-documents into braille.  This should let the user customize the braille
-translation rules; it would be good to divide it into a
-device-independent part plus drivers.  Contact Jason White,
-@email{jasonw@@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU}.
-
-@ignore Being done
-@item
-A program to display text word by word, always showing just one word at
-a time.  This method permits much faster reading than ordinary text
-display.  If you want to work on this, contact @email{stutz@@dsl.org} to
-learn more.
-@end ignore
-
-@item
-More scientific mathematical subroutines.
-(A clone of SPSS is being written already.)
-
-@item
-A scientific data collection and processing tool,
-perhaps something like Scientific Workbench and/or Khoros,
-
-@item
-A free replacement for SciRun, which is not free software.
-
-@item
-A program to calculate properties of molecules by solving
-the Schroedinger equation.
-
-
-@ignore
-@c the Koha project appears to satisfy this need.  see www.koha.org
-@c toby 2002-06-21
-
-@item
-Software to replace card catalogs in libraries.
-@end ignore
-
-
-@item
-A simulator for heating and air conditioning systems for buildings.
-
-@ignore
-@c Pat Deegan @email{pat@@psychogenic.com} is working on this.
-@c no URL yet, the status is updated in @file{volunteers}
-
-@item
-A program for voting and tabulating election results.
-
-@end ignore
-
-@ignore
-@c at least 4 GPL program exist for this purpose (one of
-@c which, gramps, has a GNOME UI):
-@c http://www.gnu.org/search/fsd-search.py?q=geneology
-@c 2002-06-27 toby
-
-@item
-A package for editing genealogical records conveniently.
-This could perhaps be done as a Gnome program, or perhaps
-as an Emacs extension.
-
-@end ignore
-
-@ignore
-@c ToutDoux aims to do this.
-@c also Minkowsky (at least simple project management) - toby
-
-@item
-A project-scheduling package that accepts a list of project sub-tasks
-with their interdependencies, and generates Gantt charts and Pert charts
-and all the other standard project progress reports.
-@end ignore
-
-@item
-Grammar and style checking programs.
-
-@item
-A diagnostic program to test a hard disk.
-
-@item
-Optical character recognition programs; especially if suitable for
-scanning documents with multiple fonts and capturing font info as well
-as character codes.  Work is being done on this, but more help is needed.
-
-@c Some of the OCR work being done:
-@c   Luis Cearra <luisjc@lem.eui.upm.es>, http://lem.eui.upm.es/ocre.html
-@c The status of these projects is updated in @file{/gd/gnuorg/volunteers}
-
-@item
-A program to scan a line drawing and convert it to editable Postscript,
-or some other editable format.
-
-@item
-A program to recognize handwriting (we don't believe PocketLinux's
-handwriting capability is ready for non-PocketLinux environments, yet).
-
-
-@item
-A program that can translate from one natural language, into another.
-For example, a program to translate French into English.
-
-@item
-CAD software, such as a vague imitation of Autocad.
-
-@item
-A program to receive data from a serial-line tap to facilitate the
-reverse-engineering of communication protocols.
-
-@item
-A database program designed to store and retrieve patent information.
-
-@item
-A free software package to run on a Palm Pilot in place of its usual
-software, doing more or less the usual jobs.  (Linux, the kernel, has
-apparently been ported, but according to what we hear this port is not
-useful yet.)
-
-@end itemize
-
-@node Languages, Education, Other Projects, Top
-@chapter Programming Languages
-
-Volunteers are needed to write parsers/front ends for languages such as
-Algol 60, Algol 68, PL/I, Cobol, Fortran 90, Delphi, Modula 2, Modula 3,
-RPG, and any other languages designed for compilation, to be used with
-the code generation phases of the GNU C compiler.
-
-@ignore
-@c Fortran status is here so gnu@gnu.org and the volunteer coordinators
-@c don't have to answer the question -len
-@c as of 2002-09 this doesn't work anymore - toby
-You can get the status of the Fortran front end with this command:
-
-@example
-finger -l fortran@@gnu.org
-@end example
-@end ignore
-
-We would like to have translators from various languages into Scheme.
-These languages include TCL, Python, Perl, Java, Javascript, and Rexx.
-Perhaps Clipper as well.
-
-@node Education, Games and Recreations, Languages, Top
-@chapter Education
-
-Programs for studying, teaching or doing administrative tasks in schools.
-See @uref{http://www.gnu.org/education/} for additional information.
-
-@itemize @bullet
-@item
-A program to organize automatically the schedule of a school given
-constraints about teachers, rooms, times, and students.
-
-@item
-A program to edit dance notation (such as labanotation) and display
-dancers moving on the screen.  Gepetto does some of this work.  Contact
-@email{gvc@@gnu.org} if you are interested in helping finish the job.
-
-@end itemize
-
-@node Games and Recreations,  , Education, Top
-@chapter Games and Recreations
-
-Video-oriented games that work with the X window system.
-
-@itemize @bullet
-@item
-Empire (there is a free version but it needs upgrading)
-
-@item
-An ``empire builder'' system that makes it easy to write various kinds of
-simulation games.
-
-@item
-Improve GnuGo @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo.html}.
-
-@item
-Network servers and clients for board and card games for which such
-software does not yet exist.
-
-@item
-A Hierarchical Task Network package which can be used
-to program play the computer's side in various strategic games.
-
-@item
-A game like Mill/Nine Men's Morris.
-
-@item
-A realistic train-driving simulator.
-
-@item
-Write imitations of some popular video games:
-
-@itemize -
-@item
-Space war, Asteroids, Pong, Columns.
-@item
-Defending cities from missiles.
-@item
-Plane shoots at lots of other planes, tanks, etc.
-@item
-Wizard fights fanciful monsters.
-@ignore Peter Sundling peter.sundling@telia.com expressed interest in this.
-@item
-A golf game.
-@ignore Being done by jhall1@isd.net
-@item
-Program a robot by sticking building blocks together,
-then watch it explore a world.
-@end ignore
-@item
-Biomorph evolution (as in Scientific American and @cite{The Blind
-Watchmaker}).
-@end itemize
-@end itemize
-
-We do not need @code{rogue}, as we have @code{hack}.
-
-
-@bye
-@c  LocalWords:  dir texi lastupdate uref http www org html helpgnu ifinfo ftp
-@c  LocalWords:  dvi hurd toc gvc URL GTK XmHTML xs nl ripley NT com gettext Qt
-@c  LocalWords:  GUI libstdc Docbook SGML libc sed STL Gforth GNUstep TCSH Perl
-@c  LocalWords:  Ghostscript PIC GCC Texinfo grep dc bc ethernet GDB IP CIFS CU
-@c  LocalWords:  SMB SVGA Khoros Automake OpenStep diff roff Smail tron veritas
-@c  LocalWords:  cxref ctrace API LilyPond xephem labanotation LessTif outliner
-@c  LocalWords:  Hypercard morphing SeeMe ICQ Diffie Helman RSA SSLv TLSv GPL
-@c  LocalWords:  OpenBIOS BIOS LILO dbase dbased Harbour harbour WYSIWYG ISBN
-@c  LocalWords:  TruePrint Baecker siff sif cs arizona edu TR ps mt sulaco MP
-@c  LocalWords:  RTSP MPEG jasonw ariel ucs unimelb AU stutz dsl TCL Javascript
-@c  LocalWords:  Rexx GnuGo jhall isd Biomorph regexp eval gd gnuorg
-
-Local variables:
-eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
-time-stamp-start: "@set lastupdate "
-time-stamp-end: "$"
-time-stamp-format: "%:b %:d, %:y"
-compile-command: "make just-tasks"
-End:
-
-@ignore
-   arch-tag: 7ed10085-fa7c-47d4-9ed5-39e885603e5c
-@end ignore