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+## Goal
+
+The X.org board treats GSoC as an opportunity to teach new developers rather than a chance to get a pile of free code. With this perspective, if, in two months, the student actually has learned how to contribute to X Window System, that's a huge step forward. Creating a project which guides this process with a maximal chance of success is the only tricky part. 
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+## Ideas
+
+Ideas for projects for students looking to participate in Google's Summer of Code.  Please note that these are just suggestions; if you have an idea for something else please ask. 
+
+When writing a proposal, please remember to make it detailed. Include at least the information called for in "[[What should a student application look like?|http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60306&topic=10727]]", but including milestones and a project schedule is even better.  See [[X.Org-GSoC2008-Application|X.Org-GSoC2008-Application]] for guidelines. 
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+
+### Xserver core
+
+* Move the dmx muxing code into the server to replace the existing xinerama mux code 
+* EXA support for surfaces larger than the hardware limits 
+* Infrastructure for direct-rendering GL windows larger than the hardware supports 
+* Investigate redoing miarc/miwideline/etc. for smaller size and better performance 
+
+### Xinerama
+
+* Composite/Xinerama integration 
+* Hotplugging additional local and remote displays 
+* Auto enabling and disabling Xinerama screens. 
+* Make Xinerama handle more than just X screens 
+
+### Xdmx
+
+      * Integrate with the rootless code a la Xdarwin and Cygwin/X, for floating window migration 
+      * Add support for Fixes/Damage/Composite 
+      * Fix input 
+
+### XCB
+
+      * Auto-generate server-side protocol stubs from XCB's protocol descriptions 
+      * Implement a new language binding for XCB 
+            * Finishing the Haskell language binding would be really cool. 
+      * Implement a more complete test suite for XCB 
+      * Port Gdk and/or Qt to XCB 
+      * Port the important X utilities (xdpyinfo, xhost, etc.) to XCB 
+            * The [[XCB demos|http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xcb;a=tree;f=xcb-demo]] include partial ports of xdpyinfo and xrandr. 
+            * You'd have to port a lot of applications to make this an interesting Summer of Code project. 
+      * See [[XCBToDo|http://xcb.freedesktop.org/XCBToDo]] and Bugzilla(XCB) for more ideas, or contact [[jamey@minilop.net|mailto:jamey@minilop.net]] or [[xcb@lists.freedesktop.org|mailto:xcb@lists.freedesktop.org]]. 
+
+### Xau/Xdmcp
+
+      * Implement the XDM-AUTHORIZATION-2 authentification protocol for better IPv6/XDM support. (See [[Bug 277|https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277]] and the never-adopted draft of the XDM-AUTHORIZATION-2 changes to the XDMCP protocol spec.) 
+      * Replace the old/uncompiliable KERBEROS-5 authentication with GSS-API authentication. 
+
+### Drivers
+
+      * Add more support for EXA in the drivers; see [[ExaStatus|ExaStatus]] for a list. 
+      * Add dualhead support to an unsupported chip (trident, mach64, s3virge, [[nv|https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5190]], etc.) 
+      * Add basic DRI support to an unsupported chip (trident, s3virge, glint, siliconmotion, etc.) 
+      * Do some work on [[nouveau|http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/]] ; ideas include adding 3D support for more cards, better Xv/XvMC support through gallium, suspend/resume support, (see our [[TODO page|http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ToDo]] for more ideas) 
+      * More DRI-related ideas are visible on [[http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/GSoC_2008|http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/GSoC_2008]] 
+
+### XQuartz (OSX)
+
+Some of these might require changes to libXplugin (proprietary Apple code), but Apple is more than willing to provide the needed hooks.  Just join the [[xquartz-dev mailing list|http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/MailingLists]] 
+
+      * New extension support 
+            * RandR 
+            * Composite 
+      * Fix OpenGL support 
+            * Switch to XF86DRI instead of AppleDRI 
+                  * Write a Mesa DRI driver that uses OpenGL.framework 
+      * Top-Of-Tree syncing 
+            * input model, keymapping needs to be reworked 
+      * Copy/Paste proxying between OS-X and X11 
+      * Eliminate the need for AppleWM extension to allow other WMs to work better 
+      * Handle exposé / spaces events inside the X server rather than quartz-wm (so other WMs can be used) 
+      * Compositing window manager to replace quartz-wm (once Composite is enabled) 
+
+### Misc
+
+* Add test cases for more extensions, especially newer ones like Render, Composite, etc. (possibly to XTS5; see [[TestGroup|TestGroup]] wiki) 
+* Introspection extension to support tools like xscope 
+      * Would allow querying for request names and structures in generic fashion 
+      * Look at xcb-proto descriptions 
+* Integrate NX in XCB or X protocol 
+* Create GUI or textual tool for assisted editing of XKB configuration database. 
+* Formally documenting XKB configuration syntax and configuration database structure. 
+
+### DRI
+
+      * GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap 
+            * Update to latest spec 
+            * More efficient implementation, ideally texturing directly from offscreen pixmaps 
+      * Integrate properly with Composite, in particular, render to redirected windows correctly 
+      * Port new memory manager changes to drivers other than i915 
+      * make the X server's Xsync extension use DRM vblank waits or signals (really a DRI/X cross project) 
+            * rough patch is already available 
+            * developer would get good exposure to server and DRM internals 
+See also: [[ToDo|ToDo]], [[Releases/7.4|Releases/7.4]], [[DRI ideas list|http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/SummerOfCode]].