Group: GNU Generation/Project brainstorming

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If you do not like any of the existing projects, why not create your own? You can find some inspiration for possible projects below if you don't already have an idea. If you have a project idea for someone else, feel free to post it below. If you have your own idea or felt inspired by something on this page, create a project and enter the Free Software community!

General

Programming

  • Contribute code to one of the official GNU packages
  • Create a Free Software plugin for your favorite Free Software application
  • Design a distributed social networking platform and release it under the AGPL
  • Create a new GPL or AGPL application from scratch!
  • Look for Free Software projects that have already developed projects for Google Summer of Code

Local Community

  • Organize a GNU/Linux install-fest and/or educational event in your hometown
  • Create a Free Software club at your school to help your peers understand Free Software and switch to GNU/Linux, and provide technical and moral support to these new users
  • Start a computer recycling project to bring GNU/Linux based computers to impoverished students in your community

Writing

  • Create or update documentation for your favorite small-medium sized Free Software project

Project Specific

Libre.fm

  • Libre.fm is a music community website that aims to provide a replacement for last.fm
  • See http://libre.fm, or contact Matt Lee (mattl@libre.fm) for more information.

Software Directory

  • Creating a software directory that features good free software. (With a different approach than directory.fsf.org)
  • I posted a brainstorm on my (User:Nikita) user page.
  • Any ideas if this is a worthwhile project? (There are some possible cons).

Free Software for Bay Area Schools

  • Moving San Francisco Bay Area schools to Free Software, 2 schools already under way.
  • You can see our project page here http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_for_Bay_Area_schools!
  • Lots of ways for both technical & non-technical people to help.
  • contact Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt at gmail dot com if you want to help.

GNU Classpath

GNU plotutils

  • GNU plotutils is a tool to make graphs based on x,y coordinates. One limitation is that it doesn't understand dates or times, so these types of data have to be converted into a number before being passed to plotutils. For example, in the swpat.org's progress charts, dates are converted into the number of seconds that have passed since January 1st 1970 in this data. This works for plotting the graph, but it requires extra programming skills from the user, and it means the x axis prints the date as an unreadable number. So here's the task: make GNU plotutils automatically convert the date data to an internal number, while conserving the date format for display on the x axis.
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