When you hang around just a while on wine's IRC channel you'll see that(i'd guess) more than 50% of the user's questions is about how to get their games running. I think it would be cool if there would be some proposals for SOC project to get better DirectX(/wined3d) support. From the wine-users point of view i think that's what they want :) I'm sure some of the developers that currently work on wined3d can think of proposals that students could work on. At least , wouldn't be fixing bug 2398 be an idea for SOC?