Hello wine-devel!

This is my proposal as a student for Google Summer of Code 2013.

I'm George Stephanos from the "Arab Academy for Science and Technology" situated in Egypt. gsteph on #winehackers

I'm currently about to finish my second semester as a BSc in CS.

Previous Experience:

I haven't developed for Wine before though I've always been a big fan of the project.

I'm fairly good with C/C++ and Python and I think I have enough Win32 API experience. I've previously developed small WinSock, DirectX and classic GUI applications (with and without MFC).

I'm a freelancer. I've worked (alone) on around 25-30 projects rating 4+/5 in each.

I've enrolled in Google Code-In 2010 and 2011 (which is basically GSoC for high school students) writing lots of ARM assembly code for VideoLAN (#x264dev on freenode). In 2011, I would have ranked 12th if not for an issue that occurred between VideoLAN and Google.

Proposal:

I've read your ideas page and the only registry task [1] has particularly caught my attention.

I'm aware of what I need to do. I've read [2], [3] and [4].

I haven't yet browsed the Wine tree at all and I'll probably be missing implementation strategies but that'll hopefully be worked out with my mentor.

[1] - http://wiki.winehq.org/SummerOfCode?#head-40e316e01066b5a129cd65073fa4b89dd227fd89

[2] - http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14771

[3] - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724475(v=vs.85).aspx

[4] - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724498(v=vs.85).aspx

Tell me if you need more information.

Hope you consider me!

Thanks,

George