Thanks everybody for the replies.<br><br><br>
&gt;Welcome! I&#39;m glad you&#39;ve chosen Wine; we can sure use more help.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;Sounds like you know your way around, but please feel free to ask for 
help<br>
&gt;anytime.  The IRC channel works particularly well; real discussions will<br>
&gt;keep us from being annoyed by the trolls.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;Note that there are a few caustic folks; please don&#39;t let sharp comments<br>
&gt;from any of them discourage you.<br>
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&gt;Overall, I like to think that we&#39;re the friendliest large open source 
development community<br>
&gt;out there.  Of course, that is a bit like saying that we&#39;re the<br>
&gt;friendliest and nicest pit viper :-), but still...<br><br>Haha, yea, I know the game. Never had too much of a problem with those sorts of people.<br><br> &gt;I guess<br>
&gt;the most profitable would be implementing the effect interfaces, since<br>
&gt;these are the most used ones next to shaders and textures.<br><br>That sounds interesting, I&#39;d be willing to give it a shot.<br>@Henri: I&#39;m always up for a challenge. Perhaps you could suggest a smaller subset of the problem that would be more feasible to attempt in 2-3 months? Perhaps a few effects rather than any significant chunk of them? Also, what are you looking for in a proposal?<br>

<br>Here&#39;s the wiki for the problem I mentioned in my first post: <a href="http://wiki.winehq.org/DirectX-D3DX9">http://wiki.winehq.org/DirectX-D3DX9</a> . What&#39;s the current status on this proposal? It sounds like a fairly major problem.<br>

<br>@Tony: I&#39;m not sure I followed the subsequent discussion. Has your work been incorporated into wine-git yet, or is that still pending?<br><br>Thanks again guys. And as before, all suggestions are appreciated!<br>
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---<br>Arjun Comar, Rose-Hulman &#39;12<br>