Hey all, I'm new here and interested in the Wine project for GSoC this year and figured I'd start by introducing myself and hopefully getting to know who's who on this list. I'm a Sophomore CS major at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a science and engineering school in Indiana. I've been writing code since I taught myself how in 7th grade, and I've been using Linux since around that same time. In high school, I volunteered large chunks of my time to various open source projects: Ubuntu, Compiz, etc.. Now that I'm in college, I regret not having quite as much time as I'd like to devote to the Linux community as a whole, so I'm hoping to spend this summer giving something back.
A quick explanation of what experience I have (relevant stuff only): Linux, C, OpenGL
I've been scanning the wiki for GSoC from last year and noticed that most of the projects didn't have any sort of a status associated with them. I checked in the irc channel, and was told that most of the projects were still open. Of those that don't have a status listed, I'm kinda interested in the d3d9_xx DLLs problem. While I'm not too familiar with DirectX, I figure if I start now I'll have plenty of time to get up to speed. Is this still a problem that needs work? If so, is the mentor listed on the page still accurate? I attempted to contact the listed mentor but wasn't successful.
I'd also be interested in working on almost anything else, that project just stuck out to me as something important that hadn't gotten done in a long time. If you have any suggestions for useful projects, or how to go about getting caught up to speed on what I need to know (Windows API, DirectX, and/or the Wine codebase itself), I would appreciate that. It's slow going trying to find all the information on my own, but I'm sure other people have had the same problem before and have found good resources to solve it.
I'm very interested in working with all of you for the next few months and hopefully through the summer and beyond. If anyone would like more information, feel free to ask. I've never done this before, so I'm not too sure what kind of information you guys are looking for in a GSoC candidate. Any critique/commentary is appreciated.
TL;DR: I'm a student interested in GSoC, help me out!
--- Arjun Comar, Rose-Hulman '12 Computer Science