Hello wine-devel,<br><br>My name is John and I&#39;m a computer science major at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus. I&#39;ve made quite a bit of use of Wine before (and I have purchased Crossover) and I&#39;m inspired to give something back to the project.<br>

<br>I have fairly ambitious goals for myself (maybe too much so) so I wanted to let you guys know who I am and what I&#39;d like to do, then hopefully gain some insight into whether or not what I am considering is reasonable. My experience is roughly as follows:<br>

<br>* I am familiar with C. I&#39;m not an expert developer by any stretch but I can certainly get by. I have some knowledge of Git.<br>* I don&#39;t have any Windows development experience outside of some exposure to .NET a long time ago.<br>
* I have not submitted a patch to the Wine project. I hope to change this in the near future. I&#39;ve looked at a little bit of the source code.<br>* I have high standards for myself. Whether or not they are high enough to meet Alexandre&#39;s expectations... perhaps time will tell. :-)<br>
* I&#39;m a really fast learner. Maybe this is my single most redeeming quality.<br><br>All that being said, my goal for the summer would be to really dig into the D3D stuff, optimizing what is already completed and adding to what is not. I&#39;m a gamer myself, so I have an arsenal of programs with which to test (and a Windows installation to compare to). Do you think this goal is reasonable? If not, I could start somewhere smaller and work my way up. I&#39;m certainly open to suggestions.<br>
<br>Thanks!<br><br>John<br>