Work for hire^H^H^H^Hgrade

[Shachar Shemesh]

Hi all,

A prof. in a locale university is doing a summer course about open 
source development. I gave them a short power point lecture (on Linux 
:-), and showed them IE running, and managed to hook one vulenteer to do 
his assignment in Wine.

I have managed to interest him in some of open issues that are close to 
my heart (i.e. - BiDi related issues). However, this is far from final. 
I'm sure he would love to hear about other interesting areas, but some 
criteria must be kept.

It must be a task that is moreorless self contained (he is supposed to 
be graded for it at the end), and it must be something known to be 
possible in a reasonable amount of hours (i.e - it can't be 
"implementing MSI"). Then again, it can't be something too trivial (i.e. 
- not "localize notepad").

Currently at hand are adding encoding selection to the font dlg (and 
making it ANSI call Unicode in the process), and adding BiDi to the edit 
control. If you feel you have something else that may be of interest to 
him, feel free to try and grab him away :-)

Shachar
P.S.
No, I have not dropped of the face of the planet, and I still read this 
list. Just too busy to be doing anything useful (except hiring other 
working hands, which may count for something, I guess). I'll be back, 
though.

[Steven Edwards]

How about porting wineserver to Windows via Mingw+MSYS or fix the Cygwin port. It still would not
run as dll seperation of kernel32/ntdll needs to be done but I have been wanting to see this for a
while and for Cygwin its not to much work. 99% of it compiles it just needs Get/SetThreadContext
imeplemented. Its not a huge amount of work.

Even at that if I had the time, know-how, was in school and could get credit for working on a open
source project I would not work on WINE but port User Mode Linux to Windows. The Line project
already has a elf loader that will let you run Linux apps in Cygwin so its adapting that UML and
doing a port for a Mingw target. I just think it would be really nice to be able to run Linux on
top of a NT kernel so if ReactOS is ever ready you guys could have Linux on top of a kernel
running NT/2K drivers.

Thanks
Steven

--- Shachar Shemesh  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A prof. in a locale university is doing a summer course about open 
> source development. I gave them a short power point lecture (on Linux 
> :-), and showed them IE running, and managed to hook one vulenteer to do 
> his assignment in Wine.
>
> I have managed to interest him in some of open issues that are close to 
> my heart (i.e. - BiDi related issues). However, this is far from final. 
> I'm sure he would love to hear about other interesting areas, but some 
> criteria must be kept.
>
> It must be a task that is moreorless self contained (he is supposed to 
> be graded for it at the end), and it must be something known to be 
> possible in a reasonable amount of hours (i.e - it can't be 
> "implementing MSI"). Then again, it can't be something too trivial (i.e.
> - not "localize notepad").
>
> Currently at hand are adding encoding selection to the font dlg (and 
> making it ANSI call Unicode in the process), and adding BiDi to the edit 
> control. If you feel you have something else that may be of interest to 
> him, feel free to try and grab him away :-)
>             Shachar
>
> P.S.
> No, I have not dropped of the face of the planet, and I still read this 
> list. Just too busy to be doing anything useful (except hiring other 
> working hands, which may count for something, I guess). I'll be back, 
> though.
>
> -- 
> Shachar Shemesh
> Open Source integration consultant
> Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/

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[Shachar Shemesh]

Steven Edwards wrote:
> Even at that if I had the time, know-how, was in school and could get credit for working on a open
> source project I would not work on WINE but port User Mode Linux to Windows. The Line project
> already has a elf loader that will let you run Linux apps in Cygwin so its adapting that UML and
> doing a port for a Mingw target. I just think it would be really nice to be able to run Linux on
> top of a NT kernel so if ReactOS is ever ready you guys could have Linux on top of a kernel
> running NT/2K drivers.
>
> Thanks
> Steven

Actually, I know someone who started to port UML to the win32 platform. 
Mandatory military service in Israel meant that this project is on hold, 
but if Ronen wants to pick that one up, I can hook him up with the person.

Shachar

[Steven Edwards]

--- Shachar Shemesh  wrote:
> Actually, I know someone who started to port UML to the win32 platform. 
> Mandatory military service in Israel meant that this project is on hold, 
> but if Ronen wants to pick that one up, I can hook him up with the person.

Cool. This has moved off topic now but if this does turn out to be something of interest then I
will put Ronen in contact with a developer I know in Italy that has some interested in this also.
We started looking at this as a easy way to implement a POSIX subsystem that didnt suck for
ReactOS/Win2K.

Thanks
Steven

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[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On July 27, 2003 01:38 am, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Currently at hand are adding encoding selection to the font dlg (and
> making it ANSI call Unicode in the process), and adding BiDi to the edit
> control. If you feel you have something else that may be of interest to
> him, feel free to try and grab him away :-)

Also, a nice project would be winecfg. It's not too difficult, it's
self contained, it's important to Wine.

[Mark Westcott]

On Sunday 27 July 2003 14:26, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> On July 27, 2003 01:38 am, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> > Currently at hand are adding encoding selection to the font dlg (and
> > making it ANSI call Unicode in the process), and adding BiDi to the edit
> > control. If you feel you have something else that may be of interest to
> > him, feel free to try and grab him away :-)
>
> Also, a nice project would be winecfg. It's not too difficult, it's
> self contained, it's important to Wine.

It's also increadibly boring, which probably explains why at least 3 people 
have started work on it and then stopped :).  Patch comming

Mark

[Philipp Wollermann]

Hi,

I don't think it's boring, I like coding tools like this. :-)
If there is a base to work on (and I finally get a new monitor, my current
one is so unsharp / old, I can't read these antialiased fonts anymore ;-)) I
think I could do some work on it..

Philipp

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Westcott" 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: Work for hire^H^H^H^Hgrade
> On Sunday 27 July 2003 14:26, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> > On July 27, 2003 01:38 am, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> > > Currently at hand are adding encoding selection to the font dlg (and
> > > making it ANSI call Unicode in the process), and adding BiDi to the

edit
> > > control. If you feel you have something else that may be of interest

to
> > > him, feel free to try and grab him away :-)
> >
> > Also, a nice project would be winecfg. It's not too difficult, it's
> > self contained, it's important to Wine.
>
> It's also increadibly boring, which probably explains why at least 3

people
> have started work on it and then stopped :).  Patch comming
>
> Mark

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On July 27, 2003 11:42 am, Mark Westcott wrote:
> It's also increadibly boring, which probably explains why at least 3 people
> have started work on it and then stopped :).  Patch comming

Where, where?

:)))