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Mark Shuttleworth Bounties

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:41:56 +0000

Mark Shuttleworth is an African entrepreneur with a love of technology, innovation and space flight. In 2004, his operating budget for software development bounties was $100,000.

The following projects are all a part of Mark’s bounty program. For details on how to begin, contact Thomas Black, program manager for Open Source at The Shuttleworth Foundation, for more details.

More information about Ubuntu bounties
More information about SchoolTool bounties, an open source school administration system developed in Python
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For a detailed decscription of the bounty engagement process, please visit Mark’s bounty page.

Nintendo DS Wifi Bounty

admin — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 02:24:36 +0000

The Nintendo DS WiFi Bounty is a project to generate freely available, license unencumbered internet connectivity libraries for the Nintendo DS, for use with a portable C or C compiler (primarily GCC.)

Bounty: $3,010.45 (and counting)

Success hinges around distributing source which can achieve TCP or UDP connections over IP to a wireless router through the NDS’ custom wireless networking hardware, as well as documentation for the hardware and a tiny demonstration application which verifies two-way communication with another TCP or UDP enabled device (presumably a PC.)

Programming skills: Portable C or C, the ability to develop embedded software, a familiarity with 802-group wireless technologies, and a familiarity with IP-based communications protocols.

Visit the DS Wifi Bounty site for more information

GNOME Bounty - Optimization [ENGAGED]

admin — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:39:12 +0000

GNOME has a number of open source bounties available for completion, ranging in difficulty and payout. The following Optimization project is worth $4,500:

Global memory analysis tool

Global memory analysis tool. A tool that lets you look at the memory usage of all running GNOME programs and help account for where the memory is going. Must properly account for sharing of memory between processes.

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Michael Langford, a research scientist in computing at Georgia Tech Research Institute, has taken on this project. Good luck, Michael!

GNOME Bounty - Calendar

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:46:02 +0000

GNOME has a number of open source bounties available for completion, ranging in difficulty and payout. The following Calendar project is worth $2000:

Publish your calendar

Apple’s iCal has made “calendar sharing” popular. It’s a nice feature where any user can create a calendar of events and then publish it on a website, to share it with other users. Others can then “subscribe” their calendar application to that calendar file, and updates are automatically synced to their imported calendar whenever the master file changes. This makes it easy and convenient to share conference schedules, meeting times, club events, moving dates and times and so on.

Implement this calendar publishing feature in Evolution.

Visit the GNOME site for more information

If you take on this project, please let us know so we can remove the listing.

GNOME Bounty - IM

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:12:58 +0000

GNOME has a number of open source bounties available for completion, ranging in difficulty and payout. The following IM project is worth $2000:

Gaim/Evolution presence integration

We want the notion of “presence” to be integrated into the entire desktop, wherever the user encounters a person or a reference to a person.

Visit the GNOME site for more information

If you take on this project, please let us know so we can remove the listing.