Description: Participatory Culture Foundation is offering $500 to anyone who can get Democracy Player for Windows to compile using the GNU tools.

Democracy Player is based on Python and uses many Python extensions. Python extensions generally need to be compiled with the same compiler as Python. The official version of Python is compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ 2003. This isn’t likely to change. At one point, Microsoft was offering a no-cost command-line only version of this compiler called the “Visual C++ 2003 Toolkit.” This was hard to set up and use, but it at least gave volunteers a way to compile the program. However, since Visual Studio 2005 came out Visual Studio 2003 products are no longer available for retail sale and the toolkit compiler has been replaced by Visual C++ Express Edition 2005. It is illegal for us to distribute the VC++2003 toolkit. So, we’re forced to buy second hand copies of Visual C++ 2003 each time a new developer wants to work on Democracy for Windows.

We want to avoid these kinds of entanglements in the future, so we’re offering $500 to anyone who can come up with a clear, simple set of instructions to build Democracy for Windows using the GNU tools.

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Project: Traffic Shaping
Bounty: $500

Cherokee should be able to manage the server traffic based on some rules. This task requires the implementation of a subsystem with the following abilities:

• Set the max download speed by connection
• Set the max throughput of a virtual server
• Set the max throughput of the whole server

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Manu has taken on this bounty. Good luck, Manu!

Project: FastCGI support
Bounty: $700

There is work in progress to support FastCGI on Cherokee. With this task we want to ensure that Cherokee has excelent FastCGI support as soon as possible. It has to support:

• Unix sockets and TCP sockets
• Spawning new servers
• Round Robin between servers
• Some QA tests to ensure it works

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Templates for new messages and replies

We would like to allow people to prepare their own message templates. The templates will be stored in a Templates folder and may contain patterns which will be substituted when the template is used.

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Bugzilla tasks backend

Evolution and the GNOME project as a whole both use Bugzilla to track bugs. Since Evolution is used by many GNOME developers, it would be useful to have some degree of integration with Bugzilla.

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Each of the following large projects are worth $500:

• Add a file rating system, allowing users to collectively rate fake/garbage/good/excellent files
• A mini LimeWire to handle magnets
• Search for quoted phrases, for instance “LimeWire Rocks” would find only results with “LimeWire Rocks” and not find “LimeWire on the Rocks”
• User identity through dynamic DNS or similar technique
• Better chat using standardized protocols, such as Jabber
• New front-end that allows control of LimeWire via a web browser
• Network monitoring and patrol tools to route out offenders
• Client-side ability to read RSS feeds containing magnets and download selected files

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Limewire Bounty Wish List

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Total bounty amount: $700

Skills: Linux, Python

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