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Studio 2005 came out Visual Studio 2003 products are no longer available for retail sale and the toolkit compiler has been replaced by Visual C++ Express Edition 2005.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.

More Information: Here

For more information, check out the OpenACS message board.

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
• More information about Python Scripting bounties

For a detailed decscription of the bounty engagement process, please visit Mark’s bounty page.

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

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

Visit the Cherokee site for more information

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

Visit the Cherokee site for more information

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

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!

Getting AROS run hosted on OS-X

Need OS-X enabled hardware, C skills and knowledge of AROS or AmigaOS coding.

Visit the Team AROS site for more information

Create a test suite for browsing in Nautilus

A test case is needed for Nautilus doing a long session of browsing. This test case can be used to detect leaks, using tools such as valgrind. The test case should use the LDTP project. It should do the following:

• Put Nautilus in the root directory (/)
• Spider around across different folders
• Use various views (browser, spatial, as icons, as a list)
• Be able to account for the fact that under valgrind, things will not happen fast (so it must wait)

Visit the GNOME site for more information

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

Add image data to the icon cache

For the GTK 2.6 release, a memory mappable icon cache was developed. This allows us to avoid scanning lots of directories on the startup of every application. However, one thing it does not do is to store the actual icon data in a shared file. This means that common images (consider the “x” on a close button) are duplicated many times.

Visit the GNOME site for more information

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