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C Bounties

Bounty for compiling Democracy Player on Windows with GNU tools

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

From: Participatory Culture Foundation
Bounty: $500
Skills needed: Python, C++, Windows Build Environment Experience

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Studio 2005 came out Visual Studio 2003 products are no longer available for retail sale and the toolkit compiler has been replaced by Visual C++ Express Edition 2005.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

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Apache mod_rewrite

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

From: joh6nn

Description: From my end-user perspective, Apache’s mod_rewrite could stand a rewrite. I’d like to pay someone to make that happen. Mod_rewrite is an apache module written in C. You’d do well to have at least some experience with both.

Total bounty ($) offered: $500

For more info: https://www.fundable.org/groupactions/mod_rewrite

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Nintendo DS Wifi Bounty

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

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

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Cherokee Bounty - [ENGAGED]

Monday, December 26th, 2005

Cherokee is a flexible, very fast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable and extensible with plug-ins. It supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings, TLS/SSL (via GNUTLS or OpenSSL), virtual hosts, authentication, cache friendly features, PHP, custom error management, and much more.

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!

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Cherokee Bounty

Monday, December 26th, 2005

Cherokee is a flexible, very fast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable and extensible with plug-ins. It supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings, TLS/SSL (via GNUTLS or OpenSSL), virtual hosts, authentication, cache friendly features, PHP, custom error management, and much more.

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.

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

AROS Bounty

Monday, December 26th, 2005

Team AROS is a grass roots support group for AROS, and has a number of open source bounties available for completion. The following project is worth $336:

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

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GNOME Bounty - Mailer

Monday, December 19th, 2005

GNOME has a number of open source bounties available for completion, ranging in difficulty and payout. The following Mailer project is worth $400:

Language selection in composer

Add a pop-up menu to the composer toolbar for selecting the language. This would affect the default spell-checking dictionary, the “On DATE, PERSON said:” attribution, the Content-Language header, and various other things.

Visit the GNOME site for more information

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

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

GNOME Bounty - Mailer

Monday, December 19th, 2005

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

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.

Visit the GNOME site for more information

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

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