http://bountycounty.org Coding bounties for free and open source software projects. Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:02:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From: Guiyo Forward Project Name: Mobile Core Duo support for Darwin Brief project description: Based on the open source kernel sources for the Darwin kernel released by Apple (10.4.8), the objective is to enable the two cores of mobile Core Duo and Core 2 Duo CPUs in a running environment without ... http://bountycounty.org/2006/12/mobile-core-duo-support-for-darwin/ From: Participatory Culture Foundation Bounty: $500 Skills needed: Python, C++, Windows Build Environment Experience Description: Participatory Culture Foundation is offering $500 to anyone who can get Democracy Player for Windows to compile using the GNU tools. Democracy Player is based on Python and uses many Python extensions. Python extensions generally need to be compiled ... http://bountycounty.org/2006/07/bounty-for-compiling-democracy-player-on-windows-with-gnu-tools/ From: David Janes Organization / Company: BlogMatrix First one: Brief project description: Create a plug-in for the Universal Feed Parser to read the MovableType Export Format Skills needed: Python, familiarity with the Universal Feed Parser Total bounty ($) offered: 50 More information: http://blogmatrix.semantic.blogmatrix.com/:entry:blogmatrix-2006-06-19-0001/ Second one: Project Name: Create a proper N3 serializer for rdflib Brief project description: Improve ... http://bountycounty.org/2006/06/two-new-bounties-from-blogmatrix/ 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: ... http://bountycounty.org/2006/06/apache-mod_rewrite/ OpenACS is offering a $100 bounty to develop an include for XOWiki that summaries bug tracker info for each package. For more information, check out the OpenACS message board. http://bountycounty.org/2006/01/openacs-bounty/ 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 ... http://bountycounty.org/2006/01/mark-shuttleworth-bounties/ 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 ... http://bountycounty.org/2005/12/nintendo-ds-wifi-bounty/ 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 ... http://bountycounty.org/2005/12/cherokee-bounty-2/ 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 ... http://bountycounty.org/2005/12/cherokee-bounty/ 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 ... http://bountycounty.org/2005/12/gnome-bounty-optimization-3/