Google Summer of Code

[Peter Hutterer]

Hi Jan,

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:24:44AM +0200, Jan Corazza wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm a last year high school student, and I'm interested in contributing to
> the Linux graphics stack through GSoC - personally I'd like to help the
> Wayland project, but wouldn't really mind working on other (lower-level)
> details of the system.
> 
> I was told to 'contact Xorg' on #wayland Freenode, since apparently it
> manages Wayland's involvement in Google Summer of Code.
> 
> Currently don't know much about the graphics stack or Wayland (although I
> was linked to a book on Linux graphics drivers which I am checking out), so
> I would like someone to help me out in narrowing down the scope and subject
> of my potential project.

GSoC finished only a couple of weeks ago and the website says that it's
"off-season" until Feb 3. Until then, I recommend getting familiar with the
code in general, maybe picking a bug or two that affects you and start by
fixing those. That's how most of us got into Xorg development.

Once you start hacking, you'll find that a project of interest will present
itself.

Cheers,
   Peter