== Google Summer Of Code 2009 Ideas for Haiku ==

'''Here's a list of some of the ideas that have been discussed on the [http://www.freelists.org/archive/haiku-development/ Haiku Development Mailing List]'''[[BR]]

 * usb_webcam driver
  - make it portable to other OSes
  - fix bugs
  - add more webcams

 * usb_video (UVC) driver -- for higher end webcams and other devices

 * GCC4 Native toolchain

 * DriveSetup -- finish implementation

 * bootman -- finish implementation

 * IPv6 support

 * Improve "ata" bus_manager (adding DMA and ATAPI support) - assuming it's still not finished by GSoC time that is

 * Improve PCI bus_manager resource-allocation/management (see tickets: #3 #4 #5 )

 * Port (any) 3d driver to our hardware-acceleration plugin model (perhaps either the Intel, or AMD reference drivers?)

 * Complete the port of FreeBSD wireless stack and at least one driver (would depend on progress made in the meantime I guess)

 * Add BFS support to FUSE (so other OSes could read/write BFS volumes)

 * Add PCMCIA support

 * Add ExpressCard support (not sure what would actually be needed for this, but at least hot-pluggable support on top of PCIe I suppose)

 * Media Encoding support see ticket #1043 others?

 * Testing infrastructure for the media add-ons.

 * Generic S/PDIF support in media kit, ie not special cased by the application

 * AC-3 encoding support -> S/PDIF, for 5.1 support to receivers in Media Kit

 * Add support to OpenBFS for SSD, Transparent compression, Allocate-on-flush, Online defragmentation, Sparse files, Delayed allocation, Persistent preallocation, and Journal checksumming like Btrfs and ext4 http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4  

 * Improve multi-byte support (see tickets #215 #840 #976 #1855 #2241 others?) There is also a huge Unicode support library we could port: http://icu-project.org/

 * Implement a CIFS module.


== Sharing tasks with other projects ==

 * AbiWord: update/redo the BeOS port.

 * OpenOffice: Some steps have been documented on the [http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project/Effort#Applications_for_Haiku_port EducOOo wiki] and it was planned on doing it as part of it, but maybe some steps could be done as SoC.

 * VideoLAN: update the port and rewrite the BeOS GUI.

 * Scribus: we could also port this Publisher-like app, http://www.scribus.net/

 * OpenJDK didn't seem to have participated, but maybe they would help with the java port.

 * NetSurf port: NetSurf participated last year and is planning this year's tasks. Again having a common task might appeal to Google.
  - improve Haiku support (GUI, bookmark/cache/download backends, printing, prefs, ...).

 * Eclipse: we could probably use a native eclipse toolkit port, once we get Java :)

 * Cairo: BeOS/Haiku specific code needs updating, we need that for Firefox, AbiWord, and probably other things too...

 * BZFlag: Was ported to BeOS long ago, updating the port would probably not be enough for a single task, but might keep
someone busy after he's done with his job :)

 * ARM port: Handhelds.org participated in 2007, maybe they'd be interested in sponsoring an ARM port

 * Mono: partial port was started in 2008.

 * wxWidget: there is a port started (called wxBeOS), but no one had time to finish it.

 * WINE: port to Haiku

 * Continue WebKit Port
  -syncing ryan's most recent code with the latest svn/git/whatever tree.
  -removing bugs and other issues on it

 * Transmission update the BeOS GUI to work with branch 1.4x's GUI