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google summer of code 2010

I just checked the list of accepted projects for google summer of code (1025). Here is the list of those projects, which are interesting in my humble opinion:

• Optimizing rendering of XBMC and aiding the port to ARM
• USB sniffer on Beagle Board (The Beagle Board is used as hardware USB sniffer)
• USB drivers for libpayload (Boot from USB support for coreboot)
• flashrom 1.0 (advanced flashing of BIOS chips)
• MultiArch support in APT (making use of x86 compability on x86-64)
• Debian-installer on Neo FreeRunner
• Implementing a multicast package download method for APT
• git-remote-svn | Native SVN support in Git
• Libgit2
• Ease: presentation authoring tool (using clutter and vala)
• GTK+ refactoring to make possible GTK+ 3
• 3D support (for gstreamer)
• VDPAU support (for gstreamer)
• Cairo rendering (for inkscape)
• Wireless Linux - Improve wireless roaming (for linux)
• Porting Canola to Maemo 5 and beyond
• Addition of Multi-touch and Gesture Recognition support to SDL
• XRender Support (for SDL)
• Cairo State Tracker (for Xorg using Gallium3D)
• Content-aware Config Files Upgrading (for Debian)