Help Wanted

More help is needed and actively sought by the maintainers of these packages. Please also look at writing free software both for lists of other projects needing doing, and for general guidelines. Please email <webmasters@gnu.org> if you have a GNU package which you want to have listed here.

GNU Bayonne is looking for help in the following areas:
1. documentation review, localization, and improvement
2. help with foreign language voice libraries
3. creation of additional GNU Bayonne demo applications
4. integrating GNU Bayonne more fully with GNU Enterprise
5. testing of different voice telephony hardware
Guile needs people to write translators to convert additional languages into Scheme. Providing parser-generator facilities (perhaps by giving Bison the ability to generate Scheme code, or in some other method) would be helpful for writing translators.
GNU Pipo-BBS
The GNU Pipo-BBS project has decided to make major changes in the code and to the organization of the package and is therefore actively seeking help with this.
GNU Enterprise
Wanted: People interested in business economics or any of the related areas listed on the home page.
XBase
Wanted: The following tasks/position are needed/open for the xbase project:
1. Administration:
  a) Migrate the xbase project source code and mailing list off the xbase/startech server to the GNU public servers
2. Marketing
  a) Increase awareness of the xbase project
3. Programming tasks
  a) Develop additional indexing logic to make the xbase project even more compatible with existing legacy applications. In particular .MDX, and .CDX index file formats.
  b) Continued development of locking logic which is compatible with other existing xbase type tools.
For information, contact <Gary Kunkel>.
3DLDF
3DLDF is looking for volunteers to help with the following tasks:
1. Porting to other architectures.
2. Programming functions for finding the intersections of plane geometric figures.
3. Improving the functions for constructing polyhedra.
4. Implementing an input routine using Flex and Bison.
5. Writing routines for interfacing with modelling and/or rendering software.
GNU CSSC needs your help!
CSSC is a nearly complete re-implementation of SCCS. It has an extensive test suite, but a single known bug (this bug does not affect the majority of users, but a minority of users are thoroughly inconvenienced by it). Test cases exist for this bug.
It is estimated that there is about a week's work in fixing the problem. The test suite is extensive enough that a limited understanding of the way that CSSC (or SCCS) works is not a problem; that is, if you accidentally break anything, the test suite will tell you.
If you want to help, please email the current maintainer, James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>. A detailed synopsis of the problem is available on CSSC's page.
PIKT
Wanted: Volunteers to work on a GUI interface, to add security extensions and do a thorough security audit, also to help rewrite the pikt script interpreter (basing it most likely on the GNU Guile extension language). If interested, please contact <robert.osterlund@gsb.uchicago.edu>.
The Free Software Directory

Volunteers are needed to help compile a directory of known free software. This task entails downloading free software packages, digging up information about these packages, and checking and verifying the licenses of the programs.
If you are interested in volunteering for this task, please contact <bug-directory@gnu.org>.

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Updated: $Date: 2004/07/27 22:22:32 $ $Author: rao $