[ros-dev] ros development tasks as student thesis works?

[Murphy, Ged (Bolton)]

Eduard Glatz wrote:
> Now the question arised
> if there would be an interest in student thesis works 
> as contributions to the reactos project.
> 
> An overview of thesis works completed in the area of 
> systems software can be found under:
> 
> http://windows.hsr.ch/studienarbeiten.html

Many of the listed topic areas are either not relevant or too advanced for
ReactOS to support at the moment.

> If there is an interest in such contributions then 
> we will have to discuss next the type of suitable tasks.

If the standard of work is high enough, i.e. if the student(s) are
proficient in C and NT programming, then there would certainly be great
interest from the ReactOS project in something like this.

However, even if the standard of work was not particularly high, we would
still encourage people to try and we would help in any way we could (or were
permitted to). The only concern from submitting low quality work would be
that it may not make it into the final ReactOS source code.

A few good examples of things we are looking for are listed in our 2006
Google Summer of Code page.
Two good contributions we received from this was a Windows clipboard
implementation and Remote Desktop.

Some suggestions are:
- Network card drivers
- mmc.exe replacement
- printer spooler support
- Explorer theming
- a choice of directx dlls
- bug fixing or improvements to a large choice of operating system
components.
- choosing existing win32 software, and ensuring ReactOS has the relevant
support to run it.
  e.g. Apache, Ms Office, Photoshop, AutoCAD


Hope this helps.
Ged.