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[Shachar Shemesh]

Hi all,

A prof. in a locale university is doing a summer course about open 
source development. I gave them a short power point lecture (on Linux 
:-), and showed them IE running, and managed to hook one vulenteer to do 
his assignment in Wine.

I have managed to interest him in some of open issues that are close to 
my heart (i.e. - BiDi related issues). However, this is far from final. 
I'm sure he would love to hear about other interesting areas, but some 
criteria must be kept.

It must be a task that is moreorless self contained (he is supposed to 
be graded for it at the end), and it must be something known to be 
possible in a reasonable amount of hours (i.e - it can't be 
"implementing MSI"). Then again, it can't be something too trivial (i.e. 
- not "localize notepad").

Currently at hand are adding encoding selection to the font dlg (and 
making it ANSI call Unicode in the process), and adding BiDi to the edit 
control. If you feel you have something else that may be of interest to 
him, feel free to try and grab him away :-)

                Shachar
P.S.
No, I have not dropped of the face of the planet, and I still read this 
list. Just too busy to be doing anything useful (except hiring other 
working hands, which may count for something, I guess). I'll be back, 
though.

-- 
Shachar Shemesh
Open Source integration consultant
Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/