GNU Help Wanted Items - Summary
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In the 20 years since the GNU Project's inception we've written and released an impressive body of work. We're not done yet, and we've got some ideas for Free Software programs that still need to be written.
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Registration Date: Mon 17 Feb 2003 09:22:36 PM UTC
License: GNU Free Documentation License
Development Status: 6 - Mature
posted by toby, Mon 29 Jun 2009 01:03:12 AM UTC - 0 replies
For many years we've had an entry on the games tasklist item for "A realistic train-driving simulator." I've found two projects that might satisfy this requirement: http://www.openttd.org/ (which is GPL licensed) and http://openbve.trainsimcentral.co.uk/ which is public domain. Both take different approaches to the idea of simulating train traffic, and both look pretty interesting in their own ways.
posted by toby, Wed 27 May 2009 11:36:33 AM UTC - 0 replies
We used to have a job posting for volunteers to make a Free Software replacement for Google Earth. This is now an FSF High Priority project (see http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html#gereplacment) so there's no longer a need to duplicate it on this task list.
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posted by toby, Tue 02 Sep 2008 12:43:15 AM UTC - 0 replies
For a very long time, the task list has had an item "If you're up for a "grand challenge" you can tackle a problem that's frustrated computer scientists and linguists for almost 40 years: translating one natural language into another." We recently learned about Apertium (http://www.apertium.org/) which appears to be making good progress on this task. If you're interested in natural language translation then we'd recommend that you take a look at Apertium.
posted by toby, Wed 25 Oct 2006 03:40:13 PM UTC - 0 replies
I added a new task to the tasklist to improve the Free documentation for MySQL. The MySQL relational database is Free Software, but the documentation provided by MySQL AB is non-Free. There's a project to document MySQL at WikiBooks (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MySQL) and we encourage anyone that's interested in MySQL (or SQL in general) to contribute.
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