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:
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.
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Murphy, Ged (Bolton)