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Episode: 683
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Title: HPR0683: Xorg GSoC call for students
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0683/hpr0683.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-08 00:48:09
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Have a great night.
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Hey everybody, this is Marcos. This is like my tenth attempt at recording my first
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hacker public radio podcast, so bear with me please. Thanks to Ken Fallon, all those
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guys who are setting all this up, it's really cool. I like it and I'm hoping this won't
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be my last contribution, my last podcast. I am here to talk a little bit about Xorg and
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the Google Summer of Code projects. So as most of you probably know, X.org is the graphical
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windowing system that's underneath the GUI on Linux, BSD's, Unix, plenty, plenty of
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computers use it and you probably all don't even realize what it is exactly. Okay, that's
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kind of stupid. Anyway, yeah, so I'm here to contribute students, specifically college
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students or just any students over the age of 18. We have projects that the Xorg needs
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help with, things like Wayland for any of you following X-Project. Wayland is potentially
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the next X-12. We have need work on color management, we've got some gallium, there's a H-264
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decoder we need some help with, we've got gallium state trackers, we've got OpenGL work,
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we've got multi-GPU support, some input support for XCB, we've got lots of things that need
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to be done. So if you're interested in helping out at an open source project or X specifically,
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come look us up. You can find us on the mailing list or on the IRC channel, both of which
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you can find from X's main page, main website page, www.x.org. The IRC channel is at freeno.net
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hash XORG and that's on the main page. So, anyway, if you're not a student and you still
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want to help out, either specifically X or just a project in general, that's great too. A lot
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of, there's a lot of nonocoders that want to help and your help is needed and it's valuable.
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So don't be shy just because you're not a coder. That's perfectly cool. We have people who can
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mentor you, bring you up to speed, lots of things to get you going, you know, hook up with
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them and newbies. So, you guys can help each other out. There's lots of options for non-coders
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to help out. If you're not a coder and you're not really that interested in being one but you
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still want to help out, that's cool too. I myself work on my documentation. Maybe someday I'll be
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a developer, but not right now. Right now, I'm trying to round up the documentation. So,
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documentation doesn't thrill you. There's things like build systems, there's things like the
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tenor box, which is the nightly build, I guess it's a build system. There's plenty of other work
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to do and all of it is appreciated. So, please don't be shy, please come look at, help us out.
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Again, that's www.x.org. You can also send me an email in private if you want. My email just
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is marcoz at osource.org. That's m-a-r-c-o-z-at-o-s-o-u-r-c-e.org. Don't be shy. I think I've got
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everything. So, anyway, thanks and I hope to talk to some of you. Bye.
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Thank you for listening to Hack the Public Radio. HPR is sponsored by caro.net. So, head on over to
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all your questions.
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