Need some ideas for small project

[Eric S. Raymond]

Amit Dey <eamitdey at yahoo.com>:
>   I am a newbie to Linux development and I am looking for a small project. 

I've got a possibility for you.

I run a project called 'gpsd'.  It's a daemon that monitors GPSes
attached to your machine. It automatically recognizes and translates
all the funky protocols they use and publishes location information
in a simple format on port 2947.  Project site at <http://gpsd.berlios.de/>.

The gpsd distribution includes test clients.  One of our users suggested
that the test clients should emit audio cues when the GPS acquires or loses
lock.  This is a nice idea for operation while driving.  I have it marked
on my TODO list as a good small project for a newbie.

gpsd is not in Fedora Extras or any other well-known repo, AFAIK.  It
probably should be, as a number of well-known projects (pyGPS, Kismet, 
GPSdrive, gpeGPS, position and roadmap) use it.  We have a specfile
all debugged and tested.

It's a fun project -- eight very capable core developers, a bright user 
community, and a moderately active mailing list.  Because I'm running 
it and I'm kind of obsessive about such things, we have a well-developed
set of tools and procedures for regression testing and code auditing --
good things for a newbie to learn.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>