I am not a developer yet, but I would like to suggest some idea possibilities:

Minix port of Gentoo
Illumos port of Gentoo
LLVM/Clang System Compiler Support
ICC System Compiler Support (probably easier than LLVM/Clang)
Port of Gentoo/FreeBSD to amd64 (or other architectures)
Gentoo/FreeBSD KVM port (we don't have to let upstream have all of the fun)
Gentoo Prefix --as-needed support on one or more architectures that
currently lack it
Gentoo Prefix Cygwin support
Gentoo Prefix Minix support

I might be too inexperienced to serve as a mentor this summer,
provided that the recruitment process finishes in time. I would
appreciate it if anyone interested in being a mentor for any of these
ideas adopted them.

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:03 AM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 11:38:47PM -0600, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> <http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2012/Ideas>. If you
>> have project ideas, this is the place to put them. It's critical to also
>> include potential mentors and prerequisite skills so students know which
>> ideas make sense and where to learn more about them.
> For any devs with ideas from the previous years that didn't get chosen,
> the old page is here:
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/soc/ideas.xml
>
> I'm not going to be putting my Upstart idea forward again, due to lack
> of time, and I don't think it's quite suited. Somebody else might want
> to look at the potential of porting OpenRC's oldnet into systemd
> however...
>
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