[gentoo-soc] Adding Portage Features or Wireless Support

[Colleen Josephson]

I am Colleen Josephson, a second year MIT student interested in programming
for Gentoo's Summer of Code.
I've been a Gentoo user for 4-5 years, and it is my primary operating
system. I have done some larger scale projects
(Audacious plugins, a Python sound synthesizer), and have familiarity with
source control, but I have never developed for the open source community
before.
I am most familiar with Python at this point, but I know some Java and C and
would enjoy working with those languages as well.

I am potentially interested in the Portage Tags project, or something
involving improving the wireless support for Gentoo installs.
Potential expansions to the Portage projects I am considering are improving
the search speed, and an auto-complete similar to Debian's.
As far as the wireless, I've noticed that the #1 most difficult part or my
last 3 Gentoo installs has been setting up wireless correctly, and
this difficulty is often a deterrent for trying out Gentoo among my peers. I
know this can be an area of contention because of the number
of closed source drivers, but I think it could be a worthwhile improvement.
Any feedback on this is appreciated.

These ideas are very incomplete, but I look forward to your responses so I
can improve upon them.

Finally, could somebody point me to a good bug to fix in bugzilla as per the
application guidelines?

Thanks,
Colleen Josephson
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Class of 2013