If simply contributing to an Open Source project is not enough, you now have an added incentive. OS2 World.Com has organized an ongoing Bounty hunt together with OS2 User Group Sweden. Listed below are various tasks we would like to see completed or features which have been requested. If you have suggestions for possible bounties, look at the current list of enhancement requests and submit yours if it is not already listed.

As of today we have managed to collect 1335 USD, but we are still missing sponsorship for a lot of suggested bounties and we hope of course to get full sponsorship to all of the suggested bounties.

Following bounties have sponsorship are still open:

$150 - TrueCrypt port
$133 - GemPlus PC400 driver support
$125 - Eclipse.org Standard Windowing Toolkit (SWT) OS/2 Port
$125 - OpenWengo port
$100 - Interface InnoTek's font-engine
$100 - Maul XHTML import handler
$100 - ZGV picture viewer
$90 - OS/2 native port of Java 6
$75 - Common File Open/Save Dialog
$75 - Universal Webcam drivers
$50 - PCMCIA USB 2.0 cards drivers
$42 - Mpeg2Schnitt port
$40 - Icon routines in OS/2
$25 - Porting AbiWord
$25 - Minolta filmscanners
$25 - Skype for OS/2
$20 - GNASH open source Flash 7
$20 - Port of LyX 1.3
$15 - USB extended keyboard driver

Bounties that still are missing sponsorship:

Porting QEMU
64-bit OS/2
OS/2 for Linux
OS/2 native port of Apache Harmony
Porting 7-zip
Freetype/2 based on Freetype 2
OpenGroupWare web based team/group software
BlueTooth Driver Development
OS2 & eCS kernel
Universal PrinTrio - Multifunctional drivers
Synchronising Software for PDAS
USB Wireless Security Lock driver
Universal CardBus drivers

bjorso at os2world dot com

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