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+[[!meta title="Wayland and Weston packages"]]
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+Wayland is a protocol that specifies the communication between a display server
+and its clients as well as a pair of C libraries implementing that protocol.
+Weston is a reference implementation of a Wayland compositor, with various
+compositor backends, graphical shells, example clients, and more.  Wayland and
+Weston are modern and simple replacements for the X Window System, including the
+display server, window manager, protocols, and libraries.
+
+ProteanOS aims to provide a graphical user interface and applications based on
+Wayland and Weston.  To do this, a number of packages need to be prepared,
+including libffi, wayland, libevdev, libxkbcommon, libinput, eudev, pixman,
+cairo, and weston.  Depending on the student's time and interest, the project
+may be extended to include additional packages from the GTK+ 3 and other GNOME
+library packages project.
+
+  * Mentor: Patrick "P. J." McDermott
+  * Desirable skills: Distribution packaging, familiarity with package build
+    systems like GNU Autoconf and Automake, familiarity with display systems,
+    Git
+  * Project deliverables: ProteanOS packages that enable the Weston compositor
+    and example clients to run on a Linux framebuffer
+  * Difficulty: Medium
+
+Tags: Wayland, Linux, framebuffer, packaging