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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: embedded, distribution, Wayland, Linux, framebuffer, packaging