I can see how my idea may not fit openembedded exactly. I guess I just 
decided to try here first, as OE is not only the build-system, but also 
the base for many distros, most of which work closely with OE. If OE is 
not the right place, I will most definitely check with Angstrom, I just 
thought I should check here first. Thanks for the input.

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Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
> <summatusmentis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm a first year Computer Science major interested in participating in
>>  Google Summer of Code. What's the process for doing this in OE? Is there
>>  a process? Who should I talk to about mentoring? Are there any projects
>>  that I could do? I'm relatively familiar with OE, specifically Angstrom,
>>  as I have a two Zaurii, a C3200 and an SL-5500.
>>
>>  I don't know of anything specific about OE that's not fully functional,
>>  although, one project I was thinking about was a GUI video player, as a
>>  frontend for mplayer.
> 
> Your idea sounds great, and there happens a lot of
> kernel/drivers/library/application programming, but your idea does not
> fit OpenEmbedded itself very well, because OpenEmbedded is the build
> system.
> 
> However, one of the developers or maintainers might be interested to
> mentor you, who knows.
> 
> I would suggest to also ask around elsewhere though, at least bring
> this up on the related handhelds mailing lists, angstrom might already
> be more on topic then oe.
> 
> Good luck!!