freedesktop.org needs you. Every single one of you. We need hackers, documentors, translators, accountants, whatever. If you have too many hours in the day, or you're bored, or whatever, *please* consider helping freedesktop.org out.

The best way to get involved is with an individual project: I understand that D-BUS could do with some extra hacking love, and it definitely needs its documentation fleshed out. I don't know how HAL's going. There are lots of other projects. Modular X needs help.

Look through TODOs, do what needs to be done, and send the result to lists. Go through Bugzilla and fix what you can. The cool stuff coming out of freedesktop.org doesn't just happen as the result of an accident with a particle accelerator and a goat: it only happens when people hack on it.

Damnit.

Does anyone know libdl well enough to help me track down a really weird bug? I've built an X server with what seems to be a reasonably well-working loader, except libdl seems to completely ignore RTLD_LAZY and resolve all symbols nownownow. Which doesn't work so well when you consider that the ati, atimisc, r128 and radeon modules all interdepend, so immediate symbol resolution will always bite you. If you want to have a bash, grab the latest tarball *AND* diff from fd.o/~daniel.