My home server, and my other box hosting https://sysrich.co.uk are both in need of a bit of a refresh While I could be nice and conservative and pick an openSUSE regular release, I'm actually considering using openSUSE Tumbleweed, and fully embracing the 'Servers as Cattle' concept

Rust, the new language from Mozilla Foundation, is a modern systems programming language focusing on safety and speed. It accomplishes these goals by being memory safe without using garbage collection. Go, D and Nim have GC integrated into the language and the standard libraries. The GC in Rust is integrated as an external library.

Get openSUSE running in parallel to Android on a regular and rooted Android Smartphone. On top of this try to get a graphical desktop running using Xvnc available for Android.

Cover more cornercases for spec-cleaner to allow the swap of formatspecfile due to its bugginess in comparsion.

Continue on the started CHDK (Canon Hack Developer Kit) for libgphoto2 support. Work on various other libgphoto2 camera things over the week too.

We have some internal systems for videoconferencing like Big Blue Button or OpenMeetings. But in my experience none of them can compare to Google Hangouts, which is still the best free (as in free beer) alternative for videoconferencing with integrated screen sharing. While implementing an alternative to Sqwiggle on previous hackweek, I discovered Janus, a lightweight WebRTC gateway that proved to be a quite capable tool to implement video applications.

In the YaST installer, make disk encryption method, mode, key strength, random source etc configurable. The rationale is that user requirements may differ, and we would like to offer some advanced options instead of changing defaults.

Create a user interface useable with a see through head mounted display. The display was created from some Chinese video glasses and has a low resolution (320x240) which requires a optimized user interface that also is useful when using it hands free. The existing Head mounted display: https://jamballa.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/steampunked-hmd-1st-iteration/

Using an arduino nano, a rf23b (http://www.hoperf.com/rf/fsk_module/RFM23BP.htm) wireless module (or anything like it) and a solar panel to build a mesh network node that can be used to quickly deploy wireless networks. The connection between the nodes will be serial, a endpoint will have an additional wlan module connected so it will be possible to use the mesh network for normal wlan enabled devices.