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        !             2: <head><title>OpenBSD project goals</title></head>
        !             3: <body>
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        !             5: <h1>OpenBSD project goals</h1>
        !             6:
        !             7: Each person working on OpenBSD has their own aims and priorities, but the
        !             8: goals of project as a whole are to:
        !             9:
        !            10: <ul>
        !            11: <li>    Provide the best development platform possible - with
        !            12:         full source access for openbsd developers and users
        !            13: <li>   Work towards a machine independent source tree.
        !            14: <li>    Support as many different systems and hardware as feasible.
        !            15: <li>    Be as politics free as possible - solutions should be
        !            16:         decided on the basis of technical merit.
        !            17: <li>    Provide a good cross compile/development platform.
        !            18: <li>    Integrate good code from any source with acceptable
        !            19:         copyright (Berkeley style preferred, GPL acceptable, NDA not).
        !            20: <li>    Import external packages with minimal modifications -
        !            21:         making upgrading much easier. Also to submit back to the
        !            22:         developers any changes made.
        !            23: </ul>
        !            24:
        !            25: <hr>
        !            26: <h3>Projects looking for a home (Help wanted)</h3>
        !            27:
        !            28: There are various ways in which people who have time to spare can help
        !            29: the OpenBSD project. Some require technical knowledge, while others do not:
        !            30:
        !            31: <ul>
        !            32: <li> <b>Tracking NetBSD commits</b><br>
        !            33:         OpenBSD was originally derived from NetBSD, and still tracks the
        !            34:         changes & improvements made to NetBSD. If you have the time to
        !            35:         assist in such work please get in touch with Niklas Hallqvist
        !            36:         <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>&lt;niklas@openbsd.org&gt;</a>
        !            37: <li> <b>Sparc esp driver</b><br>
        !            38:         The sparc esp scsi driver has two known problems - on some systems
        !            39:         with a floppy drive the scsi probe will hang unless there is a disk
        !            40:         in the drive, and more seriously multiple scsi targets do not
        !            41:         currently work. The current driver was written by Theo de Raadt
        !            42:         <a href=mailto:deraadt@theos.com>&lt;deraadt@theos.com&gt;</a>, but
        !            43:         he is currently on vacation - so contact
        !            44:         <a href=mailto:tech@openbsd.org>&lt;tech@openbsd.org&gt;</a>, but
        !            45: </ul>
        !            46:
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        !            48: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>