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-* [[GSoC 2011]]
-* [[Code-In]] (contains some ideas)
+[[!meta title="Project proposals for NetBSD"]]
+
+Welcome to the NetBSD projects central!
+
+This page contains a non-exhaustive list of project proposals that either
+immediately benefit NetBSD or are of general interest to NetBSD and the
+Open Source Community.  Most of the projects listed here have at least one
+NetBSD developer who has expressed interest and would be willing to
+assist/oversee the implementation to a certain degree.
+
+If you are interested in working on any of these projects, please contact
+the mailing list referenced next to each item, and possibly answer as many
+questions from our [[application]] as possible.  The interested developers
+will be glad to respond to you there.
+
+Some of the projects have timing estimates.  Times are estimated
+conservatively, for a single person working full time on the project.  An
+experienced developer, with knowledge of the changed subsystem/area of
+code, will probably be able to complete the project in half or less of the
+estimated time.  As with all estimates, they might be wrong though -- in
+both directions.  Other projects include more research or have no hard
+target for other reasons.  For these projects no estimate is given.
+
+# General indexes
+
+* [[All projects, one per page|/projects/all]].  Broken down by category and difficulty.
+* [[All projects, one page|/projects/all-flat]].  Includes an Atom/RSS feed providing notifications of changes to any project.
+* [[Funded projects|/projects/funded]].  These projects have been pre-approved for monetary funding.
+* [[Brainstorming of project proposals|/projects/ideas]].  Be aware that the projects in this page are not well-defined.  They are just additional ideas that you may want to consider.
+* [[Completed projects|/projects/done]].  The archive of completed projects, for reference purposes only.  You may not send applications for these.
+
+# Program-specific indexes
+
+* [[Google Summer of Code|gsoc]]
+* [[Google Code-In|code-in]] (contains some ideas)