diff --git a/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml b/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml
index 93fb819d81..bcea58095a 100644
--- a/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml
+++ b/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Ideas//EN"
 <ideas>
   <cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS" version="1.0">
     <cvs:keyword name="freebsd">
-      $FreeBSD: www/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml,v 1.81 2008/03/29 01:11:08 brooks Exp $
+      $FreeBSD: www/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml,v 1.82 2008/03/29 20:47:25 brooks Exp $
     </cvs:keyword>
   </cvs:keywords>
 
@@ -2215,5 +2215,63 @@ SMP features.</p>
 	</desc>
       </idea>
 
+      <idea class="soc" id="freebsd-gnome-networkmanager">
+	<title>FreeBSD port of NetworkManager</title>
+
+	<desc><p><strong>Technical contact</strong>: <a
+	  href="mailto:marcus@FreeBSD.org">Joe Marcus Clarke</a></p>
+
+    	  <p>This task is to port
+	    <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/">
+	      NetworkManager</a> to FreeBSD.  Porting NetworkManager
+	    will also require some core userland changes to FreeBSD,
+	    especially to ifconfig.</p>
+
+	  <p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
+	  <ul>
+	    <li>C programming skills</li>
+	    <li>Knowledge of the FreeBSD net80211 wireless stack</li>
+          </ul>
+	</desc>
+      </idea>
+
+      <idea class="soc" id="freebsd-gnome-systemtools">
+	<title>Fix FreeBSD support in GNOME's system-tools-backends</title>
+
+	<desc><p><strong>Technical contact</strong>: <a
+	  href="mailto:marcus@FreeBSD.org">Joe Marcus Clarke</a></p>
+
+  	  <p>This task is to fix FreeBSD support in
+	      sysutils/system-tools-backends.</p>
+
+	  <p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
+	  <ul>
+	    <li>Perl programming skills</li>
+	    <li>Knowledge of the FreeBSD system configuration</li>
+          </ul>
+	</desc>
+      </idea>
+
+      <idea class="soc" id="freebsd-gnome-hal">
+	  <title>Extend hal support on FreeBSD</title>
+
+	<desc><p><strong>Technical contact</strong>: <a
+	  href="mailto:marcus@FreeBSD.org">Joe Marcus Clarke</a></p>
+
+  	  <p>This task is to add hal support for some additional
+	    subsystems.  In particular FreeBSD is lacking support for the
+	    ieee1394 (i.e. Firewire), bluetooth, and printer.  Adding
+	    support for these subsystems will require changes to the
+	    FreeBSD kernel.  Those interested should use the latest
+	    <a href="http://www.marcuscom.com/hal-spec/hal-spec.html">
+	      HAL Specification</a> as a guide.</p>
+
+	  <p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
+	  <ul>
+	    <li>C programming skills</li>
+	    <li>Knowledge of the FreeBSD system internals</li>
+          </ul>
+	</desc>
+      </idea>
   </category>
 </ideas>