Remove difficulty and language specifiers

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diff --git a/doc/google-soc2009-ideas.txt b/doc/google-soc2009-ideas.txt
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+++ b/doc/google-soc2009-ideas.txt
@@ -25,12 +25,6 @@ Mentors:       Russell Bryant
 --- Project Ideas --------------------------------------------------------------
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-Project difficulty is listed on a 1 through 5 scale.  A 1 would be a project
-appropriate for a college student with familiarity with C programming, but no
-experience with the Asterisk code base, or even Asterisk itself.  A project with
-a difficulty of 5 would be something appropriate for a student that already has
-significant experience with the Asterisk code base.
-
 1) There are a number of projects that fall into the category of improving and
    creating new interfaces for developers to interface with Asterisk.  To get a
    bit of an idea for the higher level vision of this effort, see the following
@@ -54,9 +48,6 @@ significant experience with the Asterisk code base.
       be converted as time permits.  Note that this may end up sharing some code
       with the "data put" interface in part b.
 
-      Difficulty - 2
-      Language   - C
-
    b) Create a generic "data put" layer for Asterisk components to allow
       external interfaces to update configuration items, as opposed to having
       to issue a full configuration reload to account for a single change.
@@ -65,9 +56,6 @@ significant experience with the Asterisk code base.
       as time permits.  Note that this may end up sharing some code with the
       "data get" interface in part a.
 
-      Difficulty - 2
-      Language   - C
-
    c) Improve the performance of cache handling in the event core.  The event
       API in Asterisk provides a generic interface for subscribing to and
       publishing asynchronous events.  It also provides a caching mechanism for
@@ -79,9 +67,6 @@ significant experience with the Asterisk code base.
       benchmark the performance of the caching mechanism, and then implement a
       new storage mechanism that is more efficient.
 
-      Difficulty - 3
-      Language   - C
-
    d) Develop a method for federating Asterisk servers using distributed events
       with a transport suitable for communication beyond a LAN.  The current
       event infrastructure includes ways to hook in and distribute events
@@ -90,9 +75,6 @@ significant experience with the Asterisk code base.
       project would be to implement a new event distribution module using a
       protocol such as XMPP, or something else if deemed appropriate.
 
-      Difficulty - 2
-      Language   - C
-
    e) Implement a method that makes it very easy to add synchronous hooks 
       throughout the code base.  Hooks are arbitrary callbacks within the 
       internals of asterisk where external components can modify asterisk's 
@@ -105,9 +87,6 @@ significant experience with the Asterisk code base.
       of a Dial command, or a transfer hook to execute business logic when a 
       SIP REINVITE is received).
 
-      Difficulty - 3
-      Language   - C
-
    f) Asterisk has a relatively new generic asynchronous event API. While it 
       has been implemented in several areas of the code base, one place where 
       it has not been utilized but would make a great fit would be to replace 
@@ -123,9 +102,6 @@ significant experience with the Asterisk code base.
       modify the existing manager interface to use the ast_event API to handle
       receiving events from inside of Asterisk to send to manager clients.
        
-      Difficulty - 3
-      Language   - C
-
 2) This section contains projects related to Voicemail support in Asterisk.
 
    a) Extract the support for storage backends into an API to reduce code
@@ -137,9 +113,6 @@ significant experience with the Asterisk code base.
       generation voicemail implementation, or potentially other things in
       Asterisk that would like to use these interfaces.
 
-      Difficulty - 3
-      Language   - C
-
    b) One feature that has been widely desired for Asterisk voicemail is the
       ability to customize menu layout.  This project would be to improve
       existing code, or develop a new voicemail application that supports
@@ -150,9 +123,6 @@ significant experience with the Asterisk code base.
       student work on a project to create a new voicemail system that included
       these features that has some work left to be completed.
 
-      Difficulty - 4
-      Language   - C
-
 3) This section includes projects related to improving the Asterisk console and
    logging interfaces.
 
@@ -161,18 +131,12 @@ significant experience with the Asterisk code base.
       However, it would be extremely useful to allow a verbose setting per
       console, and per log file that verbose output is being sent to.
 
-      Difficulty - 1
-      Language   - C
-
    b) Improve Asterisk logging such that advanced filtering is available at the
       console so that output related to a single call is available without
       having to see the output for other calls.  Lack of support for debugging
       individual calls has been a long standing difficulty for Asterisk
       administrators on busy systems.
 
-      Difficulty - 1
-      Language   - C
-   
    c) In addition to being used as an administrative interface, the Asterisk
       console can also be used for making calls using the system audio and
       video interfaces.  In this sense, Asterisk can be used as a highly
@@ -184,9 +148,6 @@ significant experience with the Asterisk code base.
       and contact lists, controlling the active audio source for a call, and
       adding standard telephone buttons.
 
-      Difficulty - 3
-      Language   - C
-
 4) This section includes projects related to internationalization.
 
    a) One of the projects that Luigi Rizzo previously worked on was replacing
@@ -198,9 +159,6 @@ significant experience with the Asterisk code base.
       number, and also adding more languages to the sample configuration file
       that is distributed with Asterisk.
 
-      Difficulty - 3
-      Language   - C
-
 5) This section includes projects related to portability to other operating
    systems.
 
@@ -212,9 +170,6 @@ significant experience with the Asterisk code base.
       things work properly.  Also, it would be most excellent to get a console
       channel driver functioning in cygwin (chan_oss, chan_console, etc.).
 
-      Difficulty - 3
-      Language   - C
-
 6) There are a number of potential projects that could be done to improve
    security in Asterisk.  A document that lists some of the security challenges
    currently faced and some ideas for improvements that could be made can be
@@ -222,9 +177,6 @@ significant experience with the Asterisk code base.
 
    http://astridevcon.pbwiki.com/Network-Security-Framework
 
-   Difficulty - 1 to 5
-   Language   - C
-
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