I still have one exam left; I wonder if e-proctor would be compatible with linux/bsd distros.

About contributing to GNU social; In fact, the tasks concerning your original application are being handled by the accepted student. But v2 wasn't released as stable and there are pending tasks still. There's nothing frontend related pending tho, all v2 pending tasks are backend: https://loadaverage.org/url/5969594

If you would like to help us out on the backend, we've compiled a list of study resources here: https://www.diogo.site/projects/GNU-social/soc/2020/study_resources.html .

On the frontend is harder because SoC students are required to do their tasks on their own/individually... On the other hand, it's predicted that @portableskelly finishes his tasks this month so, you can try talking with him on XMPP and maybe you can agree on doing something on v3 frontend during August :)

Finally, there currently are 24 open bugs concerning v2: https://loadaverage.org/url/5969595 , many of them are easy to fix/beginner friendly.