> If you are thinking of working on this yourself, I would be interested
> in helping out in any way that I can. I have purchased a couple of books
> [...] specifically for OpenGL programming, and have thought several times
> in the past, that working with someone else, or with a group of others,
> would be a good way to motivate myself to improve my programming skills.

Your OpenGL programming books would be of little help for upgrading an OpenGL implementation. Think of the difference between writing a program in a high-level language and writing a compiler for that high-level language.