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'''Student'''
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'''Task Proposal'''
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'''Outcome'''
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'''Code Status'''
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        <p>Sergio Charpinel, Jr.</p>
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        <p>'''Get ISPDB into Production.''' The ISPDB is a
        service to provide domain-specific email account setup information
        for email clients. The task is to finish and deploy it.</p>
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        <p>Much of what was specced was accomplished. Work remaining:
        localization, internationalization and UI improvements.
        </p>
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        <p>Half finished. ISPDB is not yet in production. [https://github.com/mozilla/ispdb Code].</p>
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        <p>Gautam Akiwate</p>
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        <p>'''L10n Tool for Standardization of Terms.'''
        <span class="T2">Design and implementation of a tool,</span>
        <span class="T2">based on Transvision, to provide a terminology
        translation table of standard terms,</span> <span class="T2">plus a
        tool to use it to help with translation of new strings and find
        problems with</span> <span class="T2">existing
        translations.</span></p>
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        <p>The 'Moses' machine translation tool was used, and the product was
        implemented for 4 languages. The translations obtained from the tool
        were sometimes better than the original translations. However,
        languages in which there is not a lot of existing data do not yet
        work well.</p>
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        <p>Prototype implemented. There is a plan to introduce it into the
        Mozilla translation process. [http://aktiwate.com/l10n-tool/ Code].</p>
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        <p>Vikash Agrawal</p>
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        <p>'''HTML5 and CSS3 Examples on MDN.'''
        <span class="T2">Add examples to MDN for these two</span>
        <span class="T2">technologies, to improve our offering.</span></p>
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        <p>Examples were written.</p>
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        <p>Due, to a platform change at MDN, the examples were not put online
        immediately. The plan is to do that in January. [https://github.com/ivikash/Examples-for-the-web/ Code].</p>
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        <p>Kailas Ravsaheb Patil</p>
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        <p>'''User-Specified Content Security Policy.'''
        <span class="T2">Create a tool for Firefox users to specify</span>
        <span class="T2">CSP policies for websites they visit. This helps in
        CSP policy development, and</span> <span class="T2">gives options to
        security-sensitive users.</span></p>
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        <p>A "userCSP" addon was developed that hooks into Firefox's CSP
        implementation to allow a user to specify a policy for a web page,
        and can also calculate policies on the fly for sites visited.</p>
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        <p>The add-on is up on AMO and has been preliminarily reviewed by the
        AMO reviewers. [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/newusercspdesign/ Addon], [https://github.com/patilkr/userCSP Code].</p>
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        <p>Will Nayes</p>
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        <p>'''Instantbird: Account Import Wizard.'''
        <span class="T2">Enhance Instantbird to import</span> user account
        information and settings and logs from the following instant
        messaging clients: AIM, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, mIRC,
        Pidgin, XChat, and Colloquy.</p>
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        <p>A series of importer modules were created to perform the task of
        importing data from each of the supported client programs. User
        account importation for all clients, and log importing for Pidgin,
        mIRC, and XChat, was finished by the end of the summer.</p>
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        <p>The code is in the process of being reviewed before landing. [https://hg.instantbird.org/users/wnayes/ Code].</p>
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        <p>Atul Jangra</p>
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        <p><b>Improve Gmail Interoperability.</b> <span class="T2">The task is to
        make Thunderbird work better</span> <span class="T2">with
        Gmail.</span></p>
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        <p>Code was written of sufficiently quality to integrate directly
        into Thunderbird.</p>
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        <p>Shipped in Thunderbird 17. Code is in comm-central.</p>
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        <p>Robert Koch</p>
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        <p>'''WebSocket Testing Tool.''' <span class=
        "T2">E</span>xtend a security scanner for web applications, the OWASP
        Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) to support WebSockets, such that you're able
        to view and modify traffic. WebSockets are an upcoming standard
        enabling real-time communication on the Internet.</p>
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        <p>In the upcoming version of ZAP, WebSocket channels are recognized
        and displayed in the GUI. You can see all messages sent back &amp;
        forth, set breakpoints to intercept specific messages and modify
        them, and you can install a filter and replace payloads according to
        some regular expression.</p>
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        <p>Will ship with ZAP version 2, "sometime before
        the end of 2012". [http://code.google.com/p/zaproxy/ Code].</p>
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        <p>Girish Sharma</p>
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        <p>'''Graphical Timeline of Events.''' <span class=
        "T2">Write a</span> scalable developer tool that will allow
        developers to visually see, inspect and connect various kind of
        events going on in the browser, be it Network Events, DOM Events,
        Memory Events or Console Events. Add Remote Debugging support so that
        any remote browser, be it mobile or desktop could be inspected.</p>
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        <p>Support for network events, memory events and DOM events was
        completed.</p>
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        <p>Code is complete, currently as an add-on, and it is hoped to
        integrate it into Firefox by default. [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/graphical-timeline/ Addon], [https://github.com/scrapmac/Graphical-Timeline-of-Events Code].</p>
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        <p>Han Lin</p>
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        <p>'''Thunderbird: 'No Reply' Reminder.'''
        <span class="T2">I</span>ntegrate a reply manager into Thunderbird
        that monitors the reply status of marked emails. Functions include
        marking an outgoing email as "expecting replies", monitoring who has
        replied and who has not, and giving timely feedback of reply
        status.</p>
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        <p>All the functions required have been implemented. However the user
        interface is not satisfactory yet and is still under review.</p>
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        <p>The back-end code is complete but the UI is still being
        refined. [https://github.com/DIdiHL/comm-central/tree/reply-manager Code].</p>
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        <p>Jiten Thakkar</p>
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        <p>'''Networking Dashboard.''' <span class=
        "T2">Create a dashboard to show</span> internal statistical data from
        Firefox's networking stack and also perform some diagnostic tests
        (like pinging a server or doing an SSL handshake). Create an
        interface to supply the data, and an addon to display it.</p>
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        <p>The interface was created and also an add-on which shows the
        statistical data in tabular form. The diagnostic part was not
        completed because the implementation of other functionality took a
        lot more time then anticipated. </p>
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        <p>The patch is up for review. Other people have been working on it
        too; the code has been modified a lot since the end of GSoC.
        [http://netij.blogspot.sg/2012/08/networking-dashboard-v01.html Screenshots],
        [https://bitbucket.org/Jiten/mozilla-central Code],
        [https://github.com/jiten-thakkar/Networking-Dashboard Code].</p>
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        <p>Xingxing Pan</p>
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        <p>'''Port SuperTux to the Web.''' Emscripten is a
        new C/C++-to-Javascript compiler, which aims to port native desktop
        applications, for example games, into the web. The task is to port
        Supertux, a SuperMario-like game, to the web using Emscripten.</p>
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        <p>Supertux is ported to web, and can run in Firefox 16. Some work
        remains to be done, for example the level editor is not ported
        yet.</p>
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        <p>The game is included as an example on the main page of
        Emscripten. [https://github.com/forandom/WebSupertux Code].</p>
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        <p>Vilson Vieira da Silva Junior</p>
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        <p>'''Meemoo Improvements.''' <span class="T2">The
        task is to</span> improve the hackable web apps framework: Meemoo.
        One aim was to create a way to easily build new Meemoo modules using
        a live code and collaborative editor.</p>
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        <p>The live code editor was created, as well as other improvements
        inside Meemoo like new modules for drawing, generating 3D shapes,
        hacking with threejs, transmitting data between two or more Meemoo
        users using Meteor, and initial modules for audio synthesis using the
        Web Audio API and Audio Data API.</p>
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        <p>The first version of the editor is finished. It is online at
        [http://li7e.org/ http://li7e.org]. The other modules
        with examples of their use are listed in the [http://meemoo.org/hack-our-apps/ Meemoo Gallery]. [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2012/Meemoo#Summary_of_contributions Code].</p>
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        <p>Jeremy Banks</p>
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        <p>'''Slide Drive Improvements.''' <span class=
        "T2">The task is</span> to prototype a pure browser-based slideshow
        package that would let people mix graphics and text the way they do
        in desktop slideshow tools, and integrate with HTML5 media APIs to do
        narration.</p>
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        <p>Enough was built to show that the idea is a good one, but the
        infrastructure needed isn't there yet. In particular, SVG
        isn't nearly as robust, or as well integrated into modern browsers,
        as was hoped.</p>
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        <p>The prototype is up on GitHub. [https://github.com/jeremybanks/slide-drive Code].</p>
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        <p>Nguyen Ngoc Trung</p>
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        <p><b>Thunderbird: App Tabs.</b> <span class="T2">The task is to implement
        support for App Tabs in</span> <span class=
        "T2">Thunderbird.</span></p>
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        <p>Several work-in-progress patches were posted.</p>
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        <p>There are patches on the bug but no work has been done for several
        months. [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=761727 Bug].</p>
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        <p>Marco Castelluccio</p>
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        <p>'''Native Webapps Support on Linux.'''
        <span class="T2">The Native Webapps feature in Firefox</span>
        <span class="T2">permits a webapp to be installed in the OS and
        launched as a separate process in a</span> <span class=
        "T2">standalone window and environment. Currently this support exists
        for Windows</span> <span class="T2">and OSX, and the goal of this
        project is to bring the same support for Linux</span> <span class=
        "T2">desktop, specifically for Gnome.</span></p>
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        <p>Much work was done on our native webapps support, although the
        newness of that code meant that much of the time was spent fixing
        cross-platform problems.</p>
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        <p>Native web apps are now supported on Linux, although native web
        apps on desktop in general are now on the back burner for a
        while. Code is in mozilla-central.</p>
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        <p>Matthew Ramir</p>
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        <p><b>OpenBadges Back End Improvements.</b> <span class="T2">The task turned
        out to be to add</span> <span class="T2">accessibility features to
        the OpenBadges website.</span></p>
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        <p>Parts of the openbadges.org website were made accessible.</p>
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        <p>Fixes are in the current openbadges.org.codebase. [https://github.com/crasx/openbadges.org Code], [https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges project codebase].</p>
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