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<b>Are you a student looking to apply to GSoC with Mozilla?</b> You're in the right place. This page lists all the confirmed [[SummerOfCode|Google Summer of Code]] projects. New suggestions can be made on [[Community:SummerOfCode18:Brainstorming|the Brainstorming page]]. Do not edit this page yourself; contact Mike Hoye or Florian for edits.

| ReSpec offers students the opportunity to work on a large code base that has extensive real world use and impact. The project offers students an extensive range of problems to tackle, from UI design, to concurrent processing (using Web Workers to do distributed text processing), dealing with accessibility and internationalization, writing and learning about unit and integration tests, security, code review, etc. - as well as exposure to the W3C and the web standards community, this project also aims at teaching students about how web standards are put together. To determine if this is a project you would like to be part of, see the [https://github.com/w3c/respec/issues/ list of issues] you could work on. It's a great opportunity to learn about all aspects of open source software development, but with the freedom to take on small to large challenges over the Summer (depending on your skill level and level of confidence). About the mentor: Marcos Caceres is a Staff Engineer at Mozilla who has been working on Web Standards for over a decade. Marcos is the lead maintainer of ReSpec. Marcos has extensive experience mentoring developers and has previously successfully mentor a GSO student.  

| [https://github.com/mozilla/metricsgraphics metricsgraphics] is JavaScript library designed to help with the presentation of interactive visualization. It is used extensively both inside and outside Mozilla. This project would be about adding a set of zooming and brushing features to facilitate the exploration of large and/or noisy datasets, such as in the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/EngineeringProductivity/Projects/Perfherder Perfherder] or [https://github.com/mozilla/missioncontrol/ Mission Control] projects. Detailed project description to come.

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| In Firefox for Android we are using an A/B testing framework based on "Switchboard". We want to extract this framework into a standalone library that can be used in our other Android apps.

| The existing code in Firefox for Android lives [https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/base/java/org/mozilla/gecko/switchboard here]. Originally we started using the existing "Switchboard" library. But over time the behavior of this code changed as our requirements changed. Therefore we do not only want to extract the code - but also re-write it (in Kotlin).