Community:SummerOfCode11

This page lists all the Google Summer of Code 2011 projects with confirmed mentors, and which have been approved by the SoC administrator. New suggestions can be made on the Brainstorming page.

Potential students: you may choose from the list below, but you do not have to. Feel free to submit a proposal for your own idea. However, before you do so, see the guidelines for good ideas. You can also discuss your ideas or application in the #developers channel on IRC: irc://irc.mozilla.org/#developers .

In addition to the specifically-named projects below, we have also tagged a number of bugs in Bugzilla with the keyword student-project. However, as the idea of a "student project" is wider than just the Summer of Code, students looking through the list will need to decide whether any particular bug listed there is actually the right size and scope for Summer of Code.

Application Advice

• Read the GSoC Student Guide and follow its advice.
• Read How Not To Apply For Summer Of Code and avoid doing the things listed there.
• Read our examples of good applications: 1, 2, 3.
• You can't apply yet because applications haven't opened. Once you can, there will be a link here.

Questions of any sort? Send mail to Gerv and/or chofmann. We will try and respond as soon as possible and get your questions directed to the right person. Please allow at least 48 hours for a reply.

Mozilla Platform

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Improve Cairo performance to match Skia	There are a number of areas where the performance of the Skia 2D graphics library is better than that of Cairo, which Mozilla uses. Find them, and improve Cairo to match or exceed Skia's performance. Language: C.	jrmuizel	jrmuizel
Improve border corner rendering	Our rendering of CSS border corners is very sloppy, particularly when the corner is rounded or when two styles intersect. You could code dotted and dashed rounded corners and/or improve their interaction with other styles, or work on making other joins prettier. Language: C++.	fantasai	fantasai
Create a JPEG XR decoding library	The JPEG XR compression standard gives us better compression than JPEG and other useful features like HDR and alpha channels. The library should be as similar to libjpeg as possible. It would be a "from scratch", freely licensed version and will need a student that is very comfortable with image compression and as has ideally written decompressors from scratch before. Language: C.	jrmuizel	jrmuizel
Implement HTML Speech proposal	The HTML Speech incubator group will have a proposal for integrating speech recognition and text-to-speech functionality to web pages. Google has proposed already one API, but it is expected that the proposal from the group won't look exactly like that. For implementation Rainbow might be useful. Language: C++.	smaug	smaug	davidb: Hey Olli, regarding tts, have you seen Google's experimental impl? No, I hadn't seen that, but there is more reasonable proposal

Firefox

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Unified Communications add-on	Develop the base for an add-on that creates a unified messaging UI inside browser tabs, following the RMD concept. This should work with feed display and twitter integration in the beginning, but be extensible to be able to support other communications later. Languages: Javascript, XUL, perhaps C++.	KaiRo	KaiRo	Not sure if this belongs in Firefox but there's no add-ons category.

SeaMonkey

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Messenger Bookmarks	SM Mailnews provides access not only to mail, but also to NNTP news and even to RSS feeds, and maybe others in future as well. It would be quite useful to be able to bookmark specific news items for later use, e.g. specific postings of a discussion, etc. This should include full usual bookmark handling for those URLs, including sidebar support. Relevant bugs: Bug 14988 - Allow bookmarking of e-mail/Usenet messages Bug 77186 - allow drag and drop bookmarking of mail / news messages Bug 77195 - support news, imap, mailbox message urls from the browser Bug 178003 - Restore access to Sidebar from Mail/News, Compose and Addressbook	Karsten "Mnyromyr" Düsterloh	Karsten "Mnyromyr" Düsterloh
OpenSearch results in Sidebar	When we implemented OpenSearch, we lost the result listing in the sidebar. But OpenSearch responses can be RSS/Atom and we should use this to bring back short results to the sidebar. This feature is likely to need Core/Toolkit fixes. Related: OpenSearch spec	Karsten "Mnyromyr" Düsterloh

NSS (Network Security Services)

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
OCSP improvements	Implement server-side OCSP stapling. (A patch for client-side OCSP stapling already exists.) Implement client-side disk caching of OCSP responses. Language: C.	Wan-Teh Chang	Wan-Teh Chang	You must be an experienced C programmer and can work full time on the project.
New crypto algorithms for NSS	Add DSA with key sizes > 1024 bits (bug 475578); modes of operation for AES: GCM (bug 373108), CTR (bug 373106), CFB (bug 358219); and TLS 1.2 PRF to the NSS softoken. Language: C.	Wan-Teh Chang	Wan-Teh Chang	You must be an experienced C programmer and can work full time on the project.

Firefox Support (Sumo)

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
A real MediaWiki parser for Python	There are no MediaWiki parsers for Python with extensible syntax or multiple output formats. We've felt this pain in SUMO, which uses MW syntax in its knowledge base, resulting in hacks upon hacks to support features like platform-sensitive content, inclusions, and templates. We propose to implement a new MW parser that generates proper parse trees, allows for pluggable syntax, and does not drive callers out of their minds. Language: Python.	ErikRose	ErikRose

Developer Tools

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Tilt - WebGL web page structure visualization	A WebGL-based 3D visualization of a Webpage. The developer will create a WebGL representation of a web-page that allows a user to rotate the page through axes to see the nesting of DOM nodes within the document. Floats and absolute positioned elements will be visible above and below the page based on their z-index. Tilt will be used as an additional visualization tool as part of a next-generation web page inspector. Languages: Javascript, WebGL.	Rob Campbell	Rob Campbell	Candidate must be proficient in JavaScript, DOM programming and have a good grasp of 3D graphics preferably some WebGL or OpenGL experience.