Community:SummerOfCode11:Brainstorming

This page is for anyone to submit ideas for Google Summer of Code projects with Mozilla for 2011. As it is open to all, it will inevitably contain suggestions of wildly variable quality.

Students: ideas approved by the SoC admins are here. You can also submit ideas from this page, but they are rather less likely to be accepted. (There's probably a reason they haven't been moved to that page.) You can also submit your own ideas - you don't have to put an idea on this page and get it made official in order to propose it.

How To Make Good Suggestions

Before adding an idea to this list, please consider the following:

• Be specific. It's hard to understand the impact of, or the size of, vague proposals.
• Consider size. The student has eight weeks to design, code, test and document the proposal. It needs to fill, but not overfill, that time.
• Do your research. Support the idea with well-researched links.
• Don't morph other people's ideas. If you have a related idea, place it next to the existing one, or add a comment.
• Insert only your own name into the Mentor column, and then only if you are willing to take on the responsibility. If you think the SoC admins won't know you, leave contact details.
• Check back regularly. The administrators may have questions about your idea that you will need to answer.
• Know when to give up. If you've added the same idea for the last three years and it hasn't made it to the official page, perhaps you can predict what will happen this time.

Suggestion List

Links to ideas lists from previous years.

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 Skia outperforms Cairo. Find them, and improve Cairo to match or exceed Skia's performance.	jrmuizel	jrmuizel
Improve border corner joins	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.	fantasai	fantasai
Create a JPEG XR decoding library	JPEG XR gives us better compression 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.	jrmuizel	jrmuizel
Implement HTML Speech proposal	HTML Speech XG 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 XG won't look exactly like that. For implementation Rainbow can be useful.	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 extensible to be able to support other communications later.	KaiRo	KaiRo	Not sure if this belongs in Firefox but there's no add-ons category.

Thunderbird

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments

Calendar

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments

Camino

See the Camino Summer of Code page for project suggestions.

SeaMonkey

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments

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 exists.) Implement client-side disk cache of OCSP responses.	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 softoken	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.	Wan-Teh Chang	Wan-Teh Chang	You must be an experienced C programmer and can work full time on the project.

Bugzilla

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments

Mobile/Fennec

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments

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.	ErikRose	ErikRose

Rhino

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments

Mozilla IT Infrastructure

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments

Mozilla Services (Sync, Identity, etc)

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments

Developer Tools

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Tilt	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.	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.

Drumbeat/Batucada

Any hacking projects connected to a Drumbeat project or Batucada.

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments