Community:SummerOfCode14:Brainstorming

Mozilla community members - submit proposals here for 2014 Google Summer of Code projects with Mozilla. (If this page looks empty, it's because accepted ideas have already been transferred to the official list.) The absolute last deadline for submitting ideas in time to help us get accepted by Google is February 14th.

Are you a students looking to apply to SoC with Mozilla? Your first stop should be the official list of ideas. This page is full of weird and whacky ideas, some of which are still on here for a reason - it could be that they are not properly defined, the wrong size, or don't have a mentor. That makes them less likely to get accepted. You can, of course, also submit your own ideas - you don't have to put an idea on this page and get it 'made official' in order to send in a proposal for it.

How To Write A Good Project Proposal

Before adding an proposal 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 who you are, 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

Here are the ideas lists from previous years.

Proposals can be in almost any part of the Mozilla project - don't be fooled by the "Code" in "Summer of Code". If there is no category below for your part of Mozilla, add one!

Mozilla Platform (Gecko)

Title	Details	Skills Needed	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments

Firefox

Title	Details	Skills Needed	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Implement a redesign for tab groups	Tab groups are a great feature of Firefox, but it is only half-finished. There's a redesign proposal at http://readyformozilla.com/panorama and a prototype at http://readyformozilla.com/panorama/prototype. The work involves both the finalization of the (currently rough) design and the implementation.	Knowledge of CSS, Javascript and XUL, as well as an eye for good UI design	Philipp	Philipp
Render large PNG images	For data visualization web sites like SegAnnDB need to display large PNG images, but as this test shows, Firefox does not render very large PNG images. A bug has been filed and this bug could perhaps be fixed by a Google Summer of Code student.	unknown	tdhock

Firefox for Android

Title	Details	Skills Needed	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments

Firefox OS / Boot2Gecko

Title	Details	Skills Needed	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Implementation of a default Voice Recorder app	There is no built in voice/sound recorder app in gaia, as stated in Bug 877286. The taking of memos shouldn't be left to external apps. The goal would be to create such an app for the built-in package. An addon for the Music app is also considered.	Familiarity with gaia and a good knowledge of CSS, Javascript and HTML5 is needed. Should have a fairly good idea about hosted app structure and UI layout. Understanding of the Media Recording API is a plus, but can be caught up on the fly.	Vedad Hadžić
Math virtual keyboard	Firefox OS has native support to MathML (probably the best one if some patchs already in Firefox (Desktop) Nightly was apply) and because of that is suitable to use in mathematical classes. Unfortunately, there is a lack of tools to edit MathML and a good start will be have a special virtual keyboard. For example, a math virtual keyboard will improve the user experience with this demo.	Good knowledge of CSS, Javascript, HTML5 (MathML included), LaTeX. Understanding of the default keyboard can be caught up on the fly.	Raniere Silva

Mozilla Open Badges

Title	Details	Skills Needed	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments

Thunderbird

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Calendar

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SeaMonkey

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NSS (Network Security Services)

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Bugzilla

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Firefox Support (SUMO)

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QA

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Automation & Tools

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Documentation

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Mozilla Developer Network

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Mozilla IT and Infrastructure

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Persona / BrowserID

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Sync / Services

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Developer Tools

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Add-on SDK

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Foundation

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Release Engineering

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Instantbird

Title	Details	Skills Needed	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Single window UI:	Goal: Provide an alternative UI that works well in a single window. To design and implement a single-window UI that does not require a separate contact list and makes good use of the available space when the window is full-screen. Avenues to explore are e.g. multiple side-by-side chats (extending what is currently possible with tabs), and automatic resizing of conversations. The student should bring a good (if not complete) vision for this project, demonstrated via mockups in the application.	JavaScript, XPCOM, XUL	Florian Quèze

Emscripten

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Rust

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Servo

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Security Engineering

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Localization

Title	Details	Skills Needed	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Mozilla Verbatim and Pootle	Implement APIs on Verbatim for retrieving the untranslated string information and existing translations if any. Use machine learning and data mining concepts to translate the strings using existing localization intelligence from the large amount of tranlated strings and implement a web application to translate the strings. Localization plays a major role in Mozilla in spreading its vision of an open and literate web. Localizers are major contributors in making the open source products from Mozilla like Firefox and websites available in 30+ languages, this involves a lot of data being generated in the translation followed by a review process of these translated string. The project aims to use existing database of translations for a particular string and use rating factors and other rating methods to figure out the best translation to a particular string. Also this project can use automatic translation since the data generated by the users over many years can be used for mining and then processing for translation of strings. This project could also be used in localization of the documentation present on MDN into different languages for the world to use. A feed can be built onto MDN requesting the to be localized content as paragraphs of data and then localizing them using the automatic localization features. Benefits Localization time can be saved More time can be spent in localized string verification than in localization thus giving higher quality localizations. Short Term Goals To make a machine learning integration with Mozilla’s localization platform. Long Term Goal To export the project into a full fledged stand alone application with links to various localization platforms like Transifex, Pootle etc.., thus enhancing the localization features of many open source software projects. An enhancement to the 2010 Localization machine learning project implemented by Gautam Akiwate.	Understanding of open webservices APIs Python (Django) / JavaScript Familiarity with a library used for quickly generating a web UI to a server-side Python script	Sudheesh Singanamalla (sudheesh)	Soumya Deb (Debloper)	Documentation of Project

Build system

Title	Details	Skills Needed	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Inotify/watchman daemon for mach	Issues to be solved ./mach build is slow unless you specify a list of changed files hg qref is slow ./mach build does not always work when applied to a single file for incremental. Some js/xul files need a build of the folder or parent folder. Using inotify or watchman, keep track of the files being changed in the source dirs. This can be done in two ways: Directly integrate it with mach and provide it with a mode where it reads the last-updated files from a log of the daemon and builds just those. Or, integrate it with qref (some partial solutions for this already exist), possibly as a Mercurial extension and make hg read the files to be changed from the active patch. This only deals with changes being added, if a patch is popped or a change is removed from a patch, there needs to be a mechanism to notice this as well. Further speed improvements can be made using this. Original idea credit: @ckitching	make / python / familiarity with mozilla (firefox, mainly) codebase	Manishearth (Manishearth)	Soumya Deb (Debloper)

Security Assurance

Title	Details	Skills Needed	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Kitherder	Kitherder is a web application that is designed to facilitate participation in the Mentorships program. Note that while this program is currently limited to security projects, the goal of KitHerder is to provide the matchmaking and relationship management features required to open the program to the Mozilla community. The requirements here are driven by the documentation from the mentorship program and it is expected that the system will leverage Mozillians.org accounts to reduce the amount of personal data stored in Kitherder, and issue badges using the Mozilla Foundation badge system based on participation criteria. Goals: To take Kitherder to a level where it can be deployed to allow the matching of mentors and mentees and manage the basic relationship work. GitHub Source: https://github.com/ygjb/kitherder Gist: https://gist.github.com/ygjb/4543418	Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript	Curtis Koenig	Yvan Boily

Mozilla Science Lab

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