Community:SummerOfCode06

Add your ideas here for Projects for the Google Summer of Code 2006

We will be reviewing ideas posted here the week of 4/17 and putting together proposals the following week. Please note if you are interested in being a Mentor for one of these projects, or suggest someoneone who could serve as mentor. Mentor requirements are here - http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html

Thanks

Chris Hofmann

- Complete Torrent-Integration: [1] (started in last year's SoC)

- Complete Skype-Integration for Thunderbird (started in last year's SoC)

- Work on Venkman to bring it some good updates/bugfixes/new features. Maybe work to do a 1.0 release? (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141097)

- XUL editor plugin for Eclipse that leverages the XULRunner component and JS debugger from the Eclipse Ajax Toolkit Framework to create a XUL UI development tool. (Beltzner 09:31, 17 April 2006 (PDT))

- "Advance the XUL platform" projects (to be defined) e.g. implement <menugroup>, fix menu bugs, etc. Ben 10:38, 17 April 2006 (PDT)

- Multi-threaded (accelerated) Download Manager ([2]) with possible Metalink (Mirrors/P2P/checksums) support.

- Support Mac a11y in the content area (bridge Apple's Carbon accessibility APIs to the Mozilla accessibility APIs): bug 157209. (Samuel Sidler 14:44, 18 April 2006 (PDT))