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
SVG/MathML clipboard features	Goal: implement clipboard features for SVG images and MathML formulas. Currently, Mozilla lacks support for copying text in SVG images. This feature is implemented for MathML but it would be more useful to preserve the whole mathematical structure when copying a formula. The MathML3 recommendation contains a new clipboard specification that should help to implement interoperable features. As possible extensions to this work, one can implement copying SVG images or the related feature of pasting SVG/MathML in the Mozilla editor. Another related lacking feature is text search in SVG.	Frédéric Wang	Frédéric Wang
Qt/KDE port of Firefox	Goal: Finish the Qt Widget code, so that Firefox can run on Linux using Qt (whereas currently it must run using GTK). A lot of work has been done to get Firefox to support Qt, in part due to Fennec's goal of supporting MeeGo (which is Qt-based). Firefox Qt builds exist already, but need more work to be ready for general use. A pure Qt port of Firefox for Linux would be interesting from several standpoints: It might be faster than the current GTK builds, and also it would integrate better with KDE distros, which should make it popular.	Alon Zakai

Firefox

Profile Management with Login Integration	Firefox already stores the users' details and usage in profiles(-although the procedure is lengthy-). I want to give the user a management system where the user can log-in to the browser and the predefined settings would be loaded and the activity would be recorded to the profile .In a lot of universities,organizations and homes(parental control), the system adminstrator and the user are different, and the admin wants to authenticate or give some special rights to the user (-for which external clients or login-systems like cyberoam-). I can break down the whole system into 2 parts - form and settings.  The form could be of multiple usage - from a simple username/pwd type to another having different fields required to authenticate the user.( it can also have a new registration option) After Login, the user can do any pre-defined settings, he can have his own boomarks, own add-ons, own proxy settings, some saved passwords, sync options, security settings with his/her mobile and other settings which he/she chose.Also this can help universities/organizations to record users' activity specific to his profile. Already a lot of people(bug list) are using profiles and these would give them a clean interface to do so.I believe this would be a great feature and can enhance the usability a lot.	ankur
A page loading progress bar with bandwidth usage data counter	I recommend this as an improvement to the existing version of Firefox beta release. Add the page loading bar at the bottom of each page as well as place the user's internet bandwidth usage counter beside it. This data counter will display the usage for each webpage used in one browsing session. The data counter should be merged into a chart depicting the total webpage usage out of the user's internet plan's bandwidth. The features can be embedded into a jetpack. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript languages are needed. Source of programming languages: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Developing_add-ons Source of Firefox-plugin usage out of CPU usage (for my reference on OS resource usage for my proposal): https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Monitoring_plugins	Reporter Sawaiz (student)	Mentor(s)	Comments

Thunderbird

Title	Details	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
Score-based filtering	You can filter on quite some terms, but you can't weigh them. A scoring system will allow a much finer control, eg. it would be just a property score with a range of maybe 1..1000, along with some new conditions [is ] [isn't ] Score [is lower than ][\/] [<value in range>] [is lower than or equal to ] [is greater than ] [is greater than or equal to] and actions [Increment score by] [Decrement score by][\/] [<value in range>] [Set score to ] Each message would start with a score of 500 before filters get applied. This feature will require MailNews Core C++ hacking. Related: Bug 151622 "filters that score messages"	Karsten "Mnyromyr" Düsterloh	Karsten "Mnyromyr" Düsterloh

NSS (Network Security Services)

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

Bugzilla

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Tag Cloud	Feature: means for quickly grasping a larger bugzilla instance as well as for data mining. Could involve tags, keywords, or even probably configurable arbitrary fields.	Michael Shigorin (no student)		There seems to exist HTML-TagCloud module.

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

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

Drumbeat/Batucada

Any hacking projects connected to a Drumbeat project or Batucada.

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