Community:SummerOfCode16:Brainstorming

Mozilla community members - submit proposals here for 2016 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 19th.

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

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File Watcher	This is the bug topic - "https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=958280 " contains a listed "?" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.. Using pipes, create a XPCOM component for Mac file watching (Window and GTK are done) or and complete the js-ctypes version. For XPCOM: Windows topic - "https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992894 " contains a listed "?" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid., this is the GTK topic - "https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992895 " contains a listed "?" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid., this is the Mac topic - "https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992896 " contains a listed "?" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.. This is the preliminary js-ctypes file watcher, but it uses timeout instead of pipes to interrupt/cancel a watch - [:: Github jscFileWatcher].	C/C++/Javascript	Using "https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Noitidart/ " as property chain is not permitted during the annotation process.	Noit

Firefox Developer Tools

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Firefox for Android

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Firefox OS / Boot2Gecko

Title	Details	Skills Needed	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Group MMS proper support	See the meta bug 1106663	CSS, JavaScript		Julien Wajsberg	For this feature, the mentoree will need to change mostly Gaia code, but also likely fix some Gecko code. All the code is in JavaScript. The mentoree will need a Firefox OS device (we can likely supply one though).

Thunderbird

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Instantbird

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Calendar

Title	Details	Skills Needed	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Introducing Calendar Accounts	Traditionally our calendar extension is organized into a list of calendars, each calendar being implemented by a “provider”, for example local storage or using the CalDAV protocol. The service to manage these calendars maintains a simple list, the entries have no connection to each other. Some calendar providers would greatly benefit from being able to group calendars into accounts, for example free-busy lookups are usually per-server operations and not per-calendar. It would also open the door for some great new features that have been postponed because they can be implemented cleaner with the notion of accounts.	XUL, CSS, JavaScript	Fallen	Fallen	Click here for a detailed project description
Resource Booking Improvements	The Lightning extension has a dialog for inviting attendees to an event, which also shows availability information. Albeit not very obvious, it also allows booking resources and rooms. To improve this experience we would like users to be able to pick rooms and resources in a way that they don't need to remember the room address and quickly see which rooms and resources exist and are available around the proposed time of the event.	XUL, CSS, JavaScript	Fallen	Fallen	Click here for a detailed project description

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

Title	Details	Skills Needed	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Web-based GDB Frontend	Write a graphical frontend for gdb/rr in react.js communicating with backend (gdb/rr) over a websocket.	Javascript, react.js, CSS/HTML (gdb/c++ is nice to have)	jonasfj	jonasfj	I'll happily add the backend to TaskCluster workers, so we can debug processes in CI tasks from a browser.

Documentation

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Mozilla Developer Network

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Mozilla IT and Infrastructure

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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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OpenArt

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Release Engineering

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Emscripten

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Rust

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Servo

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Security Engineering

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Localization

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Build system

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Security Assurance

Title	Details	Skills Needed	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Mozilla Investigator: Auditd integration	Implement support for syscall monitoring on Linux system via the Audit daemon. This should include integration with the audit-go library, as well as reporting and escalation. A key component of the project is to correlate anomalies across nodes, to identify unusual systems registered by isolated systems but not by the rest of the infrastructure.	Strong Go and C programming skills. Good knowledge of Operating Systems architecture and the Linux kernel.	Julien Vehent	Julien Vehent :ulfr & Guillaume Destuynder :kang	MIG (github.com/mozilla/mig) is a distributed digital forensics framework deployed across thousands of systems at Mozilla. It is used by various groups to maintain good security levels across the environments, and investigate incidents and vulnerabilities.

Webmaker

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Mozilla Science Lab

Title	Details	Skills Needed	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Contributorship Badges for Science.	Exploring the use of digital badges for crediting contributors to scholarly papers for their work. As the research environment becomes more digital, we want to test how we can use this medium to help bring transparency and credit for individuals in the publication process. Using Mozilla's Badgekit-api to implement our badges, we can issue and fetch badges from badgekit via the badgkit-api-client. By authenticating against ORCID, a user can reliably issue badges to a valid ORCID, the standard unique researcher identifier. In this project, you will integrate with the publishers paper submission system to generate the badges.	Strong JavaScript programming skills. Familiar with node.	Abigail Cabunoc Mayes	Abigail Cabunoc Mayes :abbycabs