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 student 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 |
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| Support OpenGL graphics acceleration on Linux | bug 594876 | C/C++ | marco |
Firefox
| Title | Details | Skills Needed | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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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: https://github.com/Noitidart/jscFileWatcher. | C/C++/Javascript | Using "https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Noitidart/ " as property chain is not permitted during the annotation process. | Noit | |
| Modernize Library (Bookmarks, History, Downloads) UI and move its window to a tab | bug 697359 | Javascript | marco |
Firefox Developer Tools
| Title | Details | Skills Needed | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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Firefox for Android
| Title | Details | Skills Needed | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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Firefox OS / Boot2Gecko
| Title | Details | Skills Needed | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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| 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
| Title | Details | Skills Needed | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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| Update to mozmill 2.0 | We are currently using an older version of Mozmill, a framework for automated UI tests similar to Selenium. In order to stay future proof we need to update to the latest version, which requires some API changes. You will get hands on experience in creating automated tests and your debugging skills will certainly imprve. See bug 930732 for additional details. | JS and python coding, debug mozmill tests | aceman | ||
| Finish remaining maildir features | bug 845952 | C++ coding, JS coding, some tests | aceman | ||
| Add UI for creating boolean filter expressions in filter editor | bug 297852 | JS+XUL coding, some tests, maybe a bit of C++ coding | aceman | Supposedly this mostly needs creating the UI. The backend should be ready for such expressions. But it needs checking if it still works as it wasn't exercised so far. | |
| Integrate pdf.js support | bug 810815 | JavaScript | marco | ||
| Tabbed Composition | bug 449299 | JavaScript | marco |
Instantbird
| Title | Details | Skills Needed | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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| Redesign libpurple integration | Change libpurple from being an XPCOM component to a separate (sub-)process that uses IPC to communicate to it | C++, XPCOM, JavaScript | Patrick Cloke | ||
| OTR (Off-the-Record) Integration | Tor Messenger, which is based on Instantbird, has support for end-to-end encrypted instant messaging using OTR (via an extension). The goal of this project would be to upstream these changes from Tor Messenger into Instantbird while incorporating UI changes designed by the Instantbird team. | c-types, XPCOM, JavaScript, XUL | arlolra | Patrick Cloke [:clokep] |
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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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
| Title | Details | Skills Needed | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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| Port LibreOffice to the Web | https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Emscripten | C/C++/JavaScript | marco |
Rust
| Title | Details | Skills Needed | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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Servo
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Security Engineering
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Localization
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Build system
| Title | Details | Skills Needed | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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Security Assurance
| Title | Details | Skills Needed | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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| ZAP Bug tracker support | https://github.com/zaproxy/zaproxy/issues/440 | Java | Simon Bennetts | Simon Bennetts | |
| ZAP Auto login detection and configuration | https://github.com/zaproxy/zaproxy/issues/2251 | Java | Simon Bennetts | Simon Bennetts | |
| Zest text representation and parser | https://github.com/mozilla/zest/issues/23 | Java | Simon Bennetts | Simon Bennetts |
WADI
| Title | Details | Skills Needed | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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| Add Service Workers to forum | https://github.com/mozilla/wadi/issues/54 | HTML5, JavaScript | Salvador de la Puente | ||
| Make Hatnote progressive | https://github.com/mozilla/wadi/issues/51 | HTML5, JavaScript | Salvador de la Puente | ||
| Best of Planet stream | https://github.com/mozilla/wadi/issues/44 | HTML5, JavaScript, some server side technology | Salvador de la Puente | ||
| Create a (broccoli/ember)-oghliner addon | https://github.com/mozilla/wadi/issues/43 | HTML5, JavaScript | Salvador de la Puente | Salva | |
| Add SW functionalities to Phaser (or other HTML5 game engine) | https://github.com/mozilla/wadi/issues/32 | HTML5, JavaScript | Salvador de la Puente | Salva | |
| Use a service worker with Firefox Accounts | https://github.com/mozilla/wadi/issues/30 | HTML5, JavaScript | Salvador de la Puente | ||
| Implement Service Workers on the MDN | https://github.com/mozilla/wadi/issues/21 | HTML5, JavaScript | Salvador de la Puente | David Walsh | |
| App for watching air.mozilla video podcasts | https://github.com/mozilla/wadi/issues/11 | HTML5, JavaScript | Salvador de la Puente | ||
| Add offlining to Shower | https://github.com/mozilla/wadi/issues/3 | HTML5, JavaScript | Salvador de la Puente |
Webmaker
| Title | Details | Skills Needed | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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Mozilla Science Lab
| Title | Details | Skills Needed | Reporter | Mentor(s) | Comments |
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| Contributorship Badges for Science. | Issuing badges to credit authors for their work on academic papers. 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. Since launching our MVP last fall, we've realized that badgekit-api isn't optimized for our use case. In this project, you will migrate our badge system away from badgekit-api and update the system to make it easier for publishers to integrate Paper Badger in their submission system. More details: https://github.com/mozillascience/PaperBadger/issues/159 https://github.com/mozillascience/PaperBadger/issues/160 |
Strong JavaScript programming skills. Familiar with node. | Abigail Cabunoc Mayes | Abigail Cabunoc Mayes :abbycabs | The Mozilla Science Lab, an initiative of the Mozilla Foundation, works to make research collaborative, accessible and usable. |
MozVR
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