Mozilla community members - submit proposals here for 2015 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 20th.
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)
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Firefox
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Firefox Performance Dashboard
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This project would implement the dashboard described in bug 1132498. Collecting the memory and CPU usage of addons and webpages and displaying it in a fashion that shows bad actors would be valuable for power users.
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Firefox for Android
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Thunderbird
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Performance testing
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Add and deploy a performance testsuite for Thunderbird to catch regressions in areas such as startup, message search, folder display, message display, etc.
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JavaScript, Python, preferably some performance analysis experience
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jcranmer
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Needs a mentor -- florian
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Secure email UI
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Develop good interfaces for key management and illustrating the security levels of messages succinctly, preferably applicable to both S/MIME and OpenPGP.
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Strong UX experience; JS, XUL or HTML; crypto background advantageous
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jcranmer
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Summer of Code is about coding, not about UX work; asking students to do UX work often leads to disappointing results -- florian. This may be too large a task; narrowing focus could be useful.
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Alternate protocol for mailnews folders
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Thunderbird has long-term plans to implement a variety of mail and mail-like protocols to be managed as mailnews folders. An existing addon (SkinkGlue) exists to provide the glue for this. Implement one other protocol, which might be Twitter, Fastmail's JMAP, or Calendar events & tasks
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Javascript
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rkent and, depending on protocol, a chat guy (clokep?), brong from Fastmail, or Fallen
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I doubt having 2 twitter implementations in Thunderbird is a valuable investment of time. JMAP seems the most promising protocol idea here; do we know if brong is on board to (co-)mentor this? Even though the code would be primarily written in JS, I suspect having some C++ skills to be able to understand some of mailnews' internals would be very helpful.
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Instantbird
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Calendar
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SeaMonkey
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Bugzilla
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Bugzilla Extension Exchange Format
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Write an installer script for Bugzilla extensions
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dylan (dylan@mozilla.com)
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Spec: http://hardison.net/~dylan/BEEF.html
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Firefox Support (SUMO)
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QA
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Mozilla IT and Infrastructure
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Developer Tools
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Foundation
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OpenArt
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NoFlo-UI something
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Something TBD related to flow-based programming w/ browser-based IDE
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javascript, coffeescript, ux
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Forresto
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Forresto
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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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Server-Sent Events
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Servo lacks an implementation of the EventSource Web API. The goal of this project is to implement that API, following the specification as closely as possible and enabling the tests for this feature that already exist.
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Prior experience with Rust valuable. Comfortable reading and writing JavaScript for the web.
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jdm
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Security Engineering
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Localization
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Mozilla Science Lab
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