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 Developer Tools
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| Python library and Sublime Text plugin for Firefox Developer Tools
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Develop a Python library that can use the Firefox Remote Debugging Protocol to interface with Firefox from an external text editor, and create a plugin for Sublime Text to showcase the capabilities of the library. An old prototype is already available and can serve as a starting point for further development.
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Firefox for Android
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Firefox OS / Boot2Gecko
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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| Integrated pdf.js support in thunderbird (bug 810815)
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Firefox ships with integrade PDF viewing capabilities using pdf.js. This functionality is not present in Thunderbird yet but would obviously be useful.
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JavaScript
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mkmelin
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Unclear about how much work it is.
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Instantbird
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| Infinite scroll
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Add additional messages from the logs on-demand as the user scrolls up/down. Old messages should be removed when no longer needed, while not breaking any existing features.
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JavaScript, XUL, CSS
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nhnt11
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nhnt11 + ???
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Calendar
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| Keyboard Accessibility for Calendar
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bug 242112 Make Calendar keyboard-accessible. Keyboard actions to be added for navigation through various calendar elements and allow for alternative keyboard actions for point-and-click options.
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babhishek21
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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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| Treeherder for mobile
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Threeherder is a tool that allows to monitor test and build results generated by the gecko CI system.
The goal of this project is to build a simplified version of Treeherder, targeted to a mobile audience.
The data is already available through a restful API.
The mobile UI should allow to see if a push has failures and eventually drill down to identify which job failed on which platform.
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Good knowledge of JavaScript and CSS. Previous experience with angularjs would be beneficial, but it's not needed.
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mdoglio
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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
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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
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Webmaker
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| AWS cli tool for deploys/rapid prototyping
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Help build/explore options for a heroku-like cli tool for rapid prototyping and development in the Webmaker ecosystem that interfaces with our AWS infrastructure.
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clokep: There are tools that let you interact with AWS on the command line. I'm unsure if they do exactly what you want and doubt they're written in node (the official one is written on top of their Python library).
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| Developer experience for Cordova Android/Firefox OS
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Help fix bugs, improve documentation, learning resources, and developer experience for build tools, tests, and deployment of Cordova Firefox OS / Android projects
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k88hudson
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clokep: I'm unsure what this is, it sounds like "Work on Cordova Android/Firefox OS and fix some documentation for 3 months". We like GSoC projects to have a specific goal in mind. Maybe this just needs a bit of rewording though.
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| Webmaker.app for iOS
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Develop an iOS version of our Cordova application (currently implemented for Android/Firefox OS)
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k88hudson
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clokep: I have no idea how Webmaker.app works, but does this not need any iOS specific development skills (e.g. ObjectiveC)?
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| Prototype in-app payments for Webmaker.app
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Users can create mobile web apps with Webmaker.app, but what if they could accept payments? Explore options like paypal, stripe, etc. and develop a prototype using Cordova/web tech.
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k88hudson
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clokep: I'm having a bit of trouble understanding the final end goal of this: is it simply to have a prototype that includes, e.g., PayPal? What will that help us do?
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