Community:SummerOfCode12:Brainstorming

Mozilla community members - submit proposals here for 2012 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.)

Are you a students looking to apply to SoC with Mozilla? Your first stop should be the official list of ideas. Ideas on this page are not on that page 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 for your part of Mozilla, add one!

Mozilla Platform (Gecko)

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

Firefox

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

Firefox Mobile

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Implementing 'Enhanced Search in the Firefox Awesomebar"	Ian Barlow's mockups of the 'Enhanced Search in the Firefox Awesomebar can be found at the link below" http://ianbarlow.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/enhanced-search-in-the-firefox-awesomebar/	Vikram Kamath	Vikram Kamath	I spoke to Ian Barlow (ibarlow@mozilla.com) and he's willing to mentor this project. An additional mentor from the mobile team may be needed.

Boot2Gecko

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Calendar

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Thunderbird

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Automatic folder suggestion for Move/Copy	In the current version of Thunderbird, to move an email to a folder, I usually right click on the email's subject and use "Move To" option and then select the folder I want to move my email in. In my gmail account, I have about 50 folders and moving an email to a folder is a very hard task for me. Although, there exists "Move To ... Again" feature which is very helpful in certain cases, I really feel the need to have a "smarter" "Move to" selection. The raw idea is this: Thunderbird automatically assigns, for each email, to each folder a probibility. This probability assigned to folder "A" for a email "B", is the probability that the user decides to move email "A" to folder "B". Then, the "Move To" option lists the folders based on these probabilities.	Amir Aavani

SeaMonkey

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Implementing Private Browsing	SeaMonkey bug 460895 Private browsing mode feature. Firefox bug 248970 (PrivateBrowsing) Private Browsing mode (global toggle for saving/caching everything) Firefox bug 462832 (mozpb) Enable private browsing support for all of the Mozilla-based applications.	SeaMonkey-Council		Private Browsing is currently being rewritten and moved into Core (docshell) so perhaps we should wait for next year's GSoC.
Update the Composer (Web Page Editor) component.	We need to modernize the Composer code to take into account HTML5, CSS3 and modern web development techniques. bug 477840 Backport KompoZer to Composer. bug 477845 Build a standalone Composer.	SeaMonkey-Council	Kaze	We plan to use the KompoZer code base as the basis of the new Composer component.
Mail Bookmarks.	We alredy have a primitive version of tagging. We should have the ability to "bookmark" individual mail messages, search and organize them just like browser bookmarks.	SeaMonkey-Council	Mnyromyr	Could probably include an enhanced tagging feature.
Modernize Migration code and add new migrators.	Importers for Opera, Safari, MSIE, Thunderbird (probably just reverse the SM-to-TB importer), Firefox, Chrome [lang=C++].	SeaMonkey-Council
Update or rewrite our two themes (Default/Classic and Modern).	Probably suitable for a graphics design or fine arts major. [lang=css,png,svg]	SeaMonkey-Council
Graphics redesign of all SeaMonkey project webpages including a new mascot and some tee-shirt designs.	Probably requires a Web Developer student [lang=css,html,php/python,png,svg].	SeaMonkey-Council
Design and implement a publicity campaign to raise the awareness of SeaMonkey.	Probably suitable for a Marketing major [lang=English]	SeaMonkey-Council		Might coordinate with the previous Graphics design GSoC.
Tabs on Top in Browser and MailNews.	Implement optional Tabs on Top including App Tabs (e.g. Composer, Address Book).[lang=xul,xbl,js]	SeaMonkey-Council		Included "Make mail tabs real". Currently, mailtabs are just "fake", they act more like buttons to switch between messages/views. This means especially that when deleting a message already shown in background tab and then switching thither, it's gone — which is extremely counter-intuitive. We might want to see how Spicebird does things here.
Reimplement the Advanced Search Sidebar using OpenSearch.	The Open Search engine syntax allows requesting data in atom/rss/xml formats. This would allow us to scrape search results in a format suitable for processing by the sidebar.	SeaMonkey-Council

Camino

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

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

Firefox Support (SUMO)

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

QA

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

Documentation

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

Mozilla IT and Infrastructure

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

Open Web Apps

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Sample Open Web App demonstrating AppCache	Create a sample Open Web App that will show HTML5 developers how AppCache makes an App that launches quickly and repeatably, even in the face of bad or missing network connections (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Offline_resources_in_Firefox). Examples could include eBook readers or WebGL-based games. Code should be exceptionally readable and well-documented.	Bill Walker (bwalker@mozilla.com)	Bill Walker (bwalker@mozilla.com)
PDF eBook reader for Open Web Apps	Create an eBook reader for the Mozilla Marketplace based around PDF.js. This App should allow users to (1) manage a library of PDF's found on the net and (2) provide a pleasant full-screen reading experience. Extra credit for implementing bookmarks and sharing or other social features. Ideally, this App would work well on tablets, phones and desktops.	Bill Walker (bwalker@mozilla.com)	Bill Walker (bwalker@mozilla.com)

Identity

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

Sync

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

Developer Tools

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

Add-on SDK

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

Foundation

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

Release Engineering

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

Instantbird

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

Emscripten

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

Security Engineering

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

Localization

Title	Details - with links as appropriate	Reporter	Mentor(s)	Comments
Standardization of translation for words during Localization.	During Localization, especially Indic languages, a need is felt for standardization of translation of words during localization. As of now due to the lack of an exhaustive list of standardized usage leading to problems for l10n contributors. https://fedorahosted.org/fuel/ is one such effort but is no where near exhaustive. This project will write scripts which will go through the entire l10n database find words and create a standardized listing for translation.	Gautam Akiwate <gautam.akiwate@gmail.com>	Gautam Akiwate