Outreachy/2016/December to March: Difference between revisions

Mentor: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/pmcmanus/ Patrick McManus]

Battery performance for networking is strongly influenced by the number of times the radio is brought into a higher powered state for transmission. Data that is batched together minimizes the number of power-up events and extends battery life. Normally HTTP requests are dispatched as soon as possible, but by strategically delaying ones that do not have an impact on user interaction this batching can be achieved.

Mentor: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/kthiessen/ Karl Thiessen]

Our intern would be responsible for helping the team create Dockerfiles and images for as many of the deployment/functional tests as possible, across all of the many repositories Cloud Services QA works with.  Along the way, the intern would help clean up and update documentation, and complete an inventory of all of our repositories and their status (deprecated, active, or healthy) based on how often the tests get run.

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The [https://kinto.readthedocs.org Kinto project] aims to bring storage instances to everyone, attached to their [https://accounts.firefox.com Firefox Accounts]. It actually supports multiple authentication schemes, but FxA is integrated with it, and that is part of the solution we want to deliver.

Mentor: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/ricardo/ Ricardo Vasquez]

"At Mozilla Foundation, we spend a lot of our energy promoting web literacy. We’ve been hard at work the past year building innovative tools, supporting communities, teaching, learning, and shaping the environments in which the open web is made possible. We want everyone in the world to create, not just consume, the Web around them.

Mentor: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jsavage/ Joni Savage]

Mozilla’s Support site (SUMO) provides around-the-clock help for 30 million users a month through thousands of knowledge base articles. We rely on the community to keep the knowledge base up to date with each release. While there’s growing interest in contributing to the knowledge base, there’s also a learning curve. We have training documents, but they’re lengthy and a hassle to work with. Here’s where you come in.

=== Contribute to the HTML Standard! ===

The intern would help out fixing bugs in the HTML Standard, which involves editing HTML, reading the HTML Standard, testing browsers, and using GitHub.

===Visual Design with Research Data===

Mentor: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/ilana/ Ilana Segall]

We have a huge opportunity for a lot of unexplored data from various projects to be represented visually, both for research purposes and to be displayed in other parts of the organization. We have data on search, participation in heartbeat surveys, and months and months of telemetry that are rife for exploration. Our ideal candidate would have some coding experience and the desire/ability to learn javascript and the d3 visualization library. Someone with an element of design interest would also be preferred so that we can work on the most effective data vizzes possible. The intern would also have the ability to work on executive-facing work including infographics and slide decks.