The Google Summer of Code students got chosen 2 weeks ago, and I am pleased to list the 21 projects being done under the Mozilla banner – a new high for the Mozilla project. The name of each student is linked to the location where they will be posting weekly updates on their progress, if you want to follow along with a project you are interested in. I’m sure they would appreciate any help or advice you have :-) Please make them feel welcome!
| Project | Student | Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Improving Text Selection and Rotation in PDF.js | Srishti Srivastava | Bill Walker |
| Designing Hacktivities (Meemoo) | Matthias Brown | Forrest Oliphant |
| Dynamically Configurable Actions add-on (ZAP) | Alessandro Secco | Simon Bennetts |
| Autosuggest Search Engines (Firefox) | Sankha Narayan Guria | Matthew Noorenberghe |
| Clearer Add-on Installation (Firefox) | Sachin Hosmani | Jorge Villalobos |
| Enhanced Customization APIs (Firefox) | Riadh Chtara | Kris Maglione |
| Additional JavaScript Protocol Plug-ins – Yahoo! (Instantbird) | Quentin Headen | Patrick Cloke |
| Awesometab (Instantbird) | Nihanth Subramanya | Benedikt Pfeifer |
| Profile in the Cloud (PiCl) Client (Firefox OS) | Akshay Katyal | Jed Parsons |
| Prototype HTTP/2 Server | Gábor Molnár | Nick Hurley |
| Debug Symbol Generation (Rust) | Michael Woerister | Josh Matthews |
| Implement Branch Prediction (IonMonkey) | Wei Wu | Nicolas B. Pierron |
| Make Firefox Developer Tools Compatible With Thunderbird | Philipp Kewisch | Mike Conley |
| Security Report (Firefox) | Kailas Ravsaheb Patil | Mark Goodwin |
| CSS Generation Tools (MDN) | Gabriel Ivanica | Jean-Yves Perrier |
| Unit Tests for Mozbase | Anhad Jai Singh | Clint Talbert |
| Backend Connectors for Ensemble (Thunderbird) | Jonathan Demelo | Mike Conley |
| Localization Dashboard | Berker Peksag | John Karahalis |
| FileLinks in Instant Messages Instantbird) | Atul Jangra | Florian Quèze |
| Sample Apps for Firefox Marketplace Developer Hub (Firefox OS) | Andre Alves Garzia | Marcos Caceres |
| about:memory for Real People (Firefox) | Abhishek Choudhary | Felipe Gomes |
I mentored Sachin when he worked on some of our DevTools code and he will do a great job. Congrats Sachin!
Alternatively, there’s the Mozilla page on the GSoC2013 site, for a list that includes links to the proposals.
Thanks Mike :)
Although that doesn’t have full names or links to update locations.
Gerv, the about:memory project update location link is wrong. It points at the L10n dashboard project.
Fixed – thank you!