Hi all,
One of the things we're trying to do in the community space is to try
and hook up with people who could contribute on a sustained basis.
One avenue for doing this is via Oregon State University's (OSU) Open
Source Lab (OSL). Among other things, the OSL has graduate
students who are (right now!) looking for master's degree projects,
which means a 20+hr/wk project that could last as long as 2 years.
I'd like to see whether we can think of any projects that:
1) could contribute to getting Chandler/Cosmo/Scooby out the door
faster (perhaps in an area where we aren't planning to do a lot of
work right away).
2) could be done by someone at OSL in conjunction with some mentoring/
support from the Chandler community / OSAF staff.
As examples, these are some Mozilla projects that were suitable as
projects for OSL students
a) Security
i) Javascript security models - how to keep runtime
content safe
ii) Analyzing the Mozilla code base for security bugs
iii) Comparative security of closed/open-source
(IE/Mozilla) - i.e. could do an analysis of past
data, bug fix times, etc
iv) Extension security
b) Javascript debugging tools - how to build a workable
debugger for
a dynamic web language
c) XUL Development tools - how to build a visual GUI builder
for XUL applications
d) RSS - how to build discoverable RSS reading into the
browser
e) UI/User Experience projects
i) Tabbed browsing - how to make it discoverable for
novice
users, how to manage with many tabs open etc
ii) Bookmarks management - how to manage very large
and dynamic sets of bookmarks
Please reply to this message with your ideas
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