DPS909 and OSD600 Fall 2013 Project List

The following list are projects, bugs, and prototypes that the Mozilla community has suggested you work on this term. They entail different types of work, technologies, and skills, and hopefully you'll be able to find one or more that interest you.

Please put your name beside the project(s) you think sound interesting. I've put the names of possible Mozilla mentors in square brackets.

Please visit the student list if you wish to contact someone from the "Interested Students" column.

Projects

Project	Link	Mentors	Interested Students
HTML Bleaching in JavaScript	https://github.com/jsocol/bleach	[jbuck, Pomax]	Shavauhn Gabay Elsi Nushaj Xiaodong Chen
DOM diff'ing in Thimble	https://github.com/pomax/DOM-diff	[Pomax, jbuck]	Husain Fazal Alex Craig Mark Aronin (Maximum 3 People - Pomax)
Updated API for Webmaker Login, User Creation	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=890538	[sedge]	Jose Romasanta Natesh Mayuranathan Barry Tulchinsky
Expanded HealthCheck API for MakeAPI, Login, etc	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=864942 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=867328	[cade, sedge, jp]	Barry Tulchinsky Chad Pilkey
Webmaker Events Improvements		[cade, mjschranz, cappleton]	Kevin Kofler (Final choice, email me if you'd also like to work on this, address is on user page) Barry Tulchinsky Kajanthan Tharmabalan
Webmaker/status page	Examples (github) https://status.github.com/ (twitter) http://status.twitter.com/ (facebook) https://developers.facebook.com/live_status	[jbuck, cappleton, ?]	Jose Romasanta Michael Veis Shajinth Pathmakulaseelan Matthew Torrance
Make Editor Improvements	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=906095, among others	[cade, jacob]	Tony Yu
MakeAPI Metrics	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910403)	[cade]	Natesh Mayuranathan Matthew Torrance Barry Tulchinsky
WebVTT and Track element Polyfill using vtt.js		[reyre]	Simon de Almeida Barry Tulchinsky
Add PhantomJS based tests to vtt.js' TravisCI automated test suite		[reyre]	Alex Kotliar
More WebVTT spec tests, including things like UTF8, processing model, etc.		[reyre]	Simon de Almeida Kirill Sochnev Jeffrey Espiritu
Webmaker Technical Documentation		[Pomax]	Michael Veis Shajinth Pathmakulaseelan
Improve Webmaker local-deploy/dev situation		[Pomax, cade, k88hudson]	Barry Tulchinsky
Connect Google Analytics for Makes to Make Details			Jose Romasanta Shajinth Pathmakulaseelan Chaobo Xie Matthew Torrance Xiaodong Chen
Thimble UI improvements	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=911169, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=907045 , etc.	[Pomax, cappleton, k88hudson, thecount]	Robert Stanica Elsi Nushaj Xiaodong Chen
Popcorn Maker Improvements and fixes	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=909428 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=909751 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=907766 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=900580 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=890416 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=859116	[mjschranz, thecount]	Michael Veis Barry Tulchinsky Husain Fazal Kavalchyk Dzmitry
RTL (Right To Left) localization work (Arabic, Hebrew)		[ali, igor, gvn, cappleton]
Localize Webmaker in a new language		[ali, igor]	Kirill Sochnev [Russian] Xiaodong Chen [Chinese]
Improve Webmaker for Mobile/Tablets	Some bugs	[gvn, cappleton]	Michael Veis Robert Stanica Shajinth Pathmakulaseelan Alex Kotliar Nitin Prakash
Integrate Firefox Dev Tools with Webmaker Publishing and MakeAPI	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=917950		Mohamed Baig (shotgun this project) Barry Tulchinsky Kajanthan Tharmabalan

You can also look at the list of 500+ open bugs in Webmaker, and find something else to work on there.