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.

Projects

Project	Link	Mentors	Interested Students
HTML Bleaching in JavaScript	https://github.com/jsocol/bleach	[jbuck, Pomax]	Mohamed Baig Shavauhn Gabay Elsi Nushaj Xiaodong Chen
DOM diff'ing in Thimble	https://github.com/pomax/DOM-diff	[Pomax, jbuck]	Elsi Nushaj Husain Fazal Alex Craig Mark Aronin Jose Romasanta
Updated API for Webmaker Login, User Creation	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=890538	[sedge]	Petr Bouianov 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]	Kevin Kofler Petr Bouianov Barry Tulchinsky
Webmaker Events Improvements		[cade, mjschranz, cappleton]	Kevin Kofler 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, ?]	Mark Aronin Jose Romasanta Alex Craig Michael Veis Shajinth Pathmakulaseelan Matthew Torrance Kavalchyk Dzmitry Tony Yu
Make Editor Improvements	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=906095, among others	[cade, jacob]	Mark Aronin Husain Fazal Petr Bouianov Kavalchyk Dzmitry Natesh Mayuranathan Tony Yu Barry Tulchinsky Kajanthan Tharmabalan
MakeAPI Metrics	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910403)	[cade]	Kevin Kofler Natesh Mayuranathan Petr Bouianov Matthew Torrance Barry Tulchinsky
WebVTT and Track element Polyfill using vtt.js		[reyre]	Simon de Almeida Kevin Kofler Barry Tulchinsky
Add PhantomJS based tests to vtt.js' TravisCI automated test suite		[reyre]	Nitin Prakash Alex Kotliar
More WebVTT spec tests, including things like UTF8, processing model, etc.		[reyre]	Simon de Almeida Kirill Sochnev
Webmaker Technical Documentation		[Pomax]	Michael Veis Nitin Prakash Shajinth Pathmakulaseelan
Improve Webmaker local-deploy/dev situation		[Pomax, cade, k88hudson]	Husain Fazal Barry Tulchinsky Kajanthan Tharmabalan
Connect Google Analytics for Makes to Make Details			Natesh Mayuranathan Jose Romasanta Shajinth Pathmakulaseelan Nitin Prakash 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]	Mohamed Baig Robert Stanica Elsi Nushaj Kavalchyk Dzmitry Mark Aronin Xiaodong Chen Kajanthan Tharmabalan
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]	Mohamed Baig Michael Veis Barry Tulchinsky
RTL (Right To Left) localization work (Arabic, Hebrew)		[ali, igor, gvn, cappleton]	Nitin Prakash Barry Tulchinsky
Localize Webmaker in a new language		[ali, igor]	Mark Aronin [Russian] Kirill Sochnev [Russian] Kavalchyk Dzmitry [Russian] Xiaodong Chen [Chinese]
Improve Webmaker for Mobile/Tablets		[gvn, cappleton]	Mohamed Baig Michael Veis Robert Stanica Shajinth Pathmakulaseelan Alex Kotliar
Integrate Firefox Dev Tools with Webmaker Publishing and MakeAPI			Mohamed Baig 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.