[Cosmo] Re: Projects for OSU

[Ted Leung]

A consolidated list of proposed projects is available here <http:// 
wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/TedLeung20060127>.   If you  
have any additional ideas. please add them there.  I'd like to get a  
preliminary version of this list to the OSL folks by the end of this  
week.

Ted

On Jan 23, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Ted Leung wrote:

> 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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