GSoC/2019/Accepted Projects

= Weekly meeting =

Weekly meeting of Mentors, Students, Org Admins and other interested parties every Monday 15:00 UTC at gsoc@muc.xmpp.org. Everyone is welcomed.

Prosody plugin installer
Student: João Duarte GSoC Blog: https://gsoc-prosody-2019.blogspot.com Mentors: MattJ

João lives in Portugal and usually studies Aerospace Engineering. This summer he will be developing an integration between Prosody and the LuaRocks package manager and ecosystem,allowing installation and management of third-party Prosody modules via simple commands.

Poezio infinite scrolling using MAM
Student: Madhur Garg GSoC Blog: https://madhur96.github.io/gsoc19/ Mentors: pep, Link Mauve

Madhur is a student of the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India. He likes Python and C++. Outside of programming, he likes guitar and trekking.

This summer he will be working on adding “Infinite scroll” support to poezio, the console client, using Message Archive Management (MAM, XEP-0313), as well as some other general improvements.

Jingle File Transfer
Student: hrxi GSoC Blog: https://hrxi.github.io/gsoc/ GSoC Blog Feed: https://gsoc-prosody-2019.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default Mentors: fixah, la|r|ma

hrxi will implement encrypted peer-to-peer Jingle file transfers in Dino. The encrypted connection will be set up by either one of the supported encryption protocols of Dino, OMEMO and OpenPGP. In order to achieve compatibility with web clients, it is planned to support WebRTC as a transport protocol. The implementation will be done in a way that allows building support for audio/video chat on top of it. hrxi is based in Germany, studies mathematics and computer science, and likes to write code in Rust.