Difference between revisions of "Summer of Code 2012"

[http://buddycloud.com/ buddycloud] is an open social network designed to be simple to use and built on XMPP. If you're interested in any of these ideas or even has some own ideas, you can contact us in seehaus@channels.buddycloud.com room or see the [https://buddycloud.org/wiki/GSOC_2012

buddycloud GSOC] page for how to apply. [https://buddycloud.org/wiki/GSOC_2012] also has 'next steps' and 'teaser task' information for these proposals.

* '''Summary''' reinvent how we send instant messages

* '''Difficulty''' Difficult

* '''Details'''  Instant messaging is broken: you join a conversation with no context or history. Sometimes you wonder if your message really reached the recipient. Some clients tell the other person when you are typing and perhaps you don't want that. Good instant messaging is an essential part of XMPP. This project will add messaging support into buddycloud and make it into something that works so well that user can depend on it. Users of your code and design should fall in love with how smoothly and wonderfully instant messaging can work. You will be hacking on reliability, functionality and usability. You will be looking at other systems, looking at existing protocols for message storage and be inventing a significantly better way to communicate in private.

* '''More info'''

** http://carsonified.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/maslow-hierarchy-interface-design.png

** http://doomsong.co.uk/extensions/render/message-archive-management.html  

** http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0136.html

* '''Summary''' buddycloud users deserve a great (and predictable) experience

* '''Difficulty''' Medium - Difficult

* '''Details'''  At buddycloud HQ we're trying to make more than a "Yeah I think it supports that..." service. When a sysadmin deploys a buddycloud server they should know that it absolutely works as expeced and has passed your rigerous test suite. To run these tests your project will be to devise a suite of tests that eventually produces a table like http://mobilehtml5.org/

Your project will define the base standard of support that guarantees a buddycloud compatible server works as expected. Your tests will help sysadmins choose standards compliant servers and help users know when their server is not supporting all features (and encourage non-standard implmentations to fix their implementations).

* '''More info'''

** http://www.tigase.org/project/testsuite

** http://seleniumhq.org/projects/

* '''Summary''' Enable users to share where they were, where they are now, and where they want to go next with their trusted friends in buddycloud. This project will build a social location server that keeps user data private and also let's users query for nearby channels.

* '''Difficulty''' Difficult

* '''Details''' Designed to serve HTML5 and mobile clients, your social location server will enable a user to bookmark locations that are then stored as either just a name or with incrementally more information such as address, associated wifi and cellID data and perhaps even a lat/long. When a user moves around the world with their buddycloud-enabled phone or webclient, your server will update their location and place them at previously set location bookmarks.

** Receive XEP-0255 formatted beacon stanzas from the buddycloud webclient and mobile clients. This could arrive in the form of wifi-MACs, Cell-IDs, or GPS coordinates.

** match the user with previously bookmarked places like "home", "work" or "Cafe on Main Street"

** Scale to millions of queries/minute.

** Provide reverse geo-locate lat-long

** Cache frequent queries

** Enable the user to manage their place bookmarks

** Pattern match on beacon data and place users back at bookmarked places

** The code should be opensouce and deployable as an XMPP component onto any XMPP domain.

* '''Skills''' GIS functions, database scaling techniques, XMPP component design

* '''See Also'''

** https://buddycloud.org/wiki/Place_Management

* '''Summary''' Build an open-source XMPP client for Android or iOS

* '''Difficulty''' Given the time constrainsts, extremely

* '''Details'''   

** location updating and sharing with XEP-0080 and XEP-0255

** do channel posting and updating using pub-sub

** handle mood and location setting

** pay particular attention to ease of use and good UI design principles

*'''Skills'''

** Good XMPP knowledge

** XMPPFramework or Asmack-lib experience

* '''Summary''' Work with the core buddycloud team to spec and build a reference implementation of the buddycloud media server

* '''Difficulty''' Difficult

*'''Details'''  Sharing videos, pictures and documents powers so much of what we do on the internet and strengthens relationships with loved ones. We all loving seeing photos of loved ones, funny videos or albums of friend's events. Your help on this project will make a huge impact: a well designed media server has the power to change the way we share media and work documents. This project is special - it will be working very closely with the buddycloud core team and other XMPP exports to rethink how  we share media: both in buddycloud channels and when we send instant messages. This project is much more than building another Twitpic clone.

*'''See Also'''

** http://salon.io/

** https://buddycloud.org/wiki/Buddycloud_media_server