Re: [IMPORTANT] Ideas for Summer of Code 2016

[Christian Grothoff]

Hi Guiseppe,

I've collected ideas for GNU Taler and GNUnet. I'm listing them with "primary"
mentor, but we do have backups if needed.

Happy hacking!

Christian

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Store integration for Taler merchants

Implement Taler payment support for an open source web store, such as
   Magento(.com), oscommerce(.com), opencart(.com),
   spreecommerce(.com), prestashop(.com), virtuemart(.net),
   ubercart(.org) zeuscart(.com), afcommerce(.com), zen-cart(.com),
   simplecartjs(.com), or tomatocard(.com).

Mentors: Marcello Stanisci

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Auto-pay tokens in Taler

Implement the auto-pay tokens specification for Taler.  Intended to
help Tor users circumvent CloudFlare CAPTCHAs with CloudFlare's
eventual cooperation.

Mentors: Jeff Burdges


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Rust implementation of GNUnet utils

Improve the Rust implementation of GNUnet utils, possibly including
adding support for asynchronous IO using mio, or perhaps a higher level
asynchronous IO library built upon it, such as rotor, mioco,
eventual_io, or gj.

Mentors: Jeff Burdges


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Implementation of a replacement for PANDA

Implementation of a replacement for PANDA (see Pond) with better
security, and maybe integration with the GNU Name System for key
exchange.

Mentors: Jeff Burdges

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Tor compatibility for GNUnet

Implement the AnycastExit spec to enable GNUnet clients to connect over
Tor.

Mentors: Jeff Burdges

Note : There was a Special TLDs spec to allow tor to resolve domain
names using GNS over Tor too, but currently that's on hold until folks
think more about how names should be moved around the local system.
 We're calling this more collaborative approach NSS2 for now.



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RESTful GNUnet

Design and implementation of REST APIs (http://jsonapi.org/) that
expose the GNUnet API (https://gnunet.org/doxygen/modules.html) so that
easy, hands-on development is possible. Also, browser-based UIs will be
much easier to create on top of REST APIs.

Mentors: Martin Schanzenbach

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> wrote:

Giuseppe Scrivano writes:

> Hi everyone!
>
> Google is accepting applications for the next Summer of Code and as
> usual we are going to apply for it.
>
> We should start thinking about a list of ideas for the next Summer of
> Code and potential mentors.
>
> This is the list of ideas we had last year:
>
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2015.html
>
> Is there anything left undone that can be reused this year?
>
> Please start sending ideas to add to the page and link them to the
> potential mentors that can help with it.
>
> Please send the html snippet for the ideas (look at the html for the
> previous year to get an idea), so that it can be embedded in the page as
> it is.
>
> Regards,
> Giuseppe

Both MediaGoblin and Guix have external webpages with lists of ideas for
2016 GSoC:

  https://wiki.mediagoblin.org/GSOC_2016
  https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2016