Ubuntu Wiki

Mentors

We need your help to make GSoC 2013 a success! Do you contribute to Ubuntu? If you do, please consider becoming a mentor this summer. Add your name to this page, as well as suggestions for projects you would like to mentor.

Project ideas

Students, please read our advice for students in addition to the ideas on this page. Remember, these are just suggestions! If your favourite idea isn't here, don't worry. You are welcome to use your own project idea when you submit your student application. Of course, it is a good idea to look around and find someone who would be interested in mentoring your project. Perhaps someone is offering to mentor a similar project?

When adding a project idea…

• Try to explain your idea quickly. If you need more words, consider linking to another wiki page.
• Make sure your idea is understandable for someone who is new to Ubuntu development.
• If you are interested in mentoring that idea, please leave your name so potential students can contact you.
• Please use the following format and add your idea to the top of the list:

  • ==== Project name ====
     * ''Suggested by'': YourName (linking to your personal wiki page or your Launchpad profile)
     * ''Mentors'': Anyone interested in mentoring the project
     * ''Description'': Describe the project in 80 words or less.
     * ''Resources'': Link to helpful resources like the project home page.
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Accessibility Improvements

• Suggested by: David Bensimon (komputes)

• Mentors:

• Description: Improving Text To Speech Voices and Speech Recognition.

• Resources: Project notes

Fontmatrix

• Suggested by: David Bensimon (komputes)

• Mentors:

• Description: Font manager. Project needs a new maintainer since 2009.

• Resources: Fontmatrix website

Twinkle SIP Client

• Suggested by: David Bensimon (komputes)

• Mentors:

• Description: Project needs a new maintainer. Twinkle is unmantained since 2009. This project tries to rescue it by asking developers to contribute to it. The main task is to migrate Twinkle from Qt3 to Qt4 and to get it back into Ubuntu's repositories. It is an extremely useful and powerful SIP client.

• Resources: Twinkle website

Ubuntu Friendly Improvements

• Suggested by: David Bensimon (komputes)

• Mentors:

• Description: Making UF more comprehensive. Attempt to build a hardware compatibility database for Ubuntu. Currently UF lists ratings on entire systems. Looking for a student who would like to add component based (USB and PCI ID based) specific compatibility pages. Please contact me if you are interested in discussing this improvement.

• Resources: Information about Ubuntu Friendly, Brainstorm page, Feature blueprint

Add feature to customize sound effects

• Suggested by: David Bensimon (komputes)

• Mentors:

• Description:

• Resources: Feature request

Firefox: Seamlessly open and save files over the network using GVFS

• Suggested by: David Bensimon (komputes)

• Mentors:

• Description:

• Resources: Feature request

Changing volume labels (disk name) in nautilus

• Suggested by: David Bensimon (komputes)

• Mentors:

• Description:

• Resources: Feature request

Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

• Suggested by: David Bensimon (komputes)

• Mentors:

• Description: The clipboard deletes content in the clipboard when quitting the source program. This means Copy -> Quit -> (Can't Paste). Still affects LibreOffice and GTK+.

• Resources: Feature request