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| + | | mAuth (pronounced moth) || The N900 is a very powerful device, however we can't shake away the fact that many of us still use desktops on a daily basis. Using username/password authentication is highly insecure, because it forces the repeated typing of the same credentials in the same room, roughly at the same time every day. One option for this are smart cards. However they are expensive and the concepts behind them are extremely complicated for anyone who doesn't work in the industry, and as such implementing them at home would be a nightmare. One solution around this would be to have the N900 (or any other NIT for that matter) emulate being a smart card, and use bluetooth to connect to the computer. The authentication and encryption certificates are stored on the N900 and provided to the computer when in bluetooth range, however as soon as the N900 is taken away, the session is locked as the computer believes the "smart card" has been removed. || - Maemo SDK to create the smart card emulator daemon - Bluetooth networking or bluetooth bi-directional communication - PC/SC driver for Windows - Excellent documentation - great packaging || extremely hard (probably impossible) || [[User:crashanddie|crashanddie]] 07:46, 20 February 2010 (UTC) || || | ||
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Maemo provides a framework for developing applications for mobile devices, as well as porting existing applications in the Linux world. Look at the projects available at garage.maemo.org to get an idea of what already exists, in order to come up with your brand new ideas. They can be new functionality added to a consolidated application, a first prototype for promising new applications exploring new functionality, or a small but killer application bringing the unexpected. We recommend you to propose small challenges that can be completed successfully instead of big plans impossible to conclude in 3 months. It's useful to develop a cool new module to be used by other applications or setting a first stone in a project to attract new attention.
Add your project ideas to the table below.
If you are an accepted mentor and want to mentor one of the possible projects, add your name to the table with your maemo.org nickname (eg. Valério Valério (vdvsx)).
Note: Everybody can add ideas to the list, there's no need to be a mentor or a student. Don't try to guess if your idea will be implemented in Maemo6 or not, just add it to the list. Maemo SW will help in order to avoid duplicated work.
Ideas List
Note: This list isn't exclusive, if you are a student and have an idea that isn't listed here, don't hesitate to apply with your own idea, but it's probably a good idea to ask in the Maemo community opinions about your idea.
Other possible projects/ideas can be grabbed from the Maemo community wish-list, ports wish-list and you can also take a look at the Maemo documentation in order to have some ideas.
All the ideas below are possible GSoC projects, some of them need more investigation work than others that are already in a final stages, but all of them start at the same level for us. The students must do some investigation before proposing a project; we are here to help, but it isn't acceptable to just copy and paste the descriptions below to the student's applications.
| Final proposal | Study of alternatives needed | Draft proposal |
| Title | Abstract/Description | Skills | Difficulty (Easy/Medium/Hard) | Reporter | Possible Mentor(s) | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dooble Web Browser | Porting http://dooble.sf.net webkit browser to maemo platform | maemo SDK, packaging an installer | easy | http://dooble.sf.net | http://dooble.sf.net | If someone is interested in a webbrowser on maemo, we would mentor it |
| Facebook Events Sync | Creating an application/daemon to synchronise facebook events to the calendar | maemo SDK, packaging an installer | easy | cocayden | ||
| Google Reader Offline | Creating an application synchronize with Google Reader to enable offline-reading of Google Reader's contents. | maemo SDK, packaging an installer | easy | bob | ||
| OTR Support for Telepathy | Integrate libotr support in the existing protocol stack | maemo SDK, packaging, telepathy, some crypto | medium | |||
| Remmina remote desktop | Porting Remmina (http://remmina.sf.net), a multi-protocol GTK+ remote desktop client that supports NX, to Maemo | maemo SDK, packaging an installer, familiarity with NX | medium (some missing dependencies, uses newer GLib) | nadavwr | Remmina supports VNC and RDP, and more importantly trunk has functional NX support. It has zooming and panning features, making it appealing for low resolution displays.
The main motivation is having usable NX remoting on the N900, which would be game changing (for those who need it, anyway...) | |
| mAuth (pronounced moth) | The N900 is a very powerful device, however we can't shake away the fact that many of us still use desktops on a daily basis. Using username/password authentication is highly insecure, because it forces the repeated typing of the same credentials in the same room, roughly at the same time every day. One option for this are smart cards. However they are expensive and the concepts behind them are extremely complicated for anyone who doesn't work in the industry, and as such implementing them at home would be a nightmare. One solution around this would be to have the N900 (or any other NIT for that matter) emulate being a smart card, and use bluetooth to connect to the computer. The authentication and encryption certificates are stored on the N900 and provided to the computer when in bluetooth range, however as soon as the N900 is taken away, the session is locked as the computer believes the "smart card" has been removed. | - Maemo SDK to create the smart card emulator daemon - Bluetooth networking or bluetooth bi-directional communication - PC/SC driver for Windows - Excellent documentation - great packaging | extremely hard (probably impossible) | crashanddie 07:46, 20 February 2010 (UTC) |