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| Chirematic || View the world around you as if color blind or various other vision impairments || Maemo SDK, packaging, GStreamer || epage || epage || Possibly beneficial to desktop Linux as well
| Chirematic || View the world around you as if color blind or various other vision impairments || Maemo SDK, packaging, GStreamer || epage || epage || Possibly beneficial to desktop Linux as well
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| ''Google Reader Offline'' || Creating an application synchronize with Google Reader to enable offline-reading of Google Reader's contents. || maemo SDK, packaging an installer || bob || Frederico Schardong ([[User:frede|frede]]) ||
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| ''Google Reader Offline'' || Creating an application synchronize with Google Reader to enable offline-reading of Google Reader's contents. || maemo SDK, packaging an installer || bob || Frederico Schardong ([[User:frede|frede]]) ||  
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| ''Advanced To-do list'' || Creating an advanced To-do list, with the ability to attach files, including audio recording, messages, emails, etc., linking multiple tasks and updating the priority of a task based on the time left || maemo SDK, Qt || || || The current To-do lists in most Nokia mobiles are disappointing. These added functionalities could make one's phone their own 24 hr assistant
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| ''Selected frame video reversing'' || developing a mobile application which reverse  a selected video file. we could also provide editing options like providing an audio channel for special effects. a complex version is, we should be able to select a frame in video and reverse it so that rest of frame plays forward simultaneously || maemo sdk ,gstreamer || || || It would be a new form entertaining application. video reversing softwares are present but we cuold implement them first time in mobiles
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| ''MyWallet'' || a personalized secure application that will keep track of user's accounts, expenses, savings, etc; set alarms for payment deadlines and schedule upcoming stuffs like insurance plan and loan payments.;can function as a database for for storing and organizing sensitive informations like credit card details, passwords, etc; || maemo SDK, Qt || || ||This would be an improvement upon the existing applications which provide similar services with great prospect for improvements and addition of features. Also versions with varied functionalities can help in reaching out to a larger pool of users.
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| ''FreOffice - Online doc viewer'' || Adding online document(Slide share / Zoho...) viewing support for FreOffice  || maemo SDK, Qt || || mani ||
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! Title !! Abstract/Description !! Skills !! Reporter !! Possible Mentor(s) !! Comments                              
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| ''Quran player for maemo''  || Creating a complete Quran application based on Qt|| maemo SDK, Qt || [[User:karatchov|karatchov]] ||  || Please see [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=590086 this thread] for more informations
 
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| ''RetroShare Messenger''  || Porting RetroShare Messenger  || maemo SDK, packaging an installer || http://retroshare.sf.net - http://retromessenger.sf.net ||  || There has been talk about it on the  [[http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/telepathy/2010-March/004361.html  telepathy mailing list]].
| ''RetroShare Messenger''  || Porting RetroShare Messenger  || maemo SDK, packaging an installer || http://retroshare.sf.net - http://retromessenger.sf.net ||  || There has been talk about it on the  [[http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/telepathy/2010-March/004361.html  telepathy mailing list]].
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| ''OTR Support for Telepathy'' || Integrate libotr support in the existing protocol stack || maemo SDK, packaging, telepathy, some crypto ||  ||  || This will require supporting it in Telepathy, the spec is being worked on. (but its doable)
| ''OTR Support for Telepathy'' || Integrate libotr support in the existing protocol stack || maemo SDK, packaging, telepathy, some crypto ||  ||  || This will require supporting it in Telepathy, the spec is being worked on. (but its doable)
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| Answering Machine/Call Rejector || Answering machine and call rejector based on black lists and white lists. [http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/answering_machine_on_n900/ Brainstorm entry], [http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/call_rejector-developers_needed/ Brainstorm entry] || Maemo, Qt, GStreamer || [http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/answering_machine_on_n900/ Brainstorm entry], [http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/call_rejector-developers_needed/ Brainstorm entry] || [[User:zaheerm|zaheerm]] || An answering machine (with sound and possibly video) is a mildly complex gstreamer application
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| Answering Machine/Call Rejector || Answering machine and call rejector based on black lists and white lists. [http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/answering_machine_on_n900/ Brainstorm entry], [http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/call_rejector-developers_needed/ Brainstorm entry] || Maemo, Qt, GStreamer || [http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/answering_machine_on_n900/ Brainstorm entry], [http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/call_rejector-developers_needed/ Brainstorm entry] || || An answering machine (with sound and possibly video) is a mildly complex gstreamer application
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| sharing-service-telepathy || Integrate IM file transfer support with Maemo through the Sharing plugin system || Maemo SDK, packaging, Telepathy, Maemo Sharing Plugin system || epage || epage || I think this is feasible but the fact it hasn't been done yet makes me a bit hesitant. Jonny Lamb (who did the file transfer UI) already tried it.
| sharing-service-telepathy || Integrate IM file transfer support with Maemo through the Sharing plugin system || Maemo SDK, packaging, Telepathy, Maemo Sharing Plugin system || epage || epage || I think this is feasible but the fact it hasn't been done yet makes me a bit hesitant. Jonny Lamb (who did the file transfer UI) already tried it.
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| ''Canola UPNP plugin''  || Creating a plugin for Canola to deal with UPNP, possibly using the eupnp library  || python, upnp || lfelipe || lfelipe ||
| ''Canola UPNP plugin''  || Creating a plugin for Canola to deal with UPNP, possibly using the eupnp library  || python, upnp || lfelipe || lfelipe ||
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| [http://wiki.maemo.org/GSoC_2010/Projects/Porting_Canola_to_Maemo5 ''Porting Canola to Maemo5 and beyond''] || This task involves making sure that Canola works on Maemo5 and also making changes to integrate it better, possibly switching from LMS to Tracker, etc. Taking Meego under consideration is a big plus. || python, C || lfelipe || lfelipe ||
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| ''Porting Canola to Maemo5 and beyond''  || This task involves making sure that Canola works on Maemo5 and also making changes to integrate it better, possibly switching from LMS to Tracker, etc. Taking Meego under consideration is a big plus. || python, C || lfelipe || lfelipe ||
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| aGLESory || Adapt or implement a flexible OpenGL wrapper for Maemo. || OpenGL, libraries and gcc, packaging, documentation, maemo SDK || Flandry || [[User:thp|thp]] || This really needs no introduction...we all know how huge it would be to have a painless wrapper for at least basic OpenGL functionality. This project would be about getting someone to blaze the path and mark it clearly.
| aGLESory || Adapt or implement a flexible OpenGL wrapper for Maemo. || OpenGL, libraries and gcc, packaging, documentation, maemo SDK || Flandry || [[User:thp|thp]] || This really needs no introduction...we all know how huge it would be to have a painless wrapper for at least basic OpenGL functionality. This project would be about getting someone to blaze the path and mark it clearly.
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| Desktop Couch || Port [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktopcouch/Documentation Desktop Couch] to the maemo platform and integrate it with various applications (contacts, calender, etc) || Desktop Couch, python packaging, documentation, maemo SDK ||  ||  ||  
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| Desktop Couch || Port Desktop Couch to the maemo platform and integrate it with various applications (contacts, calender, etc) http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktopcouch/Documentation || Desktop Couch, python packaging, documentation, maemo SDK ||  ||  ||  
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| Locality || An Android [http://the-gadgeteer.com/2009/05/29/locale-for-android-review/ Locale] clone to automate various aspects of the OS and life || Maemo SDK, packaging, UI, possibly DBus || epage || epage, [[User:thp|thp]] || Beneficial to desktop Linux as well.  Shepherd sounds like it might fill a similar role and is currently in development.
| Locality || An Android [http://the-gadgeteer.com/2009/05/29/locale-for-android-review/ Locale] clone to automate various aspects of the OS and life || Maemo SDK, packaging, UI, possibly DBus || epage || epage, [[User:thp|thp]] || Beneficial to desktop Linux as well.  Shepherd sounds like it might fill a similar role and is currently in development.
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| MeeGo: power usage tuning || Linux is far from being power-optimal, not to say the complex and bulky desktop components. There are so many things can be done in this area for the vast collection of free software running on MeeGo that I don't know which is most important yet. Do you know it? || OS, profiler || Yan Li ([[User:yanli|yanli]]) || Yan Li ([[User:yanli|yanli]]) || [http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/ PowerTOP] is a good start. The hard part in this idea is the participant has to have a power meter to measure the real-time power usage, or you have no way to know your progress. Some computer science or EE labs in universities have that meter. But there are still tasks can be done even without a power meter, like running major software parts within a profiler to identify and optimize hot spots.
| MeeGo: power usage tuning || Linux is far from being power-optimal, not to say the complex and bulky desktop components. There are so many things can be done in this area for the vast collection of free software running on MeeGo that I don't know which is most important yet. Do you know it? || OS, profiler || Yan Li ([[User:yanli|yanli]]) || Yan Li ([[User:yanli|yanli]]) || [http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/ PowerTOP] is a good start. The hard part in this idea is the participant has to have a power meter to measure the real-time power usage, or you have no way to know your progress. Some computer science or EE labs in universities have that meter. But there are still tasks can be done even without a power meter, like running major software parts within a profiler to identify and optimize hot spots.
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| MaeAgent || How frustrating it is to have your mobile phone stolen! And how happy would you become if you got it back! The aim is to implement different methods to silently communicate with a stolen phone in order to retrieve it. || Learning from other code, Maemo DBUS APIs, and preferably C || Tarek Galal ([[User:tgalal|tgalal]])|| || There are some discussions and collection of ideas here [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=38605 here]
 
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| The Tablet of Adventure || a tool for generating and sharing location-based adventures with Maemo devices. The adventures may be manually created or follow the Geohashing "automatic adventure generator" concept as popularised by the xkcd comic. || Python, libchamplain, Midgard || Susanna Huhtanen ([[User:ihmis-suski|ihmis-suski]]) || [[User:bergie|bergie]] || [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=48680 Proposal on TMO]
 
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| Social location services aggregator || An applicattion that will integrate location services like Google Latitude, Fire eagle, Foursquare and Gowalla. Should show friends from all supported services on the same map. Chosing a venue should update location for all services. || Python, Geoclue, Qt || Andrei Mirestean ([[User:andrei1089|andrei1089]])  || [[User:thp|thp]], [[User:bergie|bergie]] ||
 
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| tracker full-text extractor || tracker extractor support full-text index of text,sms,email,and so on  ||  maemo,tracker,c++,gtk|| sunyi0225 ([[User:sunyi0225|sunyi0225]]),wangguan  ||  ||
 
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| ''FreOffice - EBook support'' || Adding DjVu/epub/PS/PDF support to FreOffice  || maemo SDK, Qt || || mani ||
 
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| ''FaceBrick for maemo''  || Working on features and improvements for Maemo's Facebook client || maemo SDK, Qt, libqfacebook || [[User:W00t|w00t]] || [[User:W00t|w00t]] || Main thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=49216
 
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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 || [[User:crashanddie|crashanddie]] 07:46, 20 February 2010 (UTC) || ||  
| 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 || [[User:crashanddie|crashanddie]] 07:46, 20 February 2010 (UTC) || ||  
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| Robotics Simulator || Bring a full-blown robotics simulator to Maemo/MeeGo. For the start, the 2.5D simulator Player/Stage (http://playerstage.sf.net) would be ported and a simple GUI be written. Later integration with Fawkes (http://www.fawkesrobotics.org) can provide some nice demos and scripting environment to start into robotics. If there is interest in this project some studies are needed to check whether the device is generally computationally powerful enough for simple scenarios. Although not a classic Maemo application, this can be seen as an educational effort to get students interested and start playing with (virtual) robots. || Maemo SDK, packaging, Player/Stage, Fawkes, background in robotics software strongly recommended || timn ||  || Given a mentor I would like to pursue this project over the summer. It can be an eye catcher for the N900, if you can have a simulated robot on the device and instruct it to accomplish tasks.
| Robotics Simulator || Bring a full-blown robotics simulator to Maemo/MeeGo. For the start, the 2.5D simulator Player/Stage (http://playerstage.sf.net) would be ported and a simple GUI be written. Later integration with Fawkes (http://www.fawkesrobotics.org) can provide some nice demos and scripting environment to start into robotics. If there is interest in this project some studies are needed to check whether the device is generally computationally powerful enough for simple scenarios. Although not a classic Maemo application, this can be seen as an educational effort to get students interested and start playing with (virtual) robots. || Maemo SDK, packaging, Player/Stage, Fawkes, background in robotics software strongly recommended || timn ||  || Given a mentor I would like to pursue this project over the summer. It can be an eye catcher for the N900, if you can have a simulated robot on the device and instruct it to accomplish tasks.
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