Ongoing Mozilla Student Projects
November 20, 2012 § Leave a Comment
It is that time of the year already. No, I do not mean Diwali or Christmas Shopping Frenzy, but Mozilla Student Projects. A number of students have started projects, and I will try and post updates regularly.
As you will see, for the moment, students seem to have a few difficulties with communication. So, here is a general message to all students working on these projects: please work in the open! Use your issue tracker, your git, communicate on IRC, blog about your work, etc. Working in silence is a good way to ensure that your project will also die in silence.
Running on time
MSP #10: Map Your Friends
Start date: October 30th, 2012
Team: [Guys, I’d like to have your names!]
Objective: A group of people wants to be able to track each other on a map in real-time. Useful for sport, games, but also rescue teams.
Message to the team: Currently on hold due to exams, but early results look quite encouraging. Sorry it took me so long to review your code. Keep up the good work, but please, please, separate cleanly your JavaScript from your PHP code.
Too early to tell
MSP #42: Bombermaaaan
Start date: October 30th, 2012
Team: [Guys, I’d like to have your names!] (Université d’Évry)
Objective: A great game, for the touchscreen web.
Message to the team: No current activity that I know of, but I see some issues on the tracker, so I will not classify this as “Worrying silence” just yet. Hey, team, what’s your status?
MSP #51: Reimplement Qix as a FirefoxOS-friendly Open Web Application
Start date: October 30th, 2012
Team: [Guys, I’d like to have your names!] (Université d’Évry)
Objective: A great game, for the touchscreen web.
Message to the team: No activity that I know of, the team recently asked questions regarding testing with FFOS, so I will not classify this as “Worrying silence” just yet. Hey, team, what’s your status?
Worrying silence
MSP #1: An Open Web App for editing rich text file
Start date: October 6th, 2012.
Team: Abhishek Potnis, Amod Narvekar, Pratik Patil (Vidyavardhini’s College Of Engineering and Technology, Mumbai University, India).
Objective: Build an Open Web Application that can be used to edit simple web pages, using HTML contentEditable. This application must work offline and must be friendly to touch screen devices.
Message to the team: For the moment, I have received a number of questions but I have not seen anything that suggests progress. Team, I am counting on you all to get back on tracks.
MSP #8: An Open Web App for reading RSS streams
Start date: October 30th, 2012
Team: [Guys, I’d like to have your names!] (Université d’Évry)
Objective: Read RSS streams on any open web app-enabled device.
Message to the team: Are you alive?
MSP #9: Run-run-run
Start date: October 30th, 2012
Team: [Guys, I’d like to have your names!] (Université d’Évry)
Objective: An open web application that can be used to record times and positions while running, biking, hiking, etc.
Message to the team: Are you alive?
MSP #45: Tux of Math Command
Start date: October 30th, 2012
Team: [Guys, I’d like to have your names!] (Université d’Évry)
Objective: Port game Tux of Math Command to all web app-enabled devices, in particular touch screen devices.
Message to the team: Are you alive?
MSP #50: A 3d demo in Rust
Start date: October 30th, 2012
Team: [Guys, I’d like to have your names!] (Université d’Évry)
Objective: Demonstrate how to unleash the power of Rust, in 3D.
Message to the team: Are you alive?
