Google Summer Of Code 2010: Ideas

This page lists ideas of a possible participation in GSoC2010 . Actual list of mentoring organizations selected by Google will be published on 18th March 2010.

Core Node

• Rewrite DNS module – using c-ares . See this
• Port to windows.
• HTML parser
• Ability to do text user interfaces (by binding to ncurses) (a binding now exists for this for node)

Web

• Apache Sling-like REST style web framework.
• A templating framework that abstracts the different languages available into a clean asynchronous wrapper
• In browser MVC framework
• Browser based IDE for node.js using node_debug

Bindings

• Async MySQL bindings – using MySAC
• Net-SNMP bindings (http://www.net-snmp.org/)

Other

• Thrift/Avro/PB interfaces
• Port env.js to node
  • And/or maybe jsdom (-tmpvar: this is already available to node!)
  • Abstract Qt’s DOM Parser for use within Node.js.
    • Maybe a better idea, is to bind libxml2 and a XML serializer
• Add support for UDP to node (Commit 02da5ed)
• A graphics library, ideally using the same API as html canvas (a solid set of low level bindings to Cairo or AGG or Skia would suffice) – this is being worked on by a few people
• Implement a well-documented, require()able message queue server (using AMQP?)
• Implement a well-documented, require()able IRC server

KDE SOC ideas is a great place to look for a template for ideas