SoC/Ideas

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This page contains ideas for the Google Summer of Code.

If one of these projects interest you, please send an email to summercode@openchange.org or contact us on IRC #openchange on irc.freenode.net

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OpenChange tools graphical front-end

OpenChange provides some command-line tools which have numerous features but can sometimes confuse users. An interesting project for the Google Summer of Code would be to create graphical front-ends (Gtk and/or Qt) for openchange tools, furthermore work on the integration of administrative tools for Gnome/KDE.

Possible mentors: julien, jelmer

Thunderbird Integration

Mozilla Thunderbird is an email client that currently supports the POP and IMAP protocols to retrieve data. An interesting project for the Summer of Code would be to create a proof of concept patch for Thunderbird that allowed it to fetch email over MAPI within Linux.

Possible mentors: julien, jelmer

KMail/KOrganizer

KMail is the KDE email client. KOrganizer is the calendaring app for KDE. An interesting project would be to add support for accessing emails and calendar items over MAPI.

Possible mentors: julien, jelmer, brad hards

Fetchmail

Fetchmail is a simple command-line utility that can fetch emails over POP and IMAP. It would be interesting to also have it support MAPI (perhaps as a plugin?).

Possible mentors: julien, jelmer

Python/Perl bindings

Scripting languages like Python are more accessible for administrators than plain C and they are also much easier to use when writing test suites. You could work on extending the existing bindings for Perl or adding bindings for Python.

Possible mentors: julien, jelmer

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