This is the list of project ideas that the postmarketOS Core Team is interested in mentoring. GSoC interns can also propose their very own project ideas, but we expect them to engage with the community before or during the application period to get feedback and guidance to improve the proposal. If you are interested in proposing a project idea, make sure to have a postmarketOS-capable device and contact us on Matrix. To apply for any of our proposals, having a device is not a requirement, as they can be developed with QEMU. If the applicant lacks a device by the end of the project, we'll surely be provide one!

Proposals

Upstreaming and improving mobile-config-firefox

For many years, postmarketOS has been maintaining a small set of CSS and JS hacks to make desktop Firefox more useful on mobile. The project is widely used outside postmarketOS. We would like to upstream as many of our changes to Firefox as possible. This will include addressing feedback from Firefox maintainers and working with them to get these changes accepted. We will provide help with the management and communication with upstream developers.

Requirements:

CSS and JS experience. Nice to have would be experience debugging Firefox and creating adaptive designs with CSS and JS.

Communication:

Matrix (video call and email are secondary comms)

Mentors: Pablo Correa Gomez, Oliver Smith

Project length: 90, 175, or 350 hours. Any help is welcomed, and there's enough things to upstream to cover a 350 hours project.

pbsplash improvements: IPC, rotation, animations

pbsplash is a tiny utility used in postmarketOS for displaying an animation during boot. It is optimized for size, since it needs to be installed on some devices with a very small boot partition, where existing programs would be too large. As with any new tool, it is missing some features that would improve the user experience considerably.

Requirements:

Good C language knowledge. Knowledge on Linux graphics would be helpful.

Communication:

Matrix (video call and email are secondary comms)

Mentors: Clayton Craft, Caleb Connolly

Project length: 175 or 350 hours.

tqftpserv rewrite in Rust

tqftpserv is a project developed and used for various Qualcomm SoCs (phones, laptops, etc.) which implements a non-standard TFTP server which is used to serve firmware requests from the modem. The communication happens over a QRTR socket and is used by all modern phones with Qualcomm SoC in postmarketOS.

The implementation is currently written in C. A new implementtion in Rust is desirable to ensure memory safety and correctness, and at the same time making it easier to develop tests to ensure that no regression happens in the future.

Requirements:

Good Rust and C language knowledge.

Communication:

Matrix (video call and email are secondary comms)

Mentors: Pablo Correa Gomez, Luca Weiss

Project length: 175 or 350 hours.