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Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-13T04:38:55Z

Jesse Read: /* iOS Application Improvement */

Are you a GSOC student or mentor? Have questions? Contact us via IRC on [http://talk.amahi.org #amahi on irc.freenode.net] or on the amahi-devel [[mailing list]].

If you are interested in being a mentor, we have six great mentors as of today, but we're very welcoming of more ideas and more mentors!

If you are a student, come talk to us about the ideas below for possible projects! Don't forget that these are subject to suggestions, extensions or adaptations. Even new ideas will be considered. Some of these ideas are more mature and concrete than others.

The '''most important thing''' is to find an '''area that you enjoy''', using a programming language that you know or are willing to learn!

=List of Project Ideas=

== GUI and UX ==

===Better Theme Integration===

'''Description''': Our theme is pretty good, however, it's very customized.

'''Objective''':
* allow the usage of free themes out there, like themes for Drupal, Wordpress, etc.
* allow the integration of mobile themes
* detect mobile devices and present the mobile theme

'''Skills Required''': CSS, HTML5, ruby, RoR

'''Mentors''': Jesse, Carlos

==Installer==

===Improved Installation===

'''Description''': Improved installation, e.g. new Anaconda "node" or some similar thing for Ubuntu

'''Objective''':

'''Skills Required''': Python

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Jesse, Carlos

===User Onboarding===

'''Description''': Help users get their HDA up and running with minimal interaction.

'''Objective''': Happier users. The idea is to implement an automated configuration check tool.The current interactive network troubleshooter can be used as a starting point. The tool should:

* check if the installation was successful
* compare current settings against the expected settings
* automatically fix inconsistencies with no user interaction

'''Skills Required''': RoR, scripting, netflow capture, dhcping scripting

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Carlos

'''References''':
* [http://www.amahi.net Amahi Interactive Troubleshooter]

== Platform ==

===Plugin System===

'''Description''': Make the ability to create and install Amahi plugins easy and enable the creation of those plugins for a variety of purposes, like SMART monitoring, system stuff (network scanning, etc.) and the two examples below for the disk wizard and the Greyhole UI, among other ideas.

'''Objective''': Create an amahi plugin system, where PHP, Python, Node, and other modern webapps can be easily integrated. We can currently do this with some RoR engines, but the mechanism is not robust enough. The plugins system should allow modern web-based apps to be easily integrated with Amahi -- from Node.js apps to Ruby/PHP/Python -- so that users can easily reap the benefits of the onslaught of difficult-to-deploy modern web apps with a single click install.
ProTip: possibly leverage docker containers within Amahi

'''Skills Required''': RoR

'''Mentors''': Carlos, Rod

===Disk Wizard===

'''Description''': Expanding the storage capacity is an important feature of Amahi but as of now it requires advanced (e.g. command line) skills. We want easy disk/partition onboarding.
Also add the ability to be asked to mount USB drives as a share when they're connected & connect external shares from for example a NAS with the plugin system using that wizard.

'''Objective''': Create an amahi plugin that will streamline this process by providing a UI for disk management. The plugin should detect if a new disk was added and it should provide a wizard to create partitions and format with the desired file system

'''Skills Required''': Low level system scripting

'''Mentors''': Dag, Bogdan

'''References''':
* [http://www.openmediavault.org/ OpenMediaVault] does have a nice wizard that people like

===Greyhole UI===

'''Description''': Greyhole is an application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they're connected), and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails. The purpose of this plugin is to provide a UI and the necessary tools under the UI to make starting and managing a Greyhole UI possible and nice to understand for regular humans.

'''Objective''': Create and amahi plugin that provides an UI that allows for the management of the greyhole pool. The plugin should allow an administrator user to:
add/remove disks to/from the pool.
* change the number of copies for individual file/directory
* invoke various gh commands
* view and monitor log files
* gui to visualize data distribution

'''Skills Required''': RoR, System programing

'''Mentors''': Carlos, Rod

===Backup app data/settings===

'''Description''': An drawback of Amahi is that it's hard to backup the installed applications and their user data

'''Objective''': The plugin should allow an administrator to backup any application data either on an external media or in the cloud(e.g.: Dropbox, Google Drive, etc).The restore process should check if the application is installed on the HDA and if not it should be automatically installed from the AppStore before the user data is restored.
*Create an amahi plugin that will allow backup and restore of the user data for apps installed from the AppStore
*Centralising app data/configs - link them to app folder instead.
*"Destructive" update awareness
*Ability to list, outline data directories for backups/upgrade check

'''Skills Required''': System scripting

'''Mentor''': Rod, Daniel

== Apps==

Innovative app packaging or app related projects.

===Caching Server===

'''Description''': a caching proxy to save on bandwidth

'''Objective''': Develop and plugin that will allow an administrator user to control the traffic for specific devices inside the network. This app (or possibly a plugin) should display all the connected device as well as provide the ability to search by name/MAC address. For a selected device the administrator should:
*Limit access between certain time intervals
*Limit bandwidth
*Block certain websites (either on an individual basis or read them from a file)
*Limit traffic

'''Skills Required''': system configuration and scripting

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Jesse

===Network Groups===

'''Description''': Develop a plugin to allow network device grouping. This will be the framework for future plugins.

'''Objective''': Allow an administrator to group network devices in groups with different permissions. Limit the user access to certain apps based on the group settings.

'''Skills Required''': RoR, system programming

'''Mentors''': Jesse, Daniel

===Create UI and package it for RSnapshot===

'''Description''': Make a UI for rsnapshot

'''Objective''': RSnapshot is a great application to backup local data, making efficient use of storage as well as CPU resources and can handle a lot of data. A one-click app that includes a UI to set up and manage RSnapshot backups. Also, possibly backup to GDrive, S3, other cloud solutions

'''Skills Required''': RoR, system programming,

'''Mentor''': Rod, Dag

'''References'''
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/rsnapshotbackup/ rsnapshot-backup-php]
* [http://dobrev.ws/projects/webrsnapshot Webrsnapshot]

===Package VoIP and/or PBX system===

'''Description''':

'''Objective''':
'''Skills Required''':

"''Mentors''":

==Mobile==

===iOS Application Improvement===

'''Description''': While Amahi has an iOS application already, there is a lot of room for improvement. For this project, we're looking to improve the existing iOS application and expand it's feature set. We're striving to make Amahi for iOS a polished, fast, and enjoyable application for our users.

'''Objective''': We're looking to improve the the current implementation of the iOS project and add additional features, here is a list of requested features:
*Offer to display image-heavy folders and shares within a "gallery" or collection view.
*Offer the ability to navigate and stream shares containing music in a streamlined way.
*Dynamic search.
*SPDY support, for both remote and local queries.
*Support for accessing HDA web applications within Amahi for iOS.
*Share folders and files from your HDA to other apps or users.
*Support for HDA user permissions (share & web app restrictions, etc.)
*Add support for Dropbox, Google Drive, and other third-party services.
*Improve the first-launch user experience
*Add functionality to assist with HDA setup assistance

'''Skills Required''':
*Objective-C/Cocoa
*Experience programming against a REST API would be helpful (Even input on improving and expanding the API!)

'''Mentors''': Jesse Read, Carlos

'''Reference''': [http://www.amahi.org/ios Amahi for iOS]

===Android Application Implementation===

'''Description''': There's huge demand for an Android application following the popularity of our iOS app. Our users are looking for an application that has feature parity with the existing iOS app, and even shows it up with additional features!

'''Objective''': An Android app that is on par or better than the iOS app, including mobile streaming, downloading files and sharing them.

'''Skills Required''':
*Java Programming
*Experience with the Android Development environment would be helpful
*Experience programming against a REST/JSON API would be helpful

'''Mentor''': Jesse Read, Carlos, Bogdan

== Networking ==

===Clustering Amahi Servers===

'''Description''': Create a system to create data nodes that integrate with the Amahi API as well as auto mount as NFS or SMB shares to allow the usage of applications through locally mounted shares (such as gallery, subsonic etc). This would allow you to connect Windows / Linux computers as data nodes. Perhaps an installable agent?

'''Objective''': An installer that integrates with Amahi (a stripped down version of Amahi?) and a management pane in the main amahi server that allows you to add a server by IP or DNS name.

'''Skills Required''':

'''Mentors''':

===Rolling Distribution===

'''Description''': Make Amahi a rolling distribution

'''Objective''': Being able to upgrade Amahi versions without having to upgrade OSs is very appealing and a huge win.

Make Amahi into a rolling distribution.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Reliability==

===Improve App Stability===
'''Description''': Use containers to improve app stability.

'''Objective''': Use containers like Docker for better app installs an interactions. Better app packaging.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor:''': Carlos

===App Testing===

'''Description''': App reliability is critical for Amahi.

'''Objective''': Bring up a CI server (aka "the grinder") up to speed. Goal is app reliability being 100%. We have

'''Skills Required''': RoR

'''Mentors''': Carlos

===Ubuntu 14.04===

'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Further development on the amahi platform to be able to install the same applications and have the same features as the ubuntu based version.

'''Expected result'''

A new install CD or ruby package that allows you to add amahi functionality to Ubuntu 12.04 or Ubuntu 14.04 (if it is released and LTS)

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

=Other Ideas=

* Integrate a mail server
* Router integration, UPNP, direct control
* Port AES (Amahi Energy Server) to Amahi 7
* Integration of LDAP as a back-end management system, calendaring
* Feature development (examples):
* Calendaring, and integrated contact manager application: possible work-around - owncloud
* For the more design-oriented, build mobile theme(s)

Plus, of course we are open to suggestions. Open a dialog. We're happy to discuss and determine a suitable project.

Amahi is a platform that will support the deployment of other open source applications. If you are interested in the integration of applications in your area of interest, just contact us with suggestions.

= Reference =

* [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 GSOC 2014]
* [http://drupal.org/node/59037 Drupal]
* [http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/SummerOfCode/ApplicationTemplate MySQL]
* [http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2009/Ideas KDE Ideas]

Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-13T04:37:51Z

Jesse Read: /* Mobile App Implementation (Android) */

Are you a GSOC student or mentor? Have questions? Contact us via IRC on [http://talk.amahi.org #amahi on irc.freenode.net] or on the amahi-devel [[mailing list]].

If you are interested in being a mentor, we have six great mentors as of today, but we're very welcoming of more ideas and more mentors!

If you are a student, come talk to us about the ideas below for possible projects! Don't forget that these are subject to suggestions, extensions or adaptations. Even new ideas will be considered. Some of these ideas are more mature and concrete than others.

The '''most important thing''' is to find an '''area that you enjoy''', using a programming language that you know or are willing to learn!

=List of Project Ideas=

== GUI and UX ==

===Better Theme Integration===

'''Description''': Our theme is pretty good, however, it's very customized.

'''Objective''':
* allow the usage of free themes out there, like themes for Drupal, Wordpress, etc.
* allow the integration of mobile themes
* detect mobile devices and present the mobile theme

'''Skills Required''': CSS, HTML5, ruby, RoR

'''Mentors''': Jesse, Carlos

==Installer==

===Improved Installation===

'''Description''': Improved installation, e.g. new Anaconda "node" or some similar thing for Ubuntu

'''Objective''':

'''Skills Required''': Python

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Jesse, Carlos

===User Onboarding===

'''Description''': Help users get their HDA up and running with minimal interaction.

'''Objective''': Happier users. The idea is to implement an automated configuration check tool.The current interactive network troubleshooter can be used as a starting point. The tool should:

* check if the installation was successful
* compare current settings against the expected settings
* automatically fix inconsistencies with no user interaction

'''Skills Required''': RoR, scripting, netflow capture, dhcping scripting

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Carlos

'''References''':
* [http://www.amahi.net Amahi Interactive Troubleshooter]

== Platform ==

===Plugin System===

'''Description''': Make the ability to create and install Amahi plugins easy and enable the creation of those plugins for a variety of purposes, like SMART monitoring, system stuff (network scanning, etc.) and the two examples below for the disk wizard and the Greyhole UI, among other ideas.

'''Objective''': Create an amahi plugin system, where PHP, Python, Node, and other modern webapps can be easily integrated. We can currently do this with some RoR engines, but the mechanism is not robust enough. The plugins system should allow modern web-based apps to be easily integrated with Amahi -- from Node.js apps to Ruby/PHP/Python -- so that users can easily reap the benefits of the onslaught of difficult-to-deploy modern web apps with a single click install.
ProTip: possibly leverage docker containers within Amahi

'''Skills Required''': RoR

'''Mentors''': Carlos, Rod

===Disk Wizard===

'''Description''': Expanding the storage capacity is an important feature of Amahi but as of now it requires advanced (e.g. command line) skills. We want easy disk/partition onboarding.
Also add the ability to be asked to mount USB drives as a share when they're connected & connect external shares from for example a NAS with the plugin system using that wizard.

'''Objective''': Create an amahi plugin that will streamline this process by providing a UI for disk management. The plugin should detect if a new disk was added and it should provide a wizard to create partitions and format with the desired file system

'''Skills Required''': Low level system scripting

'''Mentors''': Dag, Bogdan

'''References''':
* [http://www.openmediavault.org/ OpenMediaVault] does have a nice wizard that people like

===Greyhole UI===

'''Description''': Greyhole is an application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they're connected), and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails. The purpose of this plugin is to provide a UI and the necessary tools under the UI to make starting and managing a Greyhole UI possible and nice to understand for regular humans.

'''Objective''': Create and amahi plugin that provides an UI that allows for the management of the greyhole pool. The plugin should allow an administrator user to:
add/remove disks to/from the pool.
* change the number of copies for individual file/directory
* invoke various gh commands
* view and monitor log files
* gui to visualize data distribution

'''Skills Required''': RoR, System programing

'''Mentors''': Carlos, Rod

===Backup app data/settings===

'''Description''': An drawback of Amahi is that it's hard to backup the installed applications and their user data

'''Objective''': The plugin should allow an administrator to backup any application data either on an external media or in the cloud(e.g.: Dropbox, Google Drive, etc).The restore process should check if the application is installed on the HDA and if not it should be automatically installed from the AppStore before the user data is restored.
*Create an amahi plugin that will allow backup and restore of the user data for apps installed from the AppStore
*Centralising app data/configs - link them to app folder instead.
*"Destructive" update awareness
*Ability to list, outline data directories for backups/upgrade check

'''Skills Required''': System scripting

'''Mentor''': Rod, Daniel

== Apps==

Innovative app packaging or app related projects.

===Caching Server===

'''Description''': a caching proxy to save on bandwidth

'''Objective''': Develop and plugin that will allow an administrator user to control the traffic for specific devices inside the network. This app (or possibly a plugin) should display all the connected device as well as provide the ability to search by name/MAC address. For a selected device the administrator should:
*Limit access between certain time intervals
*Limit bandwidth
*Block certain websites (either on an individual basis or read them from a file)
*Limit traffic

'''Skills Required''': system configuration and scripting

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Jesse

===Network Groups===

'''Description''': Develop a plugin to allow network device grouping. This will be the framework for future plugins.

'''Objective''': Allow an administrator to group network devices in groups with different permissions. Limit the user access to certain apps based on the group settings.

'''Skills Required''': RoR, system programming

'''Mentors''': Jesse, Daniel

===Create UI and package it for RSnapshot===

'''Description''': Make a UI for rsnapshot

'''Objective''': RSnapshot is a great application to backup local data, making efficient use of storage as well as CPU resources and can handle a lot of data. A one-click app that includes a UI to set up and manage RSnapshot backups. Also, possibly backup to GDrive, S3, other cloud solutions

'''Skills Required''': RoR, system programming,

'''Mentor''': Rod, Dag

'''References'''
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/rsnapshotbackup/ rsnapshot-backup-php]
* [http://dobrev.ws/projects/webrsnapshot Webrsnapshot]

===Package VoIP and/or PBX system===

'''Description''':

'''Objective''':
'''Skills Required''':

"''Mentors''":

==Mobile==

===iOS Application Improvement===

'''Description''': While Amahi has an iOS application already, there is a lot of room for improvement. For this project, we're looking to improve the existing iOS application and expand it's feature set. We're striving to make Amahi for iOS a polished, fast, and enjoyable application for our users.

'''Objective''': We're looking to improve the the current implementation of the iOS project and add additional features, here is a list of requested features:
*Offer to display image-heavy folders and shares within a "gallery" or collection view.
*Offer the ability to navigate and stream shares containing music in a streamlined way.
*Dynamic search.
*SPDY support, for both remote and local queries.
*Support for accessing HDA web applications within Amahi for iOS.
*Share folders and files from your HDA to other apps or users.
*Support for HDA user permissions (share & web app restrictions, etc.)
*Add support for Dropbox, Google Drive, and other third-party services.
*Improve the first-launch user experience
*Add functionality to assist with HDA setup assistance

'''Skills Required''':
*Objective-C/Cocoa
*Experience programming against a REST API would be helpful (Even input on improving and expanding the API!)

'''Mentors''': Jesse Read, Carlos

===Android Application Implementation===

'''Description''': There's huge demand for an Android application following the popularity of our iOS app. Our users are looking for an application that has feature parity with the existing iOS app, and even shows it up with additional features!

'''Objective''': An Android app that is on par or better than the iOS app, including mobile streaming, downloading files and sharing them.

'''Skills Required''':
*Java Programming
*Experience with the Android Development environment would be helpful
*Experience programming against a REST/JSON API would be helpful

'''Mentor''': Jesse Read, Carlos, Bogdan

== Networking ==

===Clustering Amahi Servers===

'''Description''': Create a system to create data nodes that integrate with the Amahi API as well as auto mount as NFS or SMB shares to allow the usage of applications through locally mounted shares (such as gallery, subsonic etc). This would allow you to connect Windows / Linux computers as data nodes. Perhaps an installable agent?

'''Objective''': An installer that integrates with Amahi (a stripped down version of Amahi?) and a management pane in the main amahi server that allows you to add a server by IP or DNS name.

'''Skills Required''':

'''Mentors''':

===Rolling Distribution===

'''Description''': Make Amahi a rolling distribution

'''Objective''': Being able to upgrade Amahi versions without having to upgrade OSs is very appealing and a huge win.

Make Amahi into a rolling distribution.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Reliability==

===Improve App Stability===
'''Description''': Use containers to improve app stability.

'''Objective''': Use containers like Docker for better app installs an interactions. Better app packaging.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor:''': Carlos

===App Testing===

'''Description''': App reliability is critical for Amahi.

'''Objective''': Bring up a CI server (aka "the grinder") up to speed. Goal is app reliability being 100%. We have

'''Skills Required''': RoR

'''Mentors''': Carlos

===Ubuntu 14.04===

'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Further development on the amahi platform to be able to install the same applications and have the same features as the ubuntu based version.

'''Expected result'''

A new install CD or ruby package that allows you to add amahi functionality to Ubuntu 12.04 or Ubuntu 14.04 (if it is released and LTS)

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

=Other Ideas=

* Integrate a mail server
* Router integration, UPNP, direct control
* Port AES (Amahi Energy Server) to Amahi 7
* Integration of LDAP as a back-end management system, calendaring
* Feature development (examples):
* Calendaring, and integrated contact manager application: possible work-around - owncloud
* For the more design-oriented, build mobile theme(s)

Plus, of course we are open to suggestions. Open a dialog. We're happy to discuss and determine a suitable project.

Amahi is a platform that will support the deployment of other open source applications. If you are interested in the integration of applications in your area of interest, just contact us with suggestions.

= Reference =

* [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 GSOC 2014]
* [http://drupal.org/node/59037 Drupal]
* [http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/SummerOfCode/ApplicationTemplate MySQL]
* [http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2009/Ideas KDE Ideas]

Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-13T04:37:33Z

Jesse Read: /* Mobile App Implementation (Android) */

Are you a GSOC student or mentor? Have questions? Contact us via IRC on [http://talk.amahi.org #amahi on irc.freenode.net] or on the amahi-devel [[mailing list]].

If you are interested in being a mentor, we have six great mentors as of today, but we're very welcoming of more ideas and more mentors!

If you are a student, come talk to us about the ideas below for possible projects! Don't forget that these are subject to suggestions, extensions or adaptations. Even new ideas will be considered. Some of these ideas are more mature and concrete than others.

The '''most important thing''' is to find an '''area that you enjoy''', using a programming language that you know or are willing to learn!

=List of Project Ideas=

== GUI and UX ==

===Better Theme Integration===

'''Description''': Our theme is pretty good, however, it's very customized.

'''Objective''':
* allow the usage of free themes out there, like themes for Drupal, Wordpress, etc.
* allow the integration of mobile themes
* detect mobile devices and present the mobile theme

'''Skills Required''': CSS, HTML5, ruby, RoR

'''Mentors''': Jesse, Carlos

==Installer==

===Improved Installation===

'''Description''': Improved installation, e.g. new Anaconda "node" or some similar thing for Ubuntu

'''Objective''':

'''Skills Required''': Python

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Jesse, Carlos

===User Onboarding===

'''Description''': Help users get their HDA up and running with minimal interaction.

'''Objective''': Happier users. The idea is to implement an automated configuration check tool.The current interactive network troubleshooter can be used as a starting point. The tool should:

* check if the installation was successful
* compare current settings against the expected settings
* automatically fix inconsistencies with no user interaction

'''Skills Required''': RoR, scripting, netflow capture, dhcping scripting

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Carlos

'''References''':
* [http://www.amahi.net Amahi Interactive Troubleshooter]

== Platform ==

===Plugin System===

'''Description''': Make the ability to create and install Amahi plugins easy and enable the creation of those plugins for a variety of purposes, like SMART monitoring, system stuff (network scanning, etc.) and the two examples below for the disk wizard and the Greyhole UI, among other ideas.

'''Objective''': Create an amahi plugin system, where PHP, Python, Node, and other modern webapps can be easily integrated. We can currently do this with some RoR engines, but the mechanism is not robust enough. The plugins system should allow modern web-based apps to be easily integrated with Amahi -- from Node.js apps to Ruby/PHP/Python -- so that users can easily reap the benefits of the onslaught of difficult-to-deploy modern web apps with a single click install.
ProTip: possibly leverage docker containers within Amahi

'''Skills Required''': RoR

'''Mentors''': Carlos, Rod

===Disk Wizard===

'''Description''': Expanding the storage capacity is an important feature of Amahi but as of now it requires advanced (e.g. command line) skills. We want easy disk/partition onboarding.
Also add the ability to be asked to mount USB drives as a share when they're connected & connect external shares from for example a NAS with the plugin system using that wizard.

'''Objective''': Create an amahi plugin that will streamline this process by providing a UI for disk management. The plugin should detect if a new disk was added and it should provide a wizard to create partitions and format with the desired file system

'''Skills Required''': Low level system scripting

'''Mentors''': Dag, Bogdan

'''References''':
* [http://www.openmediavault.org/ OpenMediaVault] does have a nice wizard that people like

===Greyhole UI===

'''Description''': Greyhole is an application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they're connected), and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails. The purpose of this plugin is to provide a UI and the necessary tools under the UI to make starting and managing a Greyhole UI possible and nice to understand for regular humans.

'''Objective''': Create and amahi plugin that provides an UI that allows for the management of the greyhole pool. The plugin should allow an administrator user to:
add/remove disks to/from the pool.
* change the number of copies for individual file/directory
* invoke various gh commands
* view and monitor log files
* gui to visualize data distribution

'''Skills Required''': RoR, System programing

'''Mentors''': Carlos, Rod

===Backup app data/settings===

'''Description''': An drawback of Amahi is that it's hard to backup the installed applications and their user data

'''Objective''': The plugin should allow an administrator to backup any application data either on an external media or in the cloud(e.g.: Dropbox, Google Drive, etc).The restore process should check if the application is installed on the HDA and if not it should be automatically installed from the AppStore before the user data is restored.
*Create an amahi plugin that will allow backup and restore of the user data for apps installed from the AppStore
*Centralising app data/configs - link them to app folder instead.
*"Destructive" update awareness
*Ability to list, outline data directories for backups/upgrade check

'''Skills Required''': System scripting

'''Mentor''': Rod, Daniel

== Apps==

Innovative app packaging or app related projects.

===Caching Server===

'''Description''': a caching proxy to save on bandwidth

'''Objective''': Develop and plugin that will allow an administrator user to control the traffic for specific devices inside the network. This app (or possibly a plugin) should display all the connected device as well as provide the ability to search by name/MAC address. For a selected device the administrator should:
*Limit access between certain time intervals
*Limit bandwidth
*Block certain websites (either on an individual basis or read them from a file)
*Limit traffic

'''Skills Required''': system configuration and scripting

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Jesse

===Network Groups===

'''Description''': Develop a plugin to allow network device grouping. This will be the framework for future plugins.

'''Objective''': Allow an administrator to group network devices in groups with different permissions. Limit the user access to certain apps based on the group settings.

'''Skills Required''': RoR, system programming

'''Mentors''': Jesse, Daniel

===Create UI and package it for RSnapshot===

'''Description''': Make a UI for rsnapshot

'''Objective''': RSnapshot is a great application to backup local data, making efficient use of storage as well as CPU resources and can handle a lot of data. A one-click app that includes a UI to set up and manage RSnapshot backups. Also, possibly backup to GDrive, S3, other cloud solutions

'''Skills Required''': RoR, system programming,

'''Mentor''': Rod, Dag

'''References'''
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/rsnapshotbackup/ rsnapshot-backup-php]
* [http://dobrev.ws/projects/webrsnapshot Webrsnapshot]

===Package VoIP and/or PBX system===

'''Description''':

'''Objective''':
'''Skills Required''':

"''Mentors''":

==Mobile==

===iOS Application Improvement===

'''Description''': While Amahi has an iOS application already, there is a lot of room for improvement. For this project, we're looking to improve the existing iOS application and expand it's feature set. We're striving to make Amahi for iOS a polished, fast, and enjoyable application for our users.

'''Objective''': We're looking to improve the the current implementation of the iOS project and add additional features, here is a list of requested features:
*Offer to display image-heavy folders and shares within a "gallery" or collection view.
*Offer the ability to navigate and stream shares containing music in a streamlined way.
*Dynamic search.
*SPDY support, for both remote and local queries.
*Support for accessing HDA web applications within Amahi for iOS.
*Share folders and files from your HDA to other apps or users.
*Support for HDA user permissions (share & web app restrictions, etc.)
*Add support for Dropbox, Google Drive, and other third-party services.
*Improve the first-launch user experience
*Add functionality to assist with HDA setup assistance

'''Skills Required''':
*Objective-C/Cocoa
*Experience programming against a REST API would be helpful (Even input on improving and expanding the API!)

'''Mentors''': Jesse Read, Carlos

===Mobile App Implementation (Android)===

'''Description''': There's huge demand for an Android application following the popularity of our iOS app. Our users are looking for an application that has feature parity with the existing iOS app, and even shows it up with additional features!

'''Objective''': An Android app that is on par or better than the iOS app, including mobile streaming, downloading files and sharing them.

'''Skills Required''':
*Java Programming
*Experience with the Android Development environment would be helpful
*Experience programming against a REST/JSON API would be helpful

'''Mentor''': Jesse Read, Carlos, Bogdan

== Networking ==

===Clustering Amahi Servers===

'''Description''': Create a system to create data nodes that integrate with the Amahi API as well as auto mount as NFS or SMB shares to allow the usage of applications through locally mounted shares (such as gallery, subsonic etc). This would allow you to connect Windows / Linux computers as data nodes. Perhaps an installable agent?

'''Objective''': An installer that integrates with Amahi (a stripped down version of Amahi?) and a management pane in the main amahi server that allows you to add a server by IP or DNS name.

'''Skills Required''':

'''Mentors''':

===Rolling Distribution===

'''Description''': Make Amahi a rolling distribution

'''Objective''': Being able to upgrade Amahi versions without having to upgrade OSs is very appealing and a huge win.

Make Amahi into a rolling distribution.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Reliability==

===Improve App Stability===
'''Description''': Use containers to improve app stability.

'''Objective''': Use containers like Docker for better app installs an interactions. Better app packaging.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor:''': Carlos

===App Testing===

'''Description''': App reliability is critical for Amahi.

'''Objective''': Bring up a CI server (aka "the grinder") up to speed. Goal is app reliability being 100%. We have

'''Skills Required''': RoR

'''Mentors''': Carlos

===Ubuntu 14.04===

'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Further development on the amahi platform to be able to install the same applications and have the same features as the ubuntu based version.

'''Expected result'''

A new install CD or ruby package that allows you to add amahi functionality to Ubuntu 12.04 or Ubuntu 14.04 (if it is released and LTS)

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

=Other Ideas=

* Integrate a mail server
* Router integration, UPNP, direct control
* Port AES (Amahi Energy Server) to Amahi 7
* Integration of LDAP as a back-end management system, calendaring
* Feature development (examples):
* Calendaring, and integrated contact manager application: possible work-around - owncloud
* For the more design-oriented, build mobile theme(s)

Plus, of course we are open to suggestions. Open a dialog. We're happy to discuss and determine a suitable project.

Amahi is a platform that will support the deployment of other open source applications. If you are interested in the integration of applications in your area of interest, just contact us with suggestions.

= Reference =

* [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 GSOC 2014]
* [http://drupal.org/node/59037 Drupal]
* [http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/SummerOfCode/ApplicationTemplate MySQL]
* [http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2009/Ideas KDE Ideas]

Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-13T04:34:07Z

Jesse Read: /* Mobile App Awesomization (iOS) */

Are you a GSOC student or mentor? Have questions? Contact us via IRC on [http://talk.amahi.org #amahi on irc.freenode.net] or on the amahi-devel [[mailing list]].

If you are interested in being a mentor, we have six great mentors as of today, but we're very welcoming of more ideas and more mentors!

If you are a student, come talk to us about the ideas below for possible projects! Don't forget that these are subject to suggestions, extensions or adaptations. Even new ideas will be considered. Some of these ideas are more mature and concrete than others.

The '''most important thing''' is to find an '''area that you enjoy''', using a programming language that you know or are willing to learn!

=List of Project Ideas=

== GUI and UX ==

===Better Theme Integration===

'''Description''': Our theme is pretty good, however, it's very customized.

'''Objective''':
* allow the usage of free themes out there, like themes for Drupal, Wordpress, etc.
* allow the integration of mobile themes
* detect mobile devices and present the mobile theme

'''Skills Required''': CSS, HTML5, ruby, RoR

'''Mentors''': Jesse, Carlos

==Installer==

===Improved Installation===

'''Description''': Improved installation, e.g. new Anaconda "node" or some similar thing for Ubuntu

'''Objective''':

'''Skills Required''': Python

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Jesse, Carlos

===User Onboarding===

'''Description''': Help users get their HDA up and running with minimal interaction.

'''Objective''': Happier users. The idea is to implement an automated configuration check tool.The current interactive network troubleshooter can be used as a starting point. The tool should:

* check if the installation was successful
* compare current settings against the expected settings
* automatically fix inconsistencies with no user interaction

'''Skills Required''': RoR, scripting, netflow capture, dhcping scripting

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Carlos

'''References''':
* [http://www.amahi.net Amahi Interactive Troubleshooter]

== Platform ==

===Plugin System===

'''Description''': Make the ability to create and install Amahi plugins easy and enable the creation of those plugins for a variety of purposes, like SMART monitoring, system stuff (network scanning, etc.) and the two examples below for the disk wizard and the Greyhole UI, among other ideas.

'''Objective''': Create an amahi plugin system, where PHP, Python, Node, and other modern webapps can be easily integrated. We can currently do this with some RoR engines, but the mechanism is not robust enough. The plugins system should allow modern web-based apps to be easily integrated with Amahi -- from Node.js apps to Ruby/PHP/Python -- so that users can easily reap the benefits of the onslaught of difficult-to-deploy modern web apps with a single click install.
ProTip: possibly leverage docker containers within Amahi

'''Skills Required''': RoR

'''Mentors''': Carlos, Rod

===Disk Wizard===

'''Description''': Expanding the storage capacity is an important feature of Amahi but as of now it requires advanced (e.g. command line) skills. We want easy disk/partition onboarding.
Also add the ability to be asked to mount USB drives as a share when they're connected & connect external shares from for example a NAS with the plugin system using that wizard.

'''Objective''': Create an amahi plugin that will streamline this process by providing a UI for disk management. The plugin should detect if a new disk was added and it should provide a wizard to create partitions and format with the desired file system

'''Skills Required''': Low level system scripting

'''Mentors''': Dag, Bogdan

'''References''':
* [http://www.openmediavault.org/ OpenMediaVault] does have a nice wizard that people like

===Greyhole UI===

'''Description''': Greyhole is an application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they're connected), and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails. The purpose of this plugin is to provide a UI and the necessary tools under the UI to make starting and managing a Greyhole UI possible and nice to understand for regular humans.

'''Objective''': Create and amahi plugin that provides an UI that allows for the management of the greyhole pool. The plugin should allow an administrator user to:
add/remove disks to/from the pool.
* change the number of copies for individual file/directory
* invoke various gh commands
* view and monitor log files
* gui to visualize data distribution

'''Skills Required''': RoR, System programing

'''Mentors''': Carlos, Rod

===Backup app data/settings===

'''Description''': An drawback of Amahi is that it's hard to backup the installed applications and their user data

'''Objective''': The plugin should allow an administrator to backup any application data either on an external media or in the cloud(e.g.: Dropbox, Google Drive, etc).The restore process should check if the application is installed on the HDA and if not it should be automatically installed from the AppStore before the user data is restored.
*Create an amahi plugin that will allow backup and restore of the user data for apps installed from the AppStore
*Centralising app data/configs - link them to app folder instead.
*"Destructive" update awareness
*Ability to list, outline data directories for backups/upgrade check

'''Skills Required''': System scripting

'''Mentor''': Rod, Daniel

== Apps==

Innovative app packaging or app related projects.

===Caching Server===

'''Description''': a caching proxy to save on bandwidth

'''Objective''': Develop and plugin that will allow an administrator user to control the traffic for specific devices inside the network. This app (or possibly a plugin) should display all the connected device as well as provide the ability to search by name/MAC address. For a selected device the administrator should:
*Limit access between certain time intervals
*Limit bandwidth
*Block certain websites (either on an individual basis or read them from a file)
*Limit traffic

'''Skills Required''': system configuration and scripting

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Jesse

===Network Groups===

'''Description''': Develop a plugin to allow network device grouping. This will be the framework for future plugins.

'''Objective''': Allow an administrator to group network devices in groups with different permissions. Limit the user access to certain apps based on the group settings.

'''Skills Required''': RoR, system programming

'''Mentors''': Jesse, Daniel

===Create UI and package it for RSnapshot===

'''Description''': Make a UI for rsnapshot

'''Objective''': RSnapshot is a great application to backup local data, making efficient use of storage as well as CPU resources and can handle a lot of data. A one-click app that includes a UI to set up and manage RSnapshot backups. Also, possibly backup to GDrive, S3, other cloud solutions

'''Skills Required''': RoR, system programming,

'''Mentor''': Rod, Dag

'''References'''
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/rsnapshotbackup/ rsnapshot-backup-php]
* [http://dobrev.ws/projects/webrsnapshot Webrsnapshot]

===Package VoIP and/or PBX system===

'''Description''':

'''Objective''':
'''Skills Required''':

"''Mentors''":

==Mobile==

===iOS Application Improvement===

'''Description''': While Amahi has an iOS application already, there is a lot of room for improvement. For this project, we're looking to improve the existing iOS application and expand it's feature set. We're striving to make Amahi for iOS a polished, fast, and enjoyable application for our users.

'''Objective''': We're looking to improve the the current implementation of the iOS project and add additional features, here is a list of requested features:
*Offer to display image-heavy folders and shares within a "gallery" or collection view.
*Offer the ability to navigate and stream shares containing music in a streamlined way.
*Dynamic search.
*SPDY support, for both remote and local queries.
*Support for accessing HDA web applications within Amahi for iOS.
*Share folders and files from your HDA to other apps or users.
*Support for HDA user permissions (share & web app restrictions, etc.)
*Add support for Dropbox, Google Drive, and other third-party services.
*Improve the first-launch user experience
*Add functionality to assist with HDA setup assistance

'''Skills Required''':
*Objective-C/Cocoa
*Experience programming against a REST API would be helpful (Even input on improving and expanding the API!)

'''Mentors''': Jesse Read, Carlos

===Mobile App Implementation (Android)===

'''Description''': We have great demand for an Android app thanks to the popularity of our iOS app. Our users want us to make an Amahi Android app to support login, browsing and streaming of Amahi servers.

'''Objective''': An Android app that is on par or better than the iOS app, with mobile streaming, downloading files and sharing them.

'''Skills Required''': Java, Android Stack, REST services, json

'''Mentor''': Jesse, Carlos, Bogdan

== Networking ==

===Clustering Amahi Servers===

'''Description''': Create a system to create data nodes that integrate with the Amahi API as well as auto mount as NFS or SMB shares to allow the usage of applications through locally mounted shares (such as gallery, subsonic etc). This would allow you to connect Windows / Linux computers as data nodes. Perhaps an installable agent?

'''Objective''': An installer that integrates with Amahi (a stripped down version of Amahi?) and a management pane in the main amahi server that allows you to add a server by IP or DNS name.

'''Skills Required''':

'''Mentors''':

===Rolling Distribution===

'''Description''': Make Amahi a rolling distribution

'''Objective''': Being able to upgrade Amahi versions without having to upgrade OSs is very appealing and a huge win.

Make Amahi into a rolling distribution.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Reliability==

===Improve App Stability===
'''Description''': Use containers to improve app stability.

'''Objective''': Use containers like Docker for better app installs an interactions. Better app packaging.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor:''': Carlos

===App Testing===

'''Description''': App reliability is critical for Amahi.

'''Objective''': Bring up a CI server (aka "the grinder") up to speed. Goal is app reliability being 100%. We have

'''Skills Required''': RoR

'''Mentors''': Carlos

===Ubuntu 14.04===

'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Further development on the amahi platform to be able to install the same applications and have the same features as the ubuntu based version.

'''Expected result'''

A new install CD or ruby package that allows you to add amahi functionality to Ubuntu 12.04 or Ubuntu 14.04 (if it is released and LTS)

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

=Other Ideas=

* Integrate a mail server
* Router integration, UPNP, direct control
* Port AES (Amahi Energy Server) to Amahi 7
* Integration of LDAP as a back-end management system, calendaring
* Feature development (examples):
* Calendaring, and integrated contact manager application: possible work-around - owncloud
* For the more design-oriented, build mobile theme(s)

Plus, of course we are open to suggestions. Open a dialog. We're happy to discuss and determine a suitable project.

Amahi is a platform that will support the deployment of other open source applications. If you are interested in the integration of applications in your area of interest, just contact us with suggestions.

= Reference =

* [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 GSOC 2014]
* [http://drupal.org/node/59037 Drupal]
* [http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/SummerOfCode/ApplicationTemplate MySQL]
* [http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2009/Ideas KDE Ideas]

Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-13T02:11:09Z

Jesse Read: /* Caching Server */

Are you a GSOC student or mentor? Have questions? Contact us via IRC on [http://talk.amahi.org #amahi on irc.freenode.net] or on the amahi-devel [[mailing list]].

If you are interested in being a mentor, we have a 6 great mentors as of today, but we're very welcoming of mode ideas and more mentors!

If you are a student, come talk to us about these ideas below for possible projects! Don't forget that these are subject to suggestions, extensions or adaptations. Even new ideas will be considered. Some of these ideas are more mature and concrete than others.

The '''most important thing''' is to find an '''area that you enjoy''', using a programming language that you know or are willing to learn!

=List of Project Ideas=

== GUI and UX ==

===Better Theming===

'''Description''': Our theming is pretty good, however, it's very customized.

'''Objective''': Happier users. The idea is to have an automated configuration. It should test the current network settings against the expected settings. In case of inconsistencies it should offer the user solutions with very little interaction.

'''Skills Required''': RoR, scripting, netflow capture, dhcping scripting

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Carlos

===User Onboarding===

'''Description''': Improved workflow for users to come up with their HDA running

'''Objective''': Happier users. The idea is to have an automated configuration. It should test the current network settings against the expected settings. In case of inconsistencies it should offer the user solutions with very little interaction.

'''Skills Required''': RoR, scripting, netflow capture, dhcping scripting

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Carlos

== Platform ==

===Plugin System===

'''Description''': Make the ability to create and install Amahi plugins easy and enable the creation of those plugins for a variety of purposes, like SMART monitoring, system stuff (network scanning, etc.) and the two examples below for the disk wizard and the Greyhole UI, among other ideas.

'''Objective''': Create an amahi plugin system, where PHP, Python, Node, and other modern webapps can be easily integrated. We can currently do this with some RoR engines, but the mechanism is not robust enough. The plugins system should allow modern web-based apps to be easily integrated with Amahi -- from Node.js apps to Ruby/PHP/Python -- so that users can easily reap the benefits of the onslaught of difficult-to-deploy modern web apps with a single click install.
ProTip: possibly leverage docker containers within Amahi

'''Skills Required''': RoR

'''Mentors''': Carlos, Rod

===Disk Wizard===

'''Description''': Expanding the storage capacity is an important feature of Amahi but as of now it requires advanced (e.g. command line) skills. We want easy disk/partition onboarding.
Also add the ability to be asked to mount USB drives as a share when they're connected & connect external shares from for example a NAS with the plugin system using that wizard.

'''Objective''': Create an amahi plugin that will streamline this process by providing a UI for disk management. The plugin should detect if a new disk was added and it should provide a wizard to create partitions and format with the desired file system

'''Skills Required''': Low level system scripting

'''Mentors''': Dag, Bogdan

'''References''':
* [http://www.openmediavault.org/ OpenMediaVault] does have a nice wizard that people like

===Greyhole UI===

'''Description''': Greyhole is an application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they're connected), and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails. The purpose of this plugin is to provide a UI and the necessary tools under the UI to make starting and managing a Greyhole UI possible and nice to understand for regular humans.

'''Objective''': Create and amahi plugin that provides an UI that allows for the management of the greyhole pool. The plugin should allow an administrator user to:
add/remove disks to/from the pool.
* change the number of copies for individual file/directory
* invoke various gh commands
* view and monitor log files
* gui to visualize data distribution

'''Skills Required''': RoR, System programing

'''Mentors''': Carlos, Rod

===Backup app data/settings===

'''Description''': An drawback of Amahi is that it's hard to backup the installed applications and their user data

'''Objective''': The plugin should allow an administrator to backup any application data either on an external media or in the cloud(e.g.: Dropbox, Google Drive, etc).The restore process should check if the application is installed on the HDA and if not it should be automatically installed from the AppStore before the user data is restored.
*Create an amahi plugin that will allow backup and restore of the user data for apps installed from the AppStore
*Centralising app data/configs - link them to app folder instead.
*"Destructive" update awareness
*Ability to list, outline data directories for backups/upgrade check

'''Skills Required''': System scripting

'''Mentor''': Rod, Daniel

== Apps or App related==

===Caching Server===

'''Description''': a caching proxy to save on bandwidth

'''Objective''': Develop and plugin that will allow an administrator user to control the traffic for specific devices inside the network. This app (or possibly a plugin) should display all the connected device as well as provide the ability to search by name/MAC address. For a selected device the administrator should:
*Limit access between certain time intervals
*Limit bandwidth
*Block certain websites (either on an individual basis or read them from a file)
*Limit traffic

'''Skills Required''': system configuration and scripting

'''Mentors''": Daniel, Jesse Read

===Network Groups===

'''Description''': Develop a plugin to allow network device grouping. This will be the framework for future plugins.

'''Objective''': Allow an administrator to group network devices in groups with different permissions. Limit the user access to certain apps based on the group settings.

'''Skills Required''': RoR, system programming

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Jesse Read

==Mobile==

===Mobile App Awesomization (iOS)===

'''Description''': Take the iOS app to a whole new level of usability and popularity. The goal is to make the mobile really polished and fast, as well as a pleasure to use.

'''Objective''': Add really useful features to the app, like
*algorithmically detect image-heavy folders on the fly and offer to display them as a gallery view
*similarly with on-the-fly music folders
*dynamic search
*SPDY support for all remote accesses (+1 for local)
*support for webapp browsing
*folder sharing
*local user support
*adding support for GDrive, Dropbox
*Mobile user onboarding, and HDA setup assistance

'''Skills Required''': Objective-C/Cocoa

'''Mentors''': Jesse, Carlos

===Mobile App Implementation (Android)===

'''Description''': We have great demand for an Android app thanks to the popularity of our iOS app. Our users want us to make an Amahi Android app to support login, browsing and streaming of Amahi servers.

'''Objective'''

'''Expected result'''

An Android app that can be on par or better than the iOS app, with mobile streaming, downloading files and sharing them.

'''Skills Required'''

Java, Android Stack

'''Mentors''': Jesse Read, Carlos, Bogdan

==Create UI and package it for RSnapshot==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

RSnapshot is a great application to backup local data, making efficient use of storage as well as CPU resources and can handle a lot of data.

'''Expected result'''

A one-click app that includes a UI to set up and manage RSnapshot backups.

Also, possibly backup to GDrive, S3, other cloud solutions

'''Skills Required'''
* RoR, system programming,

'''Mentor'''
* Rod, Dag

'''Reference'''
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/rsnapshotbackup/ rsnapshot-backup-php]
* [http://dobrev.ws/projects/webrsnapshot Webrsnapshot]

==Clustering Amahi servers==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Create a system to create data nodes that integrate with the amahi API as well as auto mount as NFS or SMB shares to allow the usage of applications through locally mounted shares (such as gallery, subsonic etc). This would allow you to connect Windows / Linux computers as data nodes. Perhaps an installable agent?

'''Expected result'''

An installer that integrates with amahi (a stripped down version of Amahi?) and a management pane in the main amahi server that allows you to add a server by IP or DNS name.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Make Amahi a rolling distribution==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Being able to upgrade amahi versions without having to upgrade OSs is very appealing and a huge win.

'''Expected result'''

Make Amahi into a rolling distribution.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Use Containers==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Use containers like Docker for better app installs an interactions

'''Expected result'''

Better app packaging.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==App Testing==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Bring up the grinder up to speed

'''Expected result'''

App reliability goes to 100%.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Ubuntu 14.04==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Further development on the amahi platform to be able to install the same applications and have the same features as the ubuntu based version.

'''Expected result'''

A new install CD or ruby package that allows you to add amahi functionality to Ubuntu 12.04 or Ubuntu 14.04 (if it is released and LTS)

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

=Hard=
* Add support for UPnP control of home routers from within the setup pages, e.g. to easily and dynamically control settings like DHCP server enable/disable, port forwarding, etc.
* Add support for Ubuntu or, in general, debian-based distributions
* Add support for an Android based distribution
* Enhance REST API to support management from other interfaces (eg. Android, iPhone)
* Build Android or iPhone interface to control home server
* Integrate one of the more complex applications, such as
** MythTV back-end
** FUPPES UPnP server (or other UPnP/DLNA server, eg. uShare, mediatomb)
** firewall (Shorewall, moonwall, ...)
** Asterisk
** OpenPBX
* Integration of LDAP as a back-end management system
* Feature development (examples):
** Easily change domain/DHCP settings managed by Amahi
** Use external and internal domain (internet/intranet)
** Change share servers to use a plugin system to allow each share to select which server they use
** Browseable selection of files and paths in dashboard
** Ability to add/mount disks via browser interface
** Seamlessly add drives as an option for share points

=Medium=
* Integrate a mail server
* Enhance the theme engine to handle mainstream templates directly or with minimal configuration (e.g. Drupal, Wordpress, or others)
* Replace BIND as DNS server by a more dynamic, reconfigurable DNS server
* Build an integrated contact manager application

=Easy=
* Improve the theme engine to handle more sophisticated themes
* For the more design-oriented, build new and exciting themes

Plus, of course we are open to suggestions. Open a dialog. We're happy to discuss and determine a suitable project.

For other ideas, review our page on how to [[Contribute]]. Then explore our [http://forums.amahi.org/viewforum.php?f=15 suggestions forum] and our new [http://bugs.amahi.org/ bug tracker] (features suggested).

Amahi is a platform that will support the deployment of other open source applications. If you are interested in the integration of applications in your area of interest, just contact us with suggestions.

= Reference =

* [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 GSOC 2014]
* [http://drupal.org/node/59037 Drupal]
* [http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/SummerOfCode/ApplicationTemplate MySQL]
* [http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2009/Ideas KDE Ideas]

Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-13T02:03:43Z

Jesse Read: /* Mobile App Implementation (Android) */

Are you a GSOC student or mentor? Have questions? Contact us via IRC on [http://talk.amahi.org #amahi on irc.freenode.net] or on the amahi-devel [[mailing list]].

If you are interested in being a mentor, we have a 6 great mentors as of today, but we're very welcoming of mode ideas and more mentors!

If you are a student, come talk to us about these ideas below for possible projects! Don't forget that these are subject to suggestions, extensions or adaptations. Even new ideas will be considered. Some of these ideas are more mature and concrete than others.

The '''most important thing''' is to find an '''area that you enjoy''', using a programming language that you know or are willing to learn!

=List of Project Ideas=

== GUI and UX ==

===Better Theming===

'''Description''': Our theming is pretty good, however, it's very customized.

'''Objective''': Happier users. The idea is to have an automated configuration. It should test the current network settings against the expected settings. In case of inconsistencies it should offer the user solutions with very little interaction.

'''Skills Required''': RoR, scripting, netflow capture, dhcping scripting

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Carlos

===User Onboarding===

'''Description''': Improved workflow for users to come up with their HDA running

'''Objective''': Happier users. The idea is to have an automated configuration. It should test the current network settings against the expected settings. In case of inconsistencies it should offer the user solutions with very little interaction.

'''Skills Required''': RoR, scripting, netflow capture, dhcping scripting

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Carlos

== Platform ==

===Plugin System===

'''Description''': Make the ability to create and install Amahi plugins easy and enable the creation of those plugins for a variety of purposes, like SMART monitoring, system stuff (network scanning, etc.) and the two examples below for the disk wizard and the Greyhole UI, among other ideas.

'''Objective''': Create an amahi plugin system, where PHP, Python, Node, and other modern webapps can be easily integrated. We can currently do this with some RoR engines, but the mechanism is not robust enough. The plugins system should allow modern web-based apps to be easily integrated with Amahi -- from Node.js apps to Ruby/PHP/Python -- so that users can easily reap the benefits of the onslaught of difficult-to-deploy modern web apps with a single click install.
ProTip: possibly leverage docker containers within Amahi

'''Skills Required''': RoR

'''Mentors''': Carlos, Rod

===Disk Wizard===

'''Description''': Expanding the storage capacity is an important feature of Amahi but as of now it requires advanced (e.g. command line) skills. We want easy disk/partition onboarding.
Also add the ability to be asked to mount USB drives as a share when they're connected & connect external shares from for example a NAS with the plugin system using that wizard.

'''Objective''': Create an amahi plugin that will streamline this process by providing a UI for disk management. The plugin should detect if a new disk was added and it should provide a wizard to create partitions and format with the desired file system

'''Skills Required''': Low level system scripting

'''Mentors''': Dag, Bogdan

'''References''':
* [http://www.openmediavault.org/ OpenMediaVault] does have a nice wizard that people like

===Greyhole UI===

'''Description''': Greyhole is an application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they're connected), and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails. The purpose of this plugin is to provide a UI and the necessary tools under the UI to make starting and managing a Greyhole UI possible and nice to understand for regular humans.

'''Objective''': Create and amahi plugin that provides an UI that allows for the management of the greyhole pool. The plugin should allow an administrator user to:
add/remove disks to/from the pool.
* change the number of copies for individual file/directory
* invoke various gh commands
* view and monitor log files
* gui to visualize data distribution

'''Skills Required''': RoR, System programing

'''Mentors''': Carlos, Rod

===Backup app data/settings===

'''Description''': An drawback of Amahi is that it's hard to backup the installed applications and their user data

'''Objective''': The plugin should allow an administrator to backup any application data either on an external media or in the cloud(e.g.: Dropbox, Google Drive, etc).The restore process should check if the application is installed on the HDA and if not it should be automatically installed from the AppStore before the user data is restored.
*Create an amahi plugin that will allow backup and restore of the user data for apps installed from the AppStore
*Centralising app data/configs - link them to app folder instead.
*"Destructive" update awareness
*Ability to list, outline data directories for backups/upgrade check

'''Skills Required''': System scripting

'''Mentor''': Rod, Daniel

== Apps or App related==

===Caching Server===

'''Description''': a caching proxy to save on bandwidth

'''Objective''': Develop and plugin that will allow an administrator user to control the traffic for specific devices inside the network. This app (or possibly a plugin) should display all the connected device as well as provide the ability to search by name/MAC address. For a selected device the administrator should:
*Limit access between certain time intervals
*Limit bandwidth
*Block certain websites (either on an individual basis or read them from a file)
*Limit traffic

'''Skills Required''': system configuration and scripting

'''Mentors''": Daniel, Jesse

===Network Groups===

'''Description''': Develop a plugin to allow network device grouping. This will be the framework for future plugins.

'''Objective''': Allow an administrator to group network devices in groups with different permissions. Limit the user access to certain apps based on the group settings.

'''Skills Required''': RoR, system programming

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Jesse Read

==Mobile==

===Mobile App Awesomization (iOS)===

'''Description''': Take the iOS app to a whole new level of usability and popularity. The goal is to make the mobile really polished and fast, as well as a pleasure to use.

'''Objective''': Add really useful features to the app, like
*algorithmically detect image-heavy folders on the fly and offer to display them as a gallery view
*similarly with on-the-fly music folders
*dynamic search
*SPDY support for all remote accesses (+1 for local)
*support for webapp browsing
*folder sharing
*local user support
*adding support for GDrive, Dropbox
*Mobile user onboarding, and HDA setup assistance

'''Skills Required''': Objective-C/Cocoa

'''Mentors''': Jesse, Carlos

===Mobile App Implementation (Android)===

'''Description''': We have great demand for an Android app thanks to the popularity of our iOS app. Our users want us to make an Amahi Android app to support login, browsing and streaming of Amahi servers.

'''Objective'''

'''Expected result'''

An Android app that can be on par or better than the iOS app, with mobile streaming, downloading files and sharing them.

'''Skills Required'''

Java, Android Stack

'''Mentors''': Jesse Read, Carlos, Bogdan

==Create UI and package it for RSnapshot==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

RSnapshot is a great application to backup local data, making efficient use of storage as well as CPU resources and can handle a lot of data.

'''Expected result'''

A one-click app that includes a UI to set up and manage RSnapshot backups.

Also, possibly backup to GDrive, S3, other cloud solutions

'''Skills Required'''
* RoR, system programming,

'''Mentor'''
* Rod, Dag

'''Reference'''
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/rsnapshotbackup/ rsnapshot-backup-php]
* [http://dobrev.ws/projects/webrsnapshot Webrsnapshot]

==Clustering Amahi servers==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Create a system to create data nodes that integrate with the amahi API as well as auto mount as NFS or SMB shares to allow the usage of applications through locally mounted shares (such as gallery, subsonic etc). This would allow you to connect Windows / Linux computers as data nodes. Perhaps an installable agent?

'''Expected result'''

An installer that integrates with amahi (a stripped down version of Amahi?) and a management pane in the main amahi server that allows you to add a server by IP or DNS name.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Make Amahi a rolling distribution==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Being able to upgrade amahi versions without having to upgrade OSs is very appealing and a huge win.

'''Expected result'''

Make Amahi into a rolling distribution.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Use Containers==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Use containers like Docker for better app installs an interactions

'''Expected result'''

Better app packaging.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==App Testing==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Bring up the grinder up to speed

'''Expected result'''

App reliability goes to 100%.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Ubuntu 14.04==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Further development on the amahi platform to be able to install the same applications and have the same features as the ubuntu based version.

'''Expected result'''

A new install CD or ruby package that allows you to add amahi functionality to Ubuntu 12.04 or Ubuntu 14.04 (if it is released and LTS)

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

=Hard=
* Add support for UPnP control of home routers from within the setup pages, e.g. to easily and dynamically control settings like DHCP server enable/disable, port forwarding, etc.
* Add support for Ubuntu or, in general, debian-based distributions
* Add support for an Android based distribution
* Enhance REST API to support management from other interfaces (eg. Android, iPhone)
* Build Android or iPhone interface to control home server
* Integrate one of the more complex applications, such as
** MythTV back-end
** FUPPES UPnP server (or other UPnP/DLNA server, eg. uShare, mediatomb)
** firewall (Shorewall, moonwall, ...)
** Asterisk
** OpenPBX
* Integration of LDAP as a back-end management system
* Feature development (examples):
** Easily change domain/DHCP settings managed by Amahi
** Use external and internal domain (internet/intranet)
** Change share servers to use a plugin system to allow each share to select which server they use
** Browseable selection of files and paths in dashboard
** Ability to add/mount disks via browser interface
** Seamlessly add drives as an option for share points

=Medium=
* Integrate a mail server
* Enhance the theme engine to handle mainstream templates directly or with minimal configuration (e.g. Drupal, Wordpress, or others)
* Replace BIND as DNS server by a more dynamic, reconfigurable DNS server
* Build an integrated contact manager application

=Easy=
* Improve the theme engine to handle more sophisticated themes
* For the more design-oriented, build new and exciting themes

Plus, of course we are open to suggestions. Open a dialog. We're happy to discuss and determine a suitable project.

For other ideas, review our page on how to [[Contribute]]. Then explore our [http://forums.amahi.org/viewforum.php?f=15 suggestions forum] and our new [http://bugs.amahi.org/ bug tracker] (features suggested).

Amahi is a platform that will support the deployment of other open source applications. If you are interested in the integration of applications in your area of interest, just contact us with suggestions.

= Reference =

* [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 GSOC 2014]
* [http://drupal.org/node/59037 Drupal]
* [http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/SummerOfCode/ApplicationTemplate MySQL]
* [http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2009/Ideas KDE Ideas]

Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-13T02:03:22Z

Jesse Read: /* Network Groups */

Are you a GSOC student or mentor? Have questions? Contact us via IRC on [http://talk.amahi.org #amahi on irc.freenode.net] or on the amahi-devel [[mailing list]].

If you are interested in being a mentor, we have a 6 great mentors as of today, but we're very welcoming of mode ideas and more mentors!

If you are a student, come talk to us about these ideas below for possible projects! Don't forget that these are subject to suggestions, extensions or adaptations. Even new ideas will be considered. Some of these ideas are more mature and concrete than others.

The '''most important thing''' is to find an '''area that you enjoy''', using a programming language that you know or are willing to learn!

=List of Project Ideas=

== GUI and UX ==

===Better Theming===

'''Description''': Our theming is pretty good, however, it's very customized.

'''Objective''': Happier users. The idea is to have an automated configuration. It should test the current network settings against the expected settings. In case of inconsistencies it should offer the user solutions with very little interaction.

'''Skills Required''': RoR, scripting, netflow capture, dhcping scripting

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Carlos

===User Onboarding===

'''Description''': Improved workflow for users to come up with their HDA running

'''Objective''': Happier users. The idea is to have an automated configuration. It should test the current network settings against the expected settings. In case of inconsistencies it should offer the user solutions with very little interaction.

'''Skills Required''': RoR, scripting, netflow capture, dhcping scripting

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Carlos

== Platform ==

===Plugin System===

'''Description''': Make the ability to create and install Amahi plugins easy and enable the creation of those plugins for a variety of purposes, like SMART monitoring, system stuff (network scanning, etc.) and the two examples below for the disk wizard and the Greyhole UI, among other ideas.

'''Objective''': Create an amahi plugin system, where PHP, Python, Node, and other modern webapps can be easily integrated. We can currently do this with some RoR engines, but the mechanism is not robust enough. The plugins system should allow modern web-based apps to be easily integrated with Amahi -- from Node.js apps to Ruby/PHP/Python -- so that users can easily reap the benefits of the onslaught of difficult-to-deploy modern web apps with a single click install.
ProTip: possibly leverage docker containers within Amahi

'''Skills Required''': RoR

'''Mentors''': Carlos, Rod

===Disk Wizard===

'''Description''': Expanding the storage capacity is an important feature of Amahi but as of now it requires advanced (e.g. command line) skills. We want easy disk/partition onboarding.
Also add the ability to be asked to mount USB drives as a share when they're connected & connect external shares from for example a NAS with the plugin system using that wizard.

'''Objective''': Create an amahi plugin that will streamline this process by providing a UI for disk management. The plugin should detect if a new disk was added and it should provide a wizard to create partitions and format with the desired file system

'''Skills Required''': Low level system scripting

'''Mentors''': Dag, Bogdan

'''References''':
* [http://www.openmediavault.org/ OpenMediaVault] does have a nice wizard that people like

===Greyhole UI===

'''Description''': Greyhole is an application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they're connected), and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails. The purpose of this plugin is to provide a UI and the necessary tools under the UI to make starting and managing a Greyhole UI possible and nice to understand for regular humans.

'''Objective''': Create and amahi plugin that provides an UI that allows for the management of the greyhole pool. The plugin should allow an administrator user to:
add/remove disks to/from the pool.
* change the number of copies for individual file/directory
* invoke various gh commands
* view and monitor log files
* gui to visualize data distribution

'''Skills Required''': RoR, System programing

'''Mentors''': Carlos, Rod

===Backup app data/settings===

'''Description''': An drawback of Amahi is that it's hard to backup the installed applications and their user data

'''Objective''': The plugin should allow an administrator to backup any application data either on an external media or in the cloud(e.g.: Dropbox, Google Drive, etc).The restore process should check if the application is installed on the HDA and if not it should be automatically installed from the AppStore before the user data is restored.
*Create an amahi plugin that will allow backup and restore of the user data for apps installed from the AppStore
*Centralising app data/configs - link them to app folder instead.
*"Destructive" update awareness
*Ability to list, outline data directories for backups/upgrade check

'''Skills Required''': System scripting

'''Mentor''': Rod, Daniel

== Apps or App related==

===Caching Server===

'''Description''': a caching proxy to save on bandwidth

'''Objective''': Develop and plugin that will allow an administrator user to control the traffic for specific devices inside the network. This app (or possibly a plugin) should display all the connected device as well as provide the ability to search by name/MAC address. For a selected device the administrator should:
*Limit access between certain time intervals
*Limit bandwidth
*Block certain websites (either on an individual basis or read them from a file)
*Limit traffic

'''Skills Required''': system configuration and scripting

'''Mentors''": Daniel, Jesse

===Network Groups===

'''Description''': Develop a plugin to allow network device grouping. This will be the framework for future plugins.

'''Objective''': Allow an administrator to group network devices in groups with different permissions. Limit the user access to certain apps based on the group settings.

'''Skills Required''': RoR, system programming

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Jesse Read

==Mobile==

===Mobile App Awesomization (iOS)===

'''Description''': Take the iOS app to a whole new level of usability and popularity. The goal is to make the mobile really polished and fast, as well as a pleasure to use.

'''Objective''': Add really useful features to the app, like
*algorithmically detect image-heavy folders on the fly and offer to display them as a gallery view
*similarly with on-the-fly music folders
*dynamic search
*SPDY support for all remote accesses (+1 for local)
*support for webapp browsing
*folder sharing
*local user support
*adding support for GDrive, Dropbox
*Mobile user onboarding, and HDA setup assistance

'''Skills Required''': Objective-C/Cocoa

'''Mentors''': Jesse, Carlos

===Mobile App Implementation (Android)===

'''Description''': We have great demand for an Android app thanks to the popularity of our iOS app. Our users want us to make an Amahi Android app to support login, browsing and streaming of Amahi servers.

'''Objective'''

'''Expected result'''

An Android app that can be on par or better than the iOS app, with mobile streaming, downloading files and sharing them.

'''Skills Required'''

Java, Android Stack

'''Mentor'''

Jesse, Carlos, Bogdan

==Create UI and package it for RSnapshot==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

RSnapshot is a great application to backup local data, making efficient use of storage as well as CPU resources and can handle a lot of data.

'''Expected result'''

A one-click app that includes a UI to set up and manage RSnapshot backups.

Also, possibly backup to GDrive, S3, other cloud solutions

'''Skills Required'''
* RoR, system programming,

'''Mentor'''
* Rod, Dag

'''Reference'''
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/rsnapshotbackup/ rsnapshot-backup-php]
* [http://dobrev.ws/projects/webrsnapshot Webrsnapshot]

==Clustering Amahi servers==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Create a system to create data nodes that integrate with the amahi API as well as auto mount as NFS or SMB shares to allow the usage of applications through locally mounted shares (such as gallery, subsonic etc). This would allow you to connect Windows / Linux computers as data nodes. Perhaps an installable agent?

'''Expected result'''

An installer that integrates with amahi (a stripped down version of Amahi?) and a management pane in the main amahi server that allows you to add a server by IP or DNS name.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Make Amahi a rolling distribution==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Being able to upgrade amahi versions without having to upgrade OSs is very appealing and a huge win.

'''Expected result'''

Make Amahi into a rolling distribution.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Use Containers==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Use containers like Docker for better app installs an interactions

'''Expected result'''

Better app packaging.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==App Testing==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Bring up the grinder up to speed

'''Expected result'''

App reliability goes to 100%.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Ubuntu 14.04==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Further development on the amahi platform to be able to install the same applications and have the same features as the ubuntu based version.

'''Expected result'''

A new install CD or ruby package that allows you to add amahi functionality to Ubuntu 12.04 or Ubuntu 14.04 (if it is released and LTS)

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

=Hard=
* Add support for UPnP control of home routers from within the setup pages, e.g. to easily and dynamically control settings like DHCP server enable/disable, port forwarding, etc.
* Add support for Ubuntu or, in general, debian-based distributions
* Add support for an Android based distribution
* Enhance REST API to support management from other interfaces (eg. Android, iPhone)
* Build Android or iPhone interface to control home server
* Integrate one of the more complex applications, such as
** MythTV back-end
** FUPPES UPnP server (or other UPnP/DLNA server, eg. uShare, mediatomb)
** firewall (Shorewall, moonwall, ...)
** Asterisk
** OpenPBX
* Integration of LDAP as a back-end management system
* Feature development (examples):
** Easily change domain/DHCP settings managed by Amahi
** Use external and internal domain (internet/intranet)
** Change share servers to use a plugin system to allow each share to select which server they use
** Browseable selection of files and paths in dashboard
** Ability to add/mount disks via browser interface
** Seamlessly add drives as an option for share points

=Medium=
* Integrate a mail server
* Enhance the theme engine to handle mainstream templates directly or with minimal configuration (e.g. Drupal, Wordpress, or others)
* Replace BIND as DNS server by a more dynamic, reconfigurable DNS server
* Build an integrated contact manager application

=Easy=
* Improve the theme engine to handle more sophisticated themes
* For the more design-oriented, build new and exciting themes

Plus, of course we are open to suggestions. Open a dialog. We're happy to discuss and determine a suitable project.

For other ideas, review our page on how to [[Contribute]]. Then explore our [http://forums.amahi.org/viewforum.php?f=15 suggestions forum] and our new [http://bugs.amahi.org/ bug tracker] (features suggested).

Amahi is a platform that will support the deployment of other open source applications. If you are interested in the integration of applications in your area of interest, just contact us with suggestions.

= Reference =

* [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 GSOC 2014]
* [http://drupal.org/node/59037 Drupal]
* [http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/SummerOfCode/ApplicationTemplate MySQL]
* [http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2009/Ideas KDE Ideas]

Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-13T02:02:47Z

Jesse Read: /* Network Groups */

Are you a GSOC student or mentor? Have questions? Contact us via IRC on [http://talk.amahi.org #amahi on irc.freenode.net] or on the amahi-devel [[mailing list]].

If you are interested in being a mentor, we have a 6 great mentors as of today, but we're very welcoming of mode ideas and more mentors!

If you are a student, come talk to us about these ideas below for possible projects! Don't forget that these are subject to suggestions, extensions or adaptations. Even new ideas will be considered. Some of these ideas are more mature and concrete than others.

The '''most important thing''' is to find an '''area that you enjoy''', using a programming language that you know or are willing to learn!

=List of Project Ideas=

== GUI and UX ==

===Better Theming===

'''Description''': Our theming is pretty good, however, it's very customized.

'''Objective''': Happier users. The idea is to have an automated configuration. It should test the current network settings against the expected settings. In case of inconsistencies it should offer the user solutions with very little interaction.

'''Skills Required''': RoR, scripting, netflow capture, dhcping scripting

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Carlos

===User Onboarding===

'''Description''': Improved workflow for users to come up with their HDA running

'''Objective''': Happier users. The idea is to have an automated configuration. It should test the current network settings against the expected settings. In case of inconsistencies it should offer the user solutions with very little interaction.

'''Skills Required''': RoR, scripting, netflow capture, dhcping scripting

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Carlos

== Platform ==

===Plugin System===

'''Description''': Make the ability to create and install Amahi plugins easy and enable the creation of those plugins for a variety of purposes, like SMART monitoring, system stuff (network scanning, etc.) and the two examples below for the disk wizard and the Greyhole UI, among other ideas.

'''Objective''': Create an amahi plugin system, where PHP, Python, Node, and other modern webapps can be easily integrated. We can currently do this with some RoR engines, but the mechanism is not robust enough. The plugins system should allow modern web-based apps to be easily integrated with Amahi -- from Node.js apps to Ruby/PHP/Python -- so that users can easily reap the benefits of the onslaught of difficult-to-deploy modern web apps with a single click install.
ProTip: possibly leverage docker containers within Amahi

'''Skills Required''': RoR

'''Mentors''': Carlos, Rod

===Disk Wizard===

'''Description''': Expanding the storage capacity is an important feature of Amahi but as of now it requires advanced (e.g. command line) skills. We want easy disk/partition onboarding.
Also add the ability to be asked to mount USB drives as a share when they're connected & connect external shares from for example a NAS with the plugin system using that wizard.

'''Objective''': Create an amahi plugin that will streamline this process by providing a UI for disk management. The plugin should detect if a new disk was added and it should provide a wizard to create partitions and format with the desired file system

'''Skills Required''': Low level system scripting

'''Mentors''': Dag, Bogdan

'''References''':
* [http://www.openmediavault.org/ OpenMediaVault] does have a nice wizard that people like

===Greyhole UI===

'''Description''': Greyhole is an application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they're connected), and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails. The purpose of this plugin is to provide a UI and the necessary tools under the UI to make starting and managing a Greyhole UI possible and nice to understand for regular humans.

'''Objective''': Create and amahi plugin that provides an UI that allows for the management of the greyhole pool. The plugin should allow an administrator user to:
add/remove disks to/from the pool.
* change the number of copies for individual file/directory
* invoke various gh commands
* view and monitor log files
* gui to visualize data distribution

'''Skills Required''': RoR, System programing

'''Mentors''': Carlos, Rod

===Backup app data/settings===

'''Description''': An drawback of Amahi is that it's hard to backup the installed applications and their user data

'''Objective''': The plugin should allow an administrator to backup any application data either on an external media or in the cloud(e.g.: Dropbox, Google Drive, etc).The restore process should check if the application is installed on the HDA and if not it should be automatically installed from the AppStore before the user data is restored.
*Create an amahi plugin that will allow backup and restore of the user data for apps installed from the AppStore
*Centralising app data/configs - link them to app folder instead.
*"Destructive" update awareness
*Ability to list, outline data directories for backups/upgrade check

'''Skills Required''': System scripting

'''Mentor''': Rod, Daniel

== Apps or App related==

===Caching Server===

'''Description''': a caching proxy to save on bandwidth

'''Objective''': Develop and plugin that will allow an administrator user to control the traffic for specific devices inside the network. This app (or possibly a plugin) should display all the connected device as well as provide the ability to search by name/MAC address. For a selected device the administrator should:
*Limit access between certain time intervals
*Limit bandwidth
*Block certain websites (either on an individual basis or read them from a file)
*Limit traffic

'''Skills Required''': system configuration and scripting

'''Mentors''": Daniel, Jesse

===Network Groups===

'''Description''': Develop a plugin to allow network device grouping. This will be the framework for future plugins.

'''Objective''': Allow an administrator to group network devices in groups with different permissions. Limit the user access to certain apps based on the group settings.

'''Skills Required''': RoR, system programming

'''Mentors''": Daniel, Jesse Read

==Mobile==

===Mobile App Awesomization (iOS)===

'''Description''': Take the iOS app to a whole new level of usability and popularity. The goal is to make the mobile really polished and fast, as well as a pleasure to use.

'''Objective''': Add really useful features to the app, like
*algorithmically detect image-heavy folders on the fly and offer to display them as a gallery view
*similarly with on-the-fly music folders
*dynamic search
*SPDY support for all remote accesses (+1 for local)
*support for webapp browsing
*folder sharing
*local user support
*adding support for GDrive, Dropbox
*Mobile user onboarding, and HDA setup assistance

'''Skills Required''': Objective-C/Cocoa

'''Mentors''': Jesse, Carlos

===Mobile App Implementation (Android)===

'''Description''': We have great demand for an Android app thanks to the popularity of our iOS app. Our users want us to make an Amahi Android app to support login, browsing and streaming of Amahi servers.

'''Objective'''

'''Expected result'''

An Android app that can be on par or better than the iOS app, with mobile streaming, downloading files and sharing them.

'''Skills Required'''

Java, Android Stack

'''Mentor'''

Jesse, Carlos, Bogdan

==Create UI and package it for RSnapshot==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

RSnapshot is a great application to backup local data, making efficient use of storage as well as CPU resources and can handle a lot of data.

'''Expected result'''

A one-click app that includes a UI to set up and manage RSnapshot backups.

Also, possibly backup to GDrive, S3, other cloud solutions

'''Skills Required'''
* RoR, system programming,

'''Mentor'''
* Rod, Dag

'''Reference'''
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/rsnapshotbackup/ rsnapshot-backup-php]
* [http://dobrev.ws/projects/webrsnapshot Webrsnapshot]

==Clustering Amahi servers==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Create a system to create data nodes that integrate with the amahi API as well as auto mount as NFS or SMB shares to allow the usage of applications through locally mounted shares (such as gallery, subsonic etc). This would allow you to connect Windows / Linux computers as data nodes. Perhaps an installable agent?

'''Expected result'''

An installer that integrates with amahi (a stripped down version of Amahi?) and a management pane in the main amahi server that allows you to add a server by IP or DNS name.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Make Amahi a rolling distribution==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Being able to upgrade amahi versions without having to upgrade OSs is very appealing and a huge win.

'''Expected result'''

Make Amahi into a rolling distribution.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Use Containers==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Use containers like Docker for better app installs an interactions

'''Expected result'''

Better app packaging.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==App Testing==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Bring up the grinder up to speed

'''Expected result'''

App reliability goes to 100%.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Ubuntu 14.04==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Further development on the amahi platform to be able to install the same applications and have the same features as the ubuntu based version.

'''Expected result'''

A new install CD or ruby package that allows you to add amahi functionality to Ubuntu 12.04 or Ubuntu 14.04 (if it is released and LTS)

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

=Hard=
* Add support for UPnP control of home routers from within the setup pages, e.g. to easily and dynamically control settings like DHCP server enable/disable, port forwarding, etc.
* Add support for Ubuntu or, in general, debian-based distributions
* Add support for an Android based distribution
* Enhance REST API to support management from other interfaces (eg. Android, iPhone)
* Build Android or iPhone interface to control home server
* Integrate one of the more complex applications, such as
** MythTV back-end
** FUPPES UPnP server (or other UPnP/DLNA server, eg. uShare, mediatomb)
** firewall (Shorewall, moonwall, ...)
** Asterisk
** OpenPBX
* Integration of LDAP as a back-end management system
* Feature development (examples):
** Easily change domain/DHCP settings managed by Amahi
** Use external and internal domain (internet/intranet)
** Change share servers to use a plugin system to allow each share to select which server they use
** Browseable selection of files and paths in dashboard
** Ability to add/mount disks via browser interface
** Seamlessly add drives as an option for share points

=Medium=
* Integrate a mail server
* Enhance the theme engine to handle mainstream templates directly or with minimal configuration (e.g. Drupal, Wordpress, or others)
* Replace BIND as DNS server by a more dynamic, reconfigurable DNS server
* Build an integrated contact manager application

=Easy=
* Improve the theme engine to handle more sophisticated themes
* For the more design-oriented, build new and exciting themes

Plus, of course we are open to suggestions. Open a dialog. We're happy to discuss and determine a suitable project.

For other ideas, review our page on how to [[Contribute]]. Then explore our [http://forums.amahi.org/viewforum.php?f=15 suggestions forum] and our new [http://bugs.amahi.org/ bug tracker] (features suggested).

Amahi is a platform that will support the deployment of other open source applications. If you are interested in the integration of applications in your area of interest, just contact us with suggestions.

= Reference =

* [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 GSOC 2014]
* [http://drupal.org/node/59037 Drupal]
* [http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/SummerOfCode/ApplicationTemplate MySQL]
* [http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2009/Ideas KDE Ideas]

Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-13T02:01:44Z

Jesse Read: /* Easy */

Are you a GSOC student or mentor? Have questions? Contact us via IRC on [http://talk.amahi.org #amahi on irc.freenode.net] or on the amahi-devel [[mailing list]].

If you are interested in being a mentor, we have a 6 great mentors as of today, but we're very welcoming of mode ideas and more mentors!

If you are a student, come talk to us about these ideas below for possible projects! Don't forget that these are subject to suggestions, extensions or adaptations. Even new ideas will be considered. Some of these ideas are more mature and concrete than others.

The '''most important thing''' is to find an '''area that you enjoy''', using a programming language that you know or are willing to learn!

=List of Project Ideas=

== GUI and UX ==

===Better Theming===

'''Description''': Our theming is pretty good, however, it's very customized.

'''Objective''': Happier users. The idea is to have an automated configuration. It should test the current network settings against the expected settings. In case of inconsistencies it should offer the user solutions with very little interaction.

'''Skills Required''': RoR, scripting, netflow capture, dhcping scripting

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Carlos

===User Onboarding===

'''Description''': Improved workflow for users to come up with their HDA running

'''Objective''': Happier users. The idea is to have an automated configuration. It should test the current network settings against the expected settings. In case of inconsistencies it should offer the user solutions with very little interaction.

'''Skills Required''': RoR, scripting, netflow capture, dhcping scripting

'''Mentors''': Daniel, Carlos

== Platform ==

===Plugin System===

'''Description''': Make the ability to create and install Amahi plugins easy and enable the creation of those plugins for a variety of purposes, like SMART monitoring, system stuff (network scanning, etc.) and the two examples below for the disk wizard and the Greyhole UI, among other ideas.

'''Objective''': Create an amahi plugin system, where PHP, Python, Node, and other modern webapps can be easily integrated. We can currently do this with some RoR engines, but the mechanism is not robust enough. The plugins system should allow modern web-based apps to be easily integrated with Amahi -- from Node.js apps to Ruby/PHP/Python -- so that users can easily reap the benefits of the onslaught of difficult-to-deploy modern web apps with a single click install.
ProTip: possibly leverage docker containers within Amahi

'''Skills Required''': RoR

'''Mentors''': Carlos, Rod

===Disk Wizard===

'''Description''': Expanding the storage capacity is an important feature of Amahi but as of now it requires advanced (e.g. command line) skills. We want easy disk/partition onboarding.
Also add the ability to be asked to mount USB drives as a share when they're connected & connect external shares from for example a NAS with the plugin system using that wizard.

'''Objective''': Create an amahi plugin that will streamline this process by providing a UI for disk management. The plugin should detect if a new disk was added and it should provide a wizard to create partitions and format with the desired file system

'''Skills Required''': Low level system scripting

'''Mentors''': Dag, Bogdan

'''References''':
* [http://www.openmediavault.org/ OpenMediaVault] does have a nice wizard that people like

===Greyhole UI===

'''Description''': Greyhole is an application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they're connected), and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails. The purpose of this plugin is to provide a UI and the necessary tools under the UI to make starting and managing a Greyhole UI possible and nice to understand for regular humans.

'''Objective''': Create and amahi plugin that provides an UI that allows for the management of the greyhole pool. The plugin should allow an administrator user to:
add/remove disks to/from the pool.
* change the number of copies for individual file/directory
* invoke various gh commands
* view and monitor log files
* gui to visualize data distribution

'''Skills Required''': RoR, System programing

'''Mentors''': Carlos, Rod

===Backup app data/settings===

'''Description''': An drawback of Amahi is that it's hard to backup the installed applications and their user data

'''Objective''': The plugin should allow an administrator to backup any application data either on an external media or in the cloud(e.g.: Dropbox, Google Drive, etc).The restore process should check if the application is installed on the HDA and if not it should be automatically installed from the AppStore before the user data is restored.
*Create an amahi plugin that will allow backup and restore of the user data for apps installed from the AppStore
*Centralising app data/configs - link them to app folder instead.
*"Destructive" update awareness
*Ability to list, outline data directories for backups/upgrade check

'''Skills Required''': System scripting

'''Mentor''': Rod, Daniel

== Apps or App related==

===Caching Server===

'''Description''': a caching proxy to save on bandwidth

'''Objective''': Develop and plugin that will allow an administrator user to control the traffic for specific devices inside the network. This app (or possibly a plugin) should display all the connected device as well as provide the ability to search by name/MAC address. For a selected device the administrator should:
*Limit access between certain time intervals
*Limit bandwidth
*Block certain websites (either on an individual basis or read them from a file)
*Limit traffic

'''Skills Required''': system configuration and scripting

'''Mentors''": Daniel, Jesse

===Network Groups===

'''Description''': Develop a plugin to allow network device grouping. This will be the framework for future plugins.

'''Objective''': Allow an administrator to group network devices in groups with different permissions. Limit the user access to certain apps based on the group settings.

'''Skills Required''': RoR, system programming

'''Mentors''': Jesse, Daniel

==Mobile==

===Mobile App Awesomization (iOS)===

'''Description''': Take the iOS app to a whole new level of usability and popularity. The goal is to make the mobile really polished and fast, as well as a pleasure to use.

'''Objective''': Add really useful features to the app, like
*algorithmically detect image-heavy folders on the fly and offer to display them as a gallery view
*similarly with on-the-fly music folders
*dynamic search
*SPDY support for all remote accesses (+1 for local)
*support for webapp browsing
*folder sharing
*local user support
*adding support for GDrive, Dropbox
*Mobile user onboarding, and HDA setup assistance

'''Skills Required''': Objective-C/Cocoa

'''Mentors''': Jesse, Carlos

===Mobile App Implementation (Android)===

'''Description''': We have great demand for an Android app thanks to the popularity of our iOS app. Our users want us to make an Amahi Android app to support login, browsing and streaming of Amahi servers.

'''Objective'''

'''Expected result'''

An Android app that can be on par or better than the iOS app, with mobile streaming, downloading files and sharing them.

'''Skills Required'''

Java, Android Stack

'''Mentor'''

Jesse, Carlos, Bogdan

==Create UI and package it for RSnapshot==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

RSnapshot is a great application to backup local data, making efficient use of storage as well as CPU resources and can handle a lot of data.

'''Expected result'''

A one-click app that includes a UI to set up and manage RSnapshot backups.

Also, possibly backup to GDrive, S3, other cloud solutions

'''Skills Required'''
* RoR, system programming,

'''Mentor'''
* Rod, Dag

'''Reference'''
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/rsnapshotbackup/ rsnapshot-backup-php]
* [http://dobrev.ws/projects/webrsnapshot Webrsnapshot]

==Clustering Amahi servers==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Create a system to create data nodes that integrate with the amahi API as well as auto mount as NFS or SMB shares to allow the usage of applications through locally mounted shares (such as gallery, subsonic etc). This would allow you to connect Windows / Linux computers as data nodes. Perhaps an installable agent?

'''Expected result'''

An installer that integrates with amahi (a stripped down version of Amahi?) and a management pane in the main amahi server that allows you to add a server by IP or DNS name.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Make Amahi a rolling distribution==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Being able to upgrade amahi versions without having to upgrade OSs is very appealing and a huge win.

'''Expected result'''

Make Amahi into a rolling distribution.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Use Containers==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Use containers like Docker for better app installs an interactions

'''Expected result'''

Better app packaging.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==App Testing==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Bring up the grinder up to speed

'''Expected result'''

App reliability goes to 100%.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Ubuntu 14.04==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Further development on the amahi platform to be able to install the same applications and have the same features as the ubuntu based version.

'''Expected result'''

A new install CD or ruby package that allows you to add amahi functionality to Ubuntu 12.04 or Ubuntu 14.04 (if it is released and LTS)

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

=Hard=
* Add support for UPnP control of home routers from within the setup pages, e.g. to easily and dynamically control settings like DHCP server enable/disable, port forwarding, etc.
* Add support for Ubuntu or, in general, debian-based distributions
* Add support for an Android based distribution
* Enhance REST API to support management from other interfaces (eg. Android, iPhone)
* Build Android or iPhone interface to control home server
* Integrate one of the more complex applications, such as
** MythTV back-end
** FUPPES UPnP server (or other UPnP/DLNA server, eg. uShare, mediatomb)
** firewall (Shorewall, moonwall, ...)
** Asterisk
** OpenPBX
* Integration of LDAP as a back-end management system
* Feature development (examples):
** Easily change domain/DHCP settings managed by Amahi
** Use external and internal domain (internet/intranet)
** Change share servers to use a plugin system to allow each share to select which server they use
** Browseable selection of files and paths in dashboard
** Ability to add/mount disks via browser interface
** Seamlessly add drives as an option for share points

=Medium=
* Integrate a mail server
* Enhance the theme engine to handle mainstream templates directly or with minimal configuration (e.g. Drupal, Wordpress, or others)
* Replace BIND as DNS server by a more dynamic, reconfigurable DNS server
* Build an integrated contact manager application

=Easy=
* Improve the theme engine to handle more sophisticated themes
* For the more design-oriented, build new and exciting themes

Plus, of course we are open to suggestions. Open a dialog. We're happy to discuss and determine a suitable project.

For other ideas, review our page on how to [[Contribute]]. Then explore our [http://forums.amahi.org/viewforum.php?f=15 suggestions forum] and our new [http://bugs.amahi.org/ bug tracker] (features suggested).

Amahi is a platform that will support the deployment of other open source applications. If you are interested in the integration of applications in your area of interest, just contact us with suggestions.

= Reference =

* [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 GSOC 2014]
* [http://drupal.org/node/59037 Drupal]
* [http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/SummerOfCode/ApplicationTemplate MySQL]
* [http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2009/Ideas KDE Ideas]

Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-11T03:15:16Z

Jesse Read: /* Backup app data/settings */

Here's a sample of ideas for the 2014 GSOC application for Amahi.

This list is old and it's about to be updated for 2014.

=Critical=
=Important=
=Enhancement=
=To be Organized=
==Plugin System==
'''Description'''

Make the ability to create and install Amahi plugins easy and enable the creation of those plugins for a variety of purposes, like SMART monitoring, system stuff (network scanning, etc.) and the two examples below for the disk wizard and the Greyhole UI, among other ideas.

'''Objective'''

Create an amahi plugin system, where PHP, Python, Node, and other modern webapps can be easily integrated. We can currently do this with some RoR engines, but the mechanism is not robust enough.

'''Expected result'''

The plugins system should allow modern web-based apps to be easily integrated with Amahi -- from Node.js apps to Ruby/PHP/Python -- so that users can easily reap the benefits of the onslaught of difficult-to-deploy modern web apps with a single click install.
ProTip: possibly leverage docker containers within Amahi

'''Skills Required'''
* RoR
'''Mentor'''

==Disk Wizard==
'''Description'''

Expanding the storage capacity is an important feature of Amahi but as of now it requires advanced (e.g. command line) skills. We want easy disk/partition onboarding.

'''Objective'''

Create an amahi plugin that will streamline this process by providing a UI for disk management

'''Expected result'''

The plugins should detect if a new disk was added and it should provide a wizard to create partitions and format with the desired file system

'''Skills Required'''
* Low level system scripting

'''Mentor'''

* Dag, Bogdan

'''References'''<br />
* [http://www.openmediavault.org/ OpenMediaVault]

==Greyhole UI==
'''Description'''

Greyhole is an application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they're connected), and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails.

'''Objective'''

Create and amahi plugin that provides an UI that allows for the management of the greyhole pool.

'''Expected result'''

The plugin should allow an administrator user to:
add/remove disks to/from the pool.
*change the number of copies for individual file/directory
*invoke various gh commands
*view and monitor log files
*gui to visualize data distribution

'''Skills Required'''
* RoR, System programing

'''Mentor'''

==User Onboarding==
'''Description'''

Improved workflow for users to come up with their HDA running

'''Objective'''
Happier users

'''Expected result'''
Have an automated unit test. It should test the current network settings against the expected settings.
In case of inconsistencies it should offer the user solutions with very little interaction.

'''Skills Required'''
* RoR, scripting, netflow capture, dhcping scripting

'''Mentor'''
* Daniel, Carlos

==Backup app data/settings==
'''Description'''

An important drawback of Amahi is the inability to backup the installed applications and their user data

'''Objective'''

*Create an amahi plugin that will allow backup and restore of the user data for apps installed from the AppStore
*Centralising app data/configs - link them to app folder instead.
*"Destructive" update awareness
*Ability to list, outline data directories for backups/upgrade check

'''Expected result'''

The plugin should allow an administrator to backup any application data either on an external media or in the cloud(e.g.: Dropbox, Google Drive, etc).The restore process should check if the application is installed on the HDA and if not it should be automatically installed from the AppStore before the user data is restored.

'''Skills Required'''
* System scripting

'''Mentor'''
* Rod

==Caching Server==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Develop and plugin that will allow an administrator user to control the traffic for specific devices inside the network

'''Expected result'''

The plugin should display all the connected device as well as provide the ability to search by name/MAC address. For a selected device the administrator should:
*Limit access between certain time intervals
*Limit bandwidth
*Block certain websites (either on an individual basis or read them from a file)
*Limit traffic

'''Skills Required'''
* Squid

'''Mentor'''
* Carlos, Daniel, Jesse

==Network Groups==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''
Develop a plugin to allow network device grouping. This will be the framework for future plugins.

'''Expected result'''
Allow an administrator to group network devices in groups with different permissions.
Limit the user access to certain apps based on the group settings.
'''Skills Required'''
* RoR, system programming

'''Mentor'''
* Jesse, Daniel

==Mobile App Awesomization (iOS)==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Take the iOS app to a whole new level of usability and popularity by adding really useful features, like
*algorithmically detect image-heavy folders on the fly and offer to display them as a gallery view
*similarly with on-the-fly music folders
*dynamic search
*SPDY support for all remote accesses (+1 for local)
*support for webapp browsing
*folder sharing
*local user support
*adding support for GDrive, Dropbox
*Mobile user onboarding, and HDA setup assistance

'''Expected result'''

The mobile app will become really polished and fast, as well as a pleasure to use.

'''Skills Required'''

Objective-C/Cocoa

'''Mentor'''

Jesse, Carlos

==Mobile App Implementation (Android)==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

We have great demand for an Android app thanks to the popularity of our iOS app. Our users want us to make an Amahi Android app to support login, browsing and streaming of Amahi servers.

'''Expected result'''

An Android app that can be on par or better than the iOS app, with mobile streaming, downloading files and sharing them.

'''Skills Required'''

Java, Android Stack

'''Mentor'''

Jesse, Carlos

==Create UI and package it for RSnapshot==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

RSnapshot is a great application to backup local data, making efficient use of storage as well as CPU resources and can handle a lot of data.

'''Expected result'''

A one-click app that includes a UI to set up and manage RSnapshot backups.

Also, possibly backup to GDrive, S3, other cloud solutions

'''Skills Required'''
* RoR, system programming,

'''Mentor'''
* Rod, Dag

==Data nodes that integrate with main amahi server==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Create a system to create data nodes that integrate with the amahi API as well as auto mount as NFS or SMB shares to allow the usage of applications through locally mounted shares (such as gallery, subsonic etc). This would allow you to connect Windows / Linux computers as data nodes. Perhaps an installable agent?

'''Expected result'''

An installer that integrates with amahi (a stripped down version of Amahi?) and a management pane in the main amahi server that allows you to add a server by IP or DNS name.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Ubuntu 12.04 Amahi Development==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Further development on the amahi platform to be able to install the same applications and have the same features as the ubuntu based version.

'''Expected result'''

A new install CD or ruby package that allows you to add amahi functionality to Ubuntu 12.04 or Ubuntu 14.04 (if it is released and LTS)

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Make Amahi a rolling distribution==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Being able to upgrade amahi versions without having to upgrade OSs is very appealing and a huge win.

'''Expected result'''

Make Amahi into a rolling distribution.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Use Containers==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Use containers like Docker for better app installs an interactions

'''Expected result'''

Better app packaging.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==App Testing==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Bring up the grinder up to speed

'''Expected result'''

App reliability goes to 100%.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

=Hard=
* Add support for UPnP control of home routers from within the setup pages, e.g. to easily and dynamically control settings like DHCP server enable/disable, port forwarding, etc.
* Add support for Ubuntu or, in general, debian-based distributions
* Add support for an Android based distribution
* Enhance REST API to support management from other interfaces (eg. Android, iPhone)
* Build Android or iPhone interface to control home server
* Integrate one of the more complex applications, such as
** MythTV back-end
** FUPPES UPnP server (or other UPnP/DLNA server, eg. uShare, mediatomb)
** firewall (Shorewall, moonwall, ...)
** Asterisk
** OpenPBX
* Integration of LDAP as a back-end management system
* Feature development (examples):
** Easily change domain/DHCP settings managed by Amahi
** Use external and internal domain (internet/intranet)
** Change share servers to use a plugin system to allow each share to select which server they use
** Browseable selection of files and paths in dashboard
** Ability to add/mount disks via browser interface
** Seamlessly add drives as an option for share points

=Medium=
* Integrate a mail server
* Enhance the theme engine to handle mainstream templates directly or with minimal configuration (e.g. Drupal, Wordpress, or others)
* Replace BIND as DNS server by a more dynamic, reconfigurable DNS server
* Build an integrated contact manager application

=Easy=
* Improve the theme engine to handle more sophisticated themes
* For the more design-oriented, build new and exciting themes

Plus, of course we are open to suggestions. Open a dialog. We're happy to discuss and determine a suitable project.

For other ideas, review our page on how to [[Contribute]]. Then explore our [http://forums.amahi.org/viewforum.php?f=15 suggestions forum] and our new [http://bugs.amahi.org/ bug tracker] (features suggested).

Amahi is a platform that will support the deployment of other open source applications. If you are interested in the integration of applications in your area of interest, just contact us with suggestions.

== Reference ==

* [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 GSOC 2014]
* [http://drupal.org/node/59037 Drupal]
* [http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/SummerOfCode/ApplicationTemplate MySQL]
* [http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2009/Ideas KDE Ideas]

Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-11T03:03:12Z

Jesse Read: /* Mobile App Implementation (Android) */

Here's a sample of ideas for the 2014 GSOC application for Amahi.

This list is old and it's about to be updated for 2014.

=Critical=
=Important=
=Enhancement=
=To be Organized=
==Plugin System==
'''Description'''

Make the ability to create and install Amahi plugins easy and enable the creation of those plugins for a variety of purposes, like SMART monitoring, system stuff (network scanning, etc.) and the two examples below for the disk wizard and the Greyhole UI, among other ideas.

'''Objective'''

Create an amahi plugin system, where PHP, Python, Node, and other modern webapps can be easily integrated. We can currently do this with some RoR engines, but the mechanism is not robust enough.

'''Expected result'''

The plugins system should allow modern web-based apps to be easily integrated with Amahi -- from Node.js apps to Ruby/PHP/Python -- so that users can easily reap the benefits of the onslaught of difficult-to-deploy modern web apps with a single click install.
ProTip: possibly leverage docker containers within Amahi

'''Skills Required'''
* RoR
'''Mentor'''

==Disk Wizard==
'''Description'''

Expanding the storage capacity is an important feature of Amahi but as of now it requires advanced (e.g. command line) skills. We want easy disk/partition onboarding.

'''Objective'''

Create an amahi plugin that will streamline this process by providing a UI for disk management

'''Expected result'''

The plugins should detect if a new disk was added and it should provide a wizard to create partitions and format with the desired file system

'''Skills Required'''
* Low level system scripting

'''Mentor'''

* Dag, Bogdan

'''References'''<br />
* [http://www.openmediavault.org/ OpenMediaVault]

==Greyhole UI==
'''Description'''

Greyhole is an application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they're connected), and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails.

'''Objective'''

Create and amahi plugin that provides an UI that allows for the management of the greyhole pool.

'''Expected result'''

The plugin should allow an administrator user to:
add/remove disks to/from the pool.
*change the number of copies for individual file/directory
*invoke various gh commands
*view and monitor log files
*gui to visualize data distribution

'''Skills Required'''
* RoR, System programing

'''Mentor'''

==User Onboarding==
'''Description'''

Improved workflow for users to come up with their HDA running

'''Objective'''
Happier users

'''Expected result'''
Have an automated unit test. It should test the current network settings against the expected settings.
In case of inconsistencies it should offer the user solutions with very little interaction.

'''Skills Required'''
* RoR, scripting, netflow capture, dhcping scripting

'''Mentor'''
* Daniel, Carlos

==Backup app data/settings==
'''Description'''

An important drawback of Amahi is the inability to backup the installed applications and their user data

'''Objective'''

Create an amahi plugin that will allow backup and restore of the user data for apps installed from the AppStore

'''Expected result'''

The plugin should allow an administrator to backup any application data either on an external media or in the cloud(e.g.: Dropbox, Google Drive, etc).The restore process should check if the application is installed on the HDA and if not it should be automatically installed from the AppStore before the user data is restored.

'''Skills Required'''
* System scripting

'''Mentor'''
* Rod

==Caching Server==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Develop and plugin that will allow an administrator user to control the traffic for specific devices inside the network

'''Expected result'''

The plugin should display all the connected device as well as provide the ability to search by name/MAC address. For a selected device the administrator should:
*Limit access between certain time intervals
*Limit bandwidth
*Block certain websites (either on an individual basis or read them from a file)
*Limit traffic

'''Skills Required'''
* Squid

'''Mentor'''
* Carlos, Daniel, Jesse

==Network Groups==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''
Develop a plugin to allow network device grouping. This will be the framework for future plugins.

'''Expected result'''
Allow an administrator to group network devices in groups with different permissions.
Limit the user access to certain apps based on the group settings.
'''Skills Required'''
* RoR, system programming

'''Mentor'''
* Jesse, Daniel

==Mobile App Awesomization (iOS)==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Take the iOS app to a whole new level of usability and popularity by adding really useful features, like
*algorithmically detect image-heavy folders on the fly and offer to display them as a gallery view
*similarly with on-the-fly music folders
*dynamic search
*SPDY support for all remote accesses (+1 for local)
*support for webapp browsing
*folder sharing
*local user support
*adding support for GDrive, Dropbox
*Mobile user onboarding, and HDA setup assistance

'''Expected result'''

The mobile app will become really polished and fast, as well as a pleasure to use.

'''Skills Required'''

Objective-C/Cocoa

'''Mentor'''

Jesse, Carlos

==Mobile App Implementation (Android)==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

We have great demand for an Android app thanks to the popularity of our iOS app. Our users want us to make an Amahi Android app to support login, browsing and streaming of Amahi servers.

'''Expected result'''

An Android app that can be on par or better than the iOS app, with mobile streaming, downloading files and sharing them.

'''Skills Required'''

Java, Android Stack

'''Mentor'''

Jesse, Carlos

==Create UI and package it for RSnapshot==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

RSnapshot is a great application to backup local data, making efficient use of storage as well as CPU resources and can handle a lot of data.

'''Expected result'''

A one-click app that includes a UI to set up and manage RSnapshot backups.

Also, possibly backup to GDrive, S3, other cloud solutions

'''Skills Required'''
* RoR, system programming,

'''Mentor'''
* Rod, Dag

==Data nodes that integrate with main amahi server==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Create a system to create data nodes that integrate with the amahi API as well as auto mount as NFS or SMB shares to allow the usage of applications through locally mounted shares (such as gallery, subsonic etc). This would allow you to connect Windows / Linux computers as data nodes. Perhaps an installable agent?

'''Expected result'''

An installer that integrates with amahi (a stripped down version of Amahi?) and a management pane in the main amahi server that allows you to add a server by IP or DNS name.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Ubuntu 12.04 Amahi Development==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Further development on the amahi platform to be able to install the same applications and have the same features as the ubuntu based version.

'''Expected result'''

A new install CD or ruby package that allows you to add amahi functionality to Ubuntu 12.04 or Ubuntu 14.04 (if it is released and LTS)

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Make Amahi a rolling distribution==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Being able to upgrade amahi versions without having to upgrade OSs is very appealing and a huge win.

'''Expected result'''

Make Amahi into a rolling distribution.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

=Hard=
* Add support for UPnP control of home routers from within the setup pages, e.g. to easily and dynamically control settings like DHCP server enable/disable, port forwarding, etc.
* Add support for Ubuntu or, in general, debian-based distributions
* Add support for an Android based distribution
* Enhance REST API to support management from other interfaces (eg. Android, iPhone)
* Build Android or iPhone interface to control home server
* Integrate one of the more complex applications, such as
** MythTV back-end
** FUPPES UPnP server (or other UPnP/DLNA server, eg. uShare, mediatomb)
** firewall (Shorewall, moonwall, ...)
** Asterisk
** OpenPBX
* Integration of LDAP as a back-end management system
* Feature development (examples):
** Easily change domain/DHCP settings managed by Amahi
** Use external and internal domain (internet/intranet)
** Change share servers to use a plugin system to allow each share to select which server they use
** Browseable selection of files and paths in dashboard
** Ability to add/mount disks via browser interface
** Seamlessly add drives as an option for share points

=Medium=
* Integrate a mail server
* Enhance the theme engine to handle mainstream templates directly or with minimal configuration (e.g. Drupal, Wordpress, or others)
* Replace BIND as DNS server by a more dynamic, reconfigurable DNS server
* Build an integrated contact manager application

=Easy=
* Improve the theme engine to handle more sophisticated themes
* For the more design-oriented, build new and exciting themes

Plus, of course we are open to suggestions. Open a dialog. We're happy to discuss and determine a suitable project.

For other ideas, review our page on how to [[Contribute]]. Then explore our [http://forums.amahi.org/viewforum.php?f=15 suggestions forum] and our new [http://bugs.amahi.org/ bug tracker] (features suggested).

Amahi is a platform that will support the deployment of other open source applications. If you are interested in the integration of applications in your area of interest, just contact us with suggestions.

== Reference ==

* [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 GSOC 2014]
* [http://drupal.org/node/59037 Drupal]
* [http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/SummerOfCode/ApplicationTemplate MySQL]
* [http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2009/Ideas KDE Ideas]

Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-11T03:02:43Z

Jesse Read: /* Mobile App Awesomization (iOS) */

Here's a sample of ideas for the 2014 GSOC application for Amahi.

This list is old and it's about to be updated for 2014.

=Critical=
=Important=
=Enhancement=
=To be Organized=
==Plugin System==
'''Description'''

Make the ability to create and install Amahi plugins easy and enable the creation of those plugins for a variety of purposes, like SMART monitoring, system stuff (network scanning, etc.) and the two examples below for the disk wizard and the Greyhole UI, among other ideas.

'''Objective'''

Create an amahi plugin system, where PHP, Python, Node, and other modern webapps can be easily integrated. We can currently do this with some RoR engines, but the mechanism is not robust enough.

'''Expected result'''

The plugins system should allow modern web-based apps to be easily integrated with Amahi -- from Node.js apps to Ruby/PHP/Python -- so that users can easily reap the benefits of the onslaught of difficult-to-deploy modern web apps with a single click install.
ProTip: possibly leverage docker containers within Amahi

'''Skills Required'''
* RoR
'''Mentor'''

==Disk Wizard==
'''Description'''

Expanding the storage capacity is an important feature of Amahi but as of now it requires advanced (e.g. command line) skills. We want easy disk/partition onboarding.

'''Objective'''

Create an amahi plugin that will streamline this process by providing a UI for disk management

'''Expected result'''

The plugins should detect if a new disk was added and it should provide a wizard to create partitions and format with the desired file system

'''Skills Required'''
* Low level system scripting

'''Mentor'''

* Dag, Bogdan

'''References'''<br />
* [http://www.openmediavault.org/ OpenMediaVault]

==Greyhole UI==
'''Description'''

Greyhole is an application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they're connected), and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails.

'''Objective'''

Create and amahi plugin that provides an UI that allows for the management of the greyhole pool.

'''Expected result'''

The plugin should allow an administrator user to:
add/remove disks to/from the pool.
*change the number of copies for individual file/directory
*invoke various gh commands
*view and monitor log files
*gui to visualize data distribution

'''Skills Required'''
* RoR, System programing

'''Mentor'''

==User Onboarding==
'''Description'''

Improved workflow for users to come up with their HDA running

'''Objective'''
Happier users

'''Expected result'''
Have an automated unit test. It should test the current network settings against the expected settings.
In case of inconsistencies it should offer the user solutions with very little interaction.

'''Skills Required'''
* RoR, scripting, netflow capture, dhcping scripting

'''Mentor'''
* Daniel, Carlos

==Backup app data/settings==
'''Description'''

An important drawback of Amahi is the inability to backup the installed applications and their user data

'''Objective'''

Create an amahi plugin that will allow backup and restore of the user data for apps installed from the AppStore

'''Expected result'''

The plugin should allow an administrator to backup any application data either on an external media or in the cloud(e.g.: Dropbox, Google Drive, etc).The restore process should check if the application is installed on the HDA and if not it should be automatically installed from the AppStore before the user data is restored.

'''Skills Required'''
* System scripting

'''Mentor'''
* Rod

==Caching Server==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Develop and plugin that will allow an administrator user to control the traffic for specific devices inside the network

'''Expected result'''

The plugin should display all the connected device as well as provide the ability to search by name/MAC address. For a selected device the administrator should:
*Limit access between certain time intervals
*Limit bandwidth
*Block certain websites (either on an individual basis or read them from a file)
*Limit traffic

'''Skills Required'''
* Squid

'''Mentor'''
* Carlos, Daniel, Jesse

==Network Groups==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''
Develop a plugin to allow network device grouping. This will be the framework for future plugins.

'''Expected result'''
Allow an administrator to group network devices in groups with different permissions.
Limit the user access to certain apps based on the group settings.
'''Skills Required'''
* RoR, system programming

'''Mentor'''
* Jesse, Daniel

==Mobile App Awesomization (iOS)==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Take the iOS app to a whole new level of usability and popularity by adding really useful features, like
*algorithmically detect image-heavy folders on the fly and offer to display them as a gallery view
*similarly with on-the-fly music folders
*dynamic search
*SPDY support for all remote accesses (+1 for local)
*support for webapp browsing
*folder sharing
*local user support
*adding support for GDrive, Dropbox
*Mobile user onboarding, and HDA setup assistance

'''Expected result'''

The mobile app will become really polished and fast, as well as a pleasure to use.

'''Skills Required'''

Objective-C/Cocoa

'''Mentor'''

Jesse, Carlos

==Mobile App Implementation (Android)==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

We have great demand for an Android app thanks to the popularity of our iOS app. Our users want us to make an Amahi Android app to support login, browsing and streaming of Amahi servers.

'''Expected result'''

An Android app that can be on par or better than the iOS app, with mobile streaming, downloading files and sharing them.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Create UI and package it for RSnapshot==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

RSnapshot is a great application to backup local data, making efficient use of storage as well as CPU resources and can handle a lot of data.

'''Expected result'''

A one-click app that includes a UI to set up and manage RSnapshot backups.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Data nodes that integrate with main amahi server==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Create a system to create data nodes that integrate with the amahi API as well as auto mount as NFS or SMB shares to allow the usage of applications through locally mounted shares (such as gallery, subsonic etc). This would allow you to connect Windows / Linux computers as data nodes. Perhaps an installable agent?

'''Expected result'''

An installer that integrates with amahi (a stripped down version of Amahi?) and a management pane in the main amahi server that allows you to add a server by IP or DNS name.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Ubuntu 12.04 Amahi Development==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Further development on the amahi platform to be able to install the same applications and have the same features as the ubuntu based version.

'''Expected result'''

A new install CD or ruby package that allows you to add amahi functionality to Ubuntu 12.04 or Ubuntu 14.04 (if it is released and LTS)

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Make Amahi a rolling distribution==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Being able to upgrade amahi versions without having to upgrade OSs is very appealing and a huge win.

'''Expected result'''

Make Amahi into a rolling distribution.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

=Hard=
* Add support for UPnP control of home routers from within the setup pages, e.g. to easily and dynamically control settings like DHCP server enable/disable, port forwarding, etc.
* Add support for Ubuntu or, in general, debian-based distributions
* Add support for an Android based distribution
* Enhance REST API to support management from other interfaces (eg. Android, iPhone)
* Build Android or iPhone interface to control home server
* Integrate one of the more complex applications, such as
** MythTV back-end
** FUPPES UPnP server (or other UPnP/DLNA server, eg. uShare, mediatomb)
** firewall (Shorewall, moonwall, ...)
** Asterisk
** OpenPBX
* Integration of LDAP as a back-end management system
* Feature development (examples):
** Easily change domain/DHCP settings managed by Amahi
** Use external and internal domain (internet/intranet)
** Change share servers to use a plugin system to allow each share to select which server they use
** Browseable selection of files and paths in dashboard
** Ability to add/mount disks via browser interface
** Seamlessly add drives as an option for share points

=Medium=
* Integrate a mail server
* Enhance the theme engine to handle mainstream templates directly or with minimal configuration (e.g. Drupal, Wordpress, or others)
* Replace BIND as DNS server by a more dynamic, reconfigurable DNS server
* Build an integrated contact manager application

=Easy=
* Improve the theme engine to handle more sophisticated themes
* For the more design-oriented, build new and exciting themes

Plus, of course we are open to suggestions. Open a dialog. We're happy to discuss and determine a suitable project.

For other ideas, review our page on how to [[Contribute]]. Then explore our [http://forums.amahi.org/viewforum.php?f=15 suggestions forum] and our new [http://bugs.amahi.org/ bug tracker] (features suggested).

Amahi is a platform that will support the deployment of other open source applications. If you are interested in the integration of applications in your area of interest, just contact us with suggestions.

== Reference ==

* [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 GSOC 2014]
* [http://drupal.org/node/59037 Drupal]
* [http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/SummerOfCode/ApplicationTemplate MySQL]
* [http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2009/Ideas KDE Ideas]

Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-11T03:02:06Z

Jesse Read: /* Mobile App Awesomization (iOS) */

Here's a sample of ideas for the 2014 GSOC application for Amahi.

This list is old and it's about to be updated for 2014.

=Critical=
=Important=
=Enhancement=
=To be Organized=
==Plugin System==
'''Description'''

Make the ability to create and install Amahi plugins easy and enable the creation of those plugins for a variety of purposes, like SMART monitoring, system stuff (network scanning, etc.) and the two examples below for the disk wizard and the Greyhole UI, among other ideas.

'''Objective'''

Create an amahi plugin system, where PHP, Python, Node, and other modern webapps can be easily integrated. We can currently do this with some RoR engines, but the mechanism is not robust enough.

'''Expected result'''

The plugins system should allow modern web-based apps to be easily integrated with Amahi -- from Node.js apps to Ruby/PHP/Python -- so that users can easily reap the benefits of the onslaught of difficult-to-deploy modern web apps with a single click install.
ProTip: possibly leverage docker containers within Amahi

'''Skills Required'''
* RoR
'''Mentor'''

==Disk Wizard==
'''Description'''

Expanding the storage capacity is an important feature of Amahi but as of now it requires advanced (e.g. command line) skills. We want easy disk/partition onboarding.

'''Objective'''

Create an amahi plugin that will streamline this process by providing a UI for disk management

'''Expected result'''

The plugins should detect if a new disk was added and it should provide a wizard to create partitions and format with the desired file system

'''Skills Required'''
* Low level system scripting

'''Mentor'''

* Dag, Bogdan

'''References'''<br />
* [http://www.openmediavault.org/ OpenMediaVault]

==Greyhole UI==
'''Description'''

Greyhole is an application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they're connected), and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails.

'''Objective'''

Create and amahi plugin that provides an UI that allows for the management of the greyhole pool.

'''Expected result'''

The plugin should allow an administrator user to:
add/remove disks to/from the pool.
*change the number of copies for individual file/directory
*invoke various gh commands
*view and monitor log files
*gui to visualize data distribution

'''Skills Required'''
* RoR, System programing

'''Mentor'''

==User Onboarding==
'''Description'''

Improved workflow for users to come up with their HDA running

'''Objective'''
Happier users

'''Expected result'''
Have an automated unit test. It should test the current network settings against the expected settings.
In case of inconsistencies it should offer the user solutions with very little interaction.

'''Skills Required'''
* RoR, scripting, netflow capture, dhcping scripting

'''Mentor'''
* Daniel, Carlos

==Backup app data/settings==
'''Description'''

An important drawback of Amahi is the inability to backup the installed applications and their user data

'''Objective'''

Create an amahi plugin that will allow backup and restore of the user data for apps installed from the AppStore

'''Expected result'''

The plugin should allow an administrator to backup any application data either on an external media or in the cloud(e.g.: Dropbox, Google Drive, etc).The restore process should check if the application is installed on the HDA and if not it should be automatically installed from the AppStore before the user data is restored.

'''Skills Required'''
* System scripting

'''Mentor'''
* Rod

==Caching Server==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Develop and plugin that will allow an administrator user to control the traffic for specific devices inside the network

'''Expected result'''

The plugin should display all the connected device as well as provide the ability to search by name/MAC address. For a selected device the administrator should:
*Limit access between certain time intervals
*Limit bandwidth
*Block certain websites (either on an individual basis or read them from a file)
*Limit traffic

'''Skills Required'''
* Squid

'''Mentor'''
* Carlos, Daniel, Jesse

==Network Groups==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''
Develop a plugin to allow network device grouping. This will be the framework for future plugins.

'''Expected result'''
Allow an administrator to group network devices in groups with different permissions.
Limit the user access to certain apps based on the group settings.
'''Skills Required'''
* RoR, system programming

'''Mentor'''
* Jesse, Daniel

==Mobile App Awesomization (iOS)==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Take the iOS app to a whole new level of usability and popularity by adding really useful features, like
*algorithmically detect image-heavy folders on the fly and offer to display them as a gallery view
*similarly with on-the-fly music folders
*dynamic search
*SPDY support for all remote accesses (+1 for local)
*support for webapp browsing
*folder sharing
*local user support
*adding support for GDrive, Dropbox

'''Expected result'''

The mobile app will become really polished and fast, as well as a pleasure to use.

'''Skills Required'''

Objective-C/Cocoa

'''Mentor'''

Jesse, Carlos

==Mobile App Implementation (Android)==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

We have great demand for an Android app thanks to the popularity of our iOS app. Our users want us to make an Amahi Android app to support login, browsing and streaming of Amahi servers.

'''Expected result'''

An Android app that can be on par or better than the iOS app, with mobile streaming, downloading files and sharing them.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Create UI and package it for RSnapshot==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

RSnapshot is a great application to backup local data, making efficient use of storage as well as CPU resources and can handle a lot of data.

'''Expected result'''

A one-click app that includes a UI to set up and manage RSnapshot backups.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Data nodes that integrate with main amahi server==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Create a system to create data nodes that integrate with the amahi API as well as auto mount as NFS or SMB shares to allow the usage of applications through locally mounted shares (such as gallery, subsonic etc). This would allow you to connect Windows / Linux computers as data nodes. Perhaps an installable agent?

'''Expected result'''

An installer that integrates with amahi (a stripped down version of Amahi?) and a management pane in the main amahi server that allows you to add a server by IP or DNS name.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Ubuntu 12.04 Amahi Development==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Further development on the amahi platform to be able to install the same applications and have the same features as the ubuntu based version.

'''Expected result'''

A new install CD or ruby package that allows you to add amahi functionality to Ubuntu 12.04 or Ubuntu 14.04 (if it is released and LTS)

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

==Make Amahi a rolling distribution==
'''Description'''

'''Objective'''

Being able to upgrade amahi versions without having to upgrade OSs is very appealing and a huge win.

'''Expected result'''

Make Amahi into a rolling distribution.

'''Skills Required'''

'''Mentor'''

=Hard=
* Add support for UPnP control of home routers from within the setup pages, e.g. to easily and dynamically control settings like DHCP server enable/disable, port forwarding, etc.
* Add support for Ubuntu or, in general, debian-based distributions
* Add support for an Android based distribution
* Enhance REST API to support management from other interfaces (eg. Android, iPhone)
* Build Android or iPhone interface to control home server
* Integrate one of the more complex applications, such as
** MythTV back-end
** FUPPES UPnP server (or other UPnP/DLNA server, eg. uShare, mediatomb)
** firewall (Shorewall, moonwall, ...)
** Asterisk
** OpenPBX
* Integration of LDAP as a back-end management system
* Feature development (examples):
** Easily change domain/DHCP settings managed by Amahi
** Use external and internal domain (internet/intranet)
** Change share servers to use a plugin system to allow each share to select which server they use
** Browseable selection of files and paths in dashboard
** Ability to add/mount disks via browser interface
** Seamlessly add drives as an option for share points

=Medium=
* Integrate a mail server
* Enhance the theme engine to handle mainstream templates directly or with minimal configuration (e.g. Drupal, Wordpress, or others)
* Replace BIND as DNS server by a more dynamic, reconfigurable DNS server
* Build an integrated contact manager application

=Easy=
* Improve the theme engine to handle more sophisticated themes
* For the more design-oriented, build new and exciting themes

Plus, of course we are open to suggestions. Open a dialog. We're happy to discuss and determine a suitable project.

For other ideas, review our page on how to [[Contribute]]. Then explore our [http://forums.amahi.org/viewforum.php?f=15 suggestions forum] and our new [http://bugs.amahi.org/ bug tracker] (features suggested).

Amahi is a platform that will support the deployment of other open source applications. If you are interested in the integration of applications in your area of interest, just contact us with suggestions.

== Reference ==

* [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 GSOC 2014]
* [http://drupal.org/node/59037 Drupal]
* [http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/SummerOfCode/ApplicationTemplate MySQL]
* [http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2009/Ideas KDE Ideas]