If you are you a GSOC student or and have questions about = About Amahi, you can contact us via IRC on [http://talk.amahi.org #amahi on irc.freenode.net] (fairly active) or on the amahi-devel [[mailing list]] (not as active). 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. One of the most important things is to find an area that you '''enjoy''', using a programming language that you know or that you are willing to learn, so read below or ask questions.=

If you are interested We're looking for students with skills in being a mentorthese areas: current technologies like RoR, we have six great mentors ruby, python, PHP, as well as of todaynext generation technologies, but like Go (we're very welcoming of more ideas and more mentors! See the [[#Mentors]] below. Looking use it for ideas streaming to mentorour mobile apps), see the [https://nodejs.org/ Node.js], [#Other Ideashttps://github.com/amahi/spdy HTTP/2]] below, javascript frameworks for user interaction, visualization or server services, etc.

= About '''We're also looking for hardware projects! Creating a Raspberry Pi-style device with great I/O that can run Amahi=smoothly is a long-tem goal for Amahi!'''

Amahi is a full and proper server made up of* A Linux system based on a mainline distribution, currently Fedora, but we support supported Ubuntu before as well

At Amahi we use [https://github.com/amahi git] for our version management = What to do (and the technologies we have ended up using are Ruby, Ruby on Rails, generally Linux system internal technologies like system services, configuration areas, web server virtualhosts, databases, DNS, etc., etc. We're looking for students who are interested in both current technologies like RoR, as well as next generation technologies we are using or could be using, like Go (we use it for streaming to our mobile appsNOT do), Node.js, javascript frameworks for user interaction, visualization or server services, [https://github.com/amahi/spdy SPDY], etc. etc.first =

BUT First, Introduce yourself, interact with the community, so please [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScP4Q2iSzLXCjz1gK2eNutO8IhX_PETXU2bL8pqmhe2t1nCqg/viewform?usp== Platform ==sf_link introduce yourself with this form], so that we know your background and interests.

One of the most important things is to find an area that you '''Descriptionenjoy''': Make the ability , using a programming environment that you know or that you are willing to create and install [https://github.com/amahi/platform/blob/master/doc/plugins.md Amahi Plugins] easy and enable the creation of those plugins for a variety of purposes, like SMART monitoring, system stuff (network scanninglearn quickly, etc.) and the two examples so read below for the disk wizard and the Greyhole UI, among other ideasor ask questions.

'''Objective''': Create an amahi plugin systemIf you are interested in being a mentor, where PHP, Python, Node, and other modern webapps can be easily integrated. We can currently do this with some RoR engineswe have a few great mentors as of today, 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 we're very welcoming of the onslaught of difficult-to-deploy modern web apps with a single click install.ProTip: possibly leverage docker containers within Amahimore ideas and more mentors!

'''Skills Required''': RoRSee the [[#Mentors|mentors]] below. Looking for ideas to mentor, gitsee the [[#Other Ideas|other ideas]] below.

'''Skills Required'''Plugins are "mini apps" that live inside the Amahi platform and thus little interface need to be developed for them. They are familiar and provide easy, focused value to the user. Ideas: Low level system scripting, git

* Support for automatic issuing/renewal and installation of [https://letsencrypt.org/ Let'''Mentors'''s Encrypt] certificates in the platform, for external access across the internet* [https://bugs.amahi.org/issues/1361 Share space usage]: Using [http://d3js.org D3.js] (for example) to visualize things internal to the system, like finding out the disk space used by shares, disk usage over time, etc.* [https://bugs.amahi.org/issues/1480 Wake-on-LAN (WOL)]: The Amahi [http://www.amahi.org/apps/wake-on-lan-server Wake-On-LAN Server] app currently provides this capability.* [https://bugs.amahi.org/issues/1481 Virus Scan Shares]* [https://bugs.amahi.org/issues/1489 Netboot Settings/Configuration]* [https://bugs.amahi.org/issues/1487 Mail Relay] (i.e. using Gmail or ISP)* [https://bugs.amahi.org/issues/1459 Convert app] [https://www.amahi.org/apps/Amahi-energy-saver Amahi Energy Saver] to a plugin.* View log files in web browser ([https://github.com/tobi/clarity Clarity using RoR])* Ability to update default SSL certificates (used by [https://www.amahi.org/apps/openvpn OpenVPN], [https: Dag//www.amahi.org/apps/amahi-anywhere Amahi Anywhere], Bogdanetc).* AmahiTunes revival* RAID (SW, MDADM?) support* [https://bugs.amahi.org/issues/1458 SMART Disk] monitoring

'''DescriptionMentors''': [http://www.greyhole.net/ 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 storeRod, 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.Carlos

'''Objective'''=== [https: Create and //www.amahi plugin that provides an UI that allows for the management of the greyhole pool. The plugin should allow an administrator user to:addorg/remove disks to/from the pool.* change the number of copies for individual fileapps/directory* invoke various gh commands* view and monitor log files* gui to visualize data distributiondisk-wizard Disk Wizard] ===

'''Skills RequiredObjective''': RoR, System programming, gitStability improvements and especially thoroughly testing this plugin for disk/partition management.

'''MentorsSkills Required''': Carlos, RodLow level system scripting

'''DescriptionReferences''': When new versions of Amahi come out, a drawback of Amahi is that it's hard to backup * [https://bugs.amahi.org/issues/580 Track the settings (edisk wizard]* [[New Disk Wizard]] ideas page* [http://www.gopenmediavault. partitioning) installed applications and their user dataorg/ OpenMediaVault] does have a nice wizard that people like

'''Skills RequiredDescription''': System scripting, git[[Amahi 12]] is our next release.

'''MentorObjective''': RodWork closely with the core team to define the features and functionality that we need to implement to get Amahi released. This project is about working on RoR and the Amahi platform core. Some of the core technology will need to be upgraded, Daniellike Rails 5, latest Phusion Passenger, possibly replace MySQL for the platform, create a native API to the platform that can be used by other apps, like mobile apps. Other ideas include beefing up security and provide support for Amahi hosting on the cloud. Features:

'''DescriptionMentors''': 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 appCarlos, Rod, and even shows it up with additional features!Sukhbir

'''ObjectiveReference''': An Android app that is on par or better than the iOS app, including mobile streaming, downloading files and sharing them[https://github.com/amahi/platform Amahi Platform repo]

'''Skills Required''': Java, == Android, REST, JSON API programming, media interaction in Android, gitMobile App==

Our mobile apps have streaming, browsing and sharing and it'''Mentor''': Jesse Read, Carlos, Bogdans a great topic.

'''Objective''': One requested feature for our mobile app (iOS and later ===Android) is the ability to browse apps within our mobile app. Our server side of the app needs to be setup to proxy specific webapps that the user has installed.Collaboration with the iOS/Android devs will also be necessary to prototype itApp Improvements===

'''Skills RequiredDescription''': Go programmingAmahi Android offers the ability to stream your HDA over your Android phone and Android TV, gitsupport for Chromecast and auto-upload of images to HDA. The next step is to complete the following objectives:

'''MentorsObjectives''': Carlos, Bogdan

* Android TV Revamp: The Android TV app is outdated at the moment and doesn'''Reference'''t follow the latest design principles of Android. We have to redesign the app so that Amahi is accessible on Android TV again. Further, we have to implement the PlayerAdapter in Android TV to support previews.* Support for Dagger 2: The current app is written using Dagger 1. We have to port the code to Dagger 2 so that we can use the latest libraries which are dependent on it.* Support for NAU: Complete the app with support for Non-Admin User which currently exists on the server-side only. Ref: [https://gitbutdocs.orggoogle.com/amahi Amahi Github repo], presentation/d/1jZAdXpSGQRJ6xN2WCzqkiPxQPUW2VHsAnpENZKbT2z0* UI Improvements and UI Testing: Adding an Expresso based automated UI testing protocol.* Improve Background Service: Improve the app for uploading media on the HDA when the app isn't present in particular the SPDY and SPDYforeground* Phone Auto-Backup: Develop a module that does an Auto backup of the phone to the HDA over Local connection (reference: Helium)* Friending Feature: Implement the sharing of folders or shares with other servers. https://docs.google.com/document/d/14JsH9-aZrE3Z-35Oo38IY1-3Nd5BJiR_G0DshhjKSM4/* VPN: Add support for VPN proxy so that the user can access the HDA from the phone over a VPN proxy repos written in Golangtunnel.

'''DescriptionSkills Required''': While Amahi has an [https://www.amahi.org/ios iOS] application already and it's ''loved'' among our users, 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, fastJava, and enjoyable application for our users.Android framework

'''ObjectiveMentors''': 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 DriveCarlos, and other third-party services.*Improve the first-launch user experience*Add functionality to assist with HDA setup assistanceChirag

'''ReferenceDescription''': [http://wwwImprove the security of our OpenVPN and IPSec VPN apps.amahiExamples are allowing users to generate their own certificates, identify weak spots and strengthen them.org/ios Amahi for iOS]

'''Description''': App reliability is critical for Amahi. We have been striving to develop a customized CI (Continuous Integration) server for testing apps. '''Objective''': Develop up a CI server for apps (we have been calling a prototype "the app grinder") . The goal is to achieve 100% app installation and reliability. An important goal is to support a tester program for Amahi. We have a number of ideas of what we want to achieve -- how to design the CI server so that testers can easily see their passes, failures and anything in between. '''Skills Required''': Capybara, ruby, Webkit, Selenium, git, maybe Vagrant and system scripting. Other possible technologies could be Jenkins, Travis, etc. '''Mentors''': Carlos, Bogdan ===App Sandboxing=== '''Description''': Use containers to improve app stability '''Objective''': Some apps may be more suitably installed inside a container because they may be too disruptive in a system. Can we you use popular sandboxing environments to contain apps that want to take over thingsRod, like Zimbra, or some PBX/VoIP systems, etc. '''Skills Required''': [http://docker.io Docker], Vagrant (for testing), ruby, bash, [http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/mbox/ Mbox], git '''Mentor:''': Carlos, Bogdan == Apps== Innovative app packaging or app related projects.

'''Objective''': Develop and a 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:

'''MentorsSkills Required''': Daniel, Jessesystem configuration and scripting

===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, git '''Mentors''': JesseCarlos, DanielRod

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

'''Mentor''': Carlos, Rod, DagSukhbir

'''Description''': Improved installation experience for users. For example, create a new [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda Anaconda] node for Amahi configuration. Similarly for Ubuntu.

'''Objective''': Configuration and installation of Amahi can be painful for some percentage of users. Many who of them do not know much or care about for Linux. We want to make the installation as smooth as possible not just for them, but for more even more regular (non-techy) users. Ubuntu has some challenges of its own to make it work without dropping the users to the command line.* Create a new [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda Anaconda] node for Amahi configuration* Similarly for Ubuntu

'''Mentors'''Idea: Carlos, Daniel, Jesseuse [https://github.com/diafygi/webrtc-ips this package ] to help improve installation networking issues.

'''DescriptionMentors''': Help users get their HDA up Carlos, Rod ==Amahi Anywhere== The mobile apps use API endpoints provided by Amahi Anywhere for browsing, downloading and running with minimal interaction after installationstreaming files and more.

'''ObjectiveReferences''': Happier users. The idea is to implement an automated configuration check tool. The current * [httphttps://www.amahi.net org/apps/amahi-anywhere Amahi Interactive TroubleshooterAnywhere App] 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[https://github.com/amahi/amahi-anywhere-specs Amahi Anywhere Specs]

'''MentorsDescription''': Daniel, CarlosAmahi Anywhere File Server exposes HDA files and directories via REST APIs and also allows to upload new files

'''Description''': Get Amahi ready for * API to access platform apps over remote via proxy* Better logging ([https://wiki.ubuntugithub.com/TrustyTahramahi/ReleaseSchedule Ubuntu 14amahi-anywhere-fs/issues/4 Issue #4])* Simplistic dashboard to view some metrics like number of users connected, access logs for each user, system health etc.04]* API to fetch metadata (duration, codec, album art image, title, artist name, album name, year etc.) for audio / video files* Create and cache low resolution thumbnail for image files for faster loading and enhanced experience

'''Skills Required''': rubyGoLang, ISO creation, gitREST API Understanding

'''MentorMentors''': Carlos, FransChirag

===Clustering Amahi ServersImprovements in External Proxy===

'''Description''': Create a system External proxy provides API endpoints for users to create data nodes that integrate with the remotely access 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?Anywhere File Server

'''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.Following features can be implemented:

'''Skills Required''': GoLang '''Mentors''': Carlos, Chirag ===Rolling Distribution==Other Ideas=

'''Description'''* Add features to our popular mobile apps: Make Offer to display image-heavy folders and shares within a "gallery" or collection view, add 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.). Mentors available: Carlos* PHP API: make a native PHP SDK for the Amahi platform, so that PHP apps (we have a lot of them) can more easy be integrated * Integrate a [httpsmail server as an app. Identify any settings or configuration that need to be implemented in the platform* Router integration, UPNP, direct control* Port AES (Amahi Energy Server) to the latest Amahi* Integration of LDAP as a back-end management system, calendaring* Feature development (examples):* Calendaring, and integrated contact manager application. Possible options: 1) ownCloud based or 2) Apache carddav* For the more design-oriented, build mobile theme(s)* Documentation or screencasts//entutorials* Use sandboxing and containers to improve app stability, updating and more* Improve installation and user onboarding (OOBE)* Better upgrades with backup of apps, settings, etc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_release rolling distribution]* Create a backup and restore function for the Amahi Server (Idea is to backup the of the setting like the shares, paths and Fixed IP address and Mac Address, remove all the data drives) reinstall the OS or Upgrade and then put the data dives back in and then restore all the setting)* make the Amahi front end webpage more mobile-friendly* Add Icon for the install app pages and have more screenshots* make it easier to run multi servers on one network* DHCP page a button to add a device to Fixed IP address will be able to change the fix IP address and the Name or just us the default one* update Button on installed apps this will only work on apps that are updateable, it will run an update script from when the was created, lots of apps nowadays are updated able and would save time uninstalled and reinstalling* Create a page or tab on Amahi front end to be able to add docker container apps select icon and name and address:port

Plus, of course we are open to suggestions. Open a dialog. We'''Skills Required''': major Linux packaging mojo, ruby, system scripting, ISO packaging, repo creation, gitre happy to discuss and determine a suitable project.

'''Mentor''': CarlosAmahi 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, Jesse Readjust contact us with suggestions.

== GUI and UX =Mentors=

This area can offer is a list of '''a lotcommitted''' of possibilities for ideasmentors. A lot can be improved If you are interested in Amahi to make the users happier. We are listing one topic here, but there are manymentoring, from a better front-end HTML let us know via IRC (responsiveness, html5 compliance, browser compatibility, etc.mention the nicks below), to CSS re-implementation, to allow for nice JS libraries to be used in plugins easily, like D3.js, Highcharts, etc., etc.:

'''Objective'''Reference:* allow the usage of popular themes out there, like themes for Drupal, Wordpress, etc[https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/ GSoC mentoring page]., with minor configuration changes, or even directly* allow the integration of mobile themes* provide hooks to detect mobile devices and present a mobile theme

'''Skills Required''': CSSAmahi participated in GSOC in 2020, HTML52019, ruby2018, RoR[[Google Summer of Code 2017]] 2016, gitand [[Google Summer of Code 2014]]

* Integrate a mail server* Router integration, UPNP, direct control* Port AES (Amahi Energy Server) to Amahi 7* Integration '''Objective''': Addition of LDAP as a back-end management system, calendaring* Feature development (examples):* Calendaring, new features and integrated contact manager application: possible workimprovements in pre-around - owncloud* For the more design-oriented, build mobile theme(s)* PHP API: make it easy existing ones in iOS app in swift to customize at least match or surpass the many apps that use phpAndroid app

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'''Skills Required''': iOS programming, just contact us with suggestions.Swift

='''Mentors=Reference [http'''://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/ GSOC mentoring page]. This is a list of committed mentors. If you are interested in mentoringCarlos, let us knowChirag

* Carlos Puchol (cpg, PST, GSOC admin)'''Reference''': team lead for Amahi, experience in RoR, Go, Ruby, RoR, system scripting[https://github.com/amahi/development, app packaging, C, C++* Bogdan Mitrea (megabitdragon, CST, GSOC admin): Android, Java, app packaging, system programming, community lead* Rod Runyon (bigfoot65, CST): app lead for ios Amahi, system programming, app packaging, reliability, documentation, support* Jesse Read (DarthNerdus, EST): mobile team lead, system development, Objective C, iOS, Java, Android, C, C++, and much more* Daniel Falk (dnfalk, CST): system development and management, virtualization, networking, infrastructure* Dag Notland (dano5, CET): app packaging, system programming, community leadrepo]