Summer Projects for Google Summer of Code

• Port the FlightGear flight simulator to Native Client. See http://www.flightgear.org.
• Port the Frets on Fire music game to Native Client. See: http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net.
• Port the Freeciv game to Native Client. See http://freeciv.net.
• Port the MAME arcade game simulator to Native Client. See http://mamedev.org.
• Port the GIMP image editor to Native Client. See http://www.gimp.org/source.
• Port SQLite to Native Client. See http://sqlite.org/
• Implement deterministic execution for Native Client. Difficulty: Very Hard
• Create a test suite for Basic Platform Independent NPAPI. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Plugins:PlatformIndependentNPAPI Difficulty: Hard
• Create a tests suite for Platform Independent NPAPI. Subprojects: 2D, Events. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Plugins:PlatformIndependentNPAPI. Difficulty: Hard
• Create a tests suite for media Platform Independent NPAPI. Subprojects: 2D, Events. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Plugins:PlatformIndependentNPAPI. Difficulty: Very Hard

General Project Areas

Testing

• Contribute tests. We always need more tests.
• Write fuzzing tests for Native Client module interfaces.
• Write fuzzing tests for the validator.

Application Development

Port a Linux open source game to Native Client. Here's a couple relevant lists:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_games * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_console_emulators

Start work on one of the obvious applications: * image editor * drawing program (remember MacDraw?) * spreadsheet * speech recognition or synthesis

Infrastructure

Port a popular open source Linux library to Native Client. See native_client_sdk for some libraries we've already ported. * Port SWIG to generate Native Client stubs on top of the Native Client IMC. This could help us allow languages like Python to make calls into the browser/JavaScript environment * Port GTK to Native Client * Port something a lot easier than SWIG or GTK

Port your favorite language system to Native Client. Awk, Lua, Python, Ruby, have been ported or are underway. * Port gcj or other interpreted Java system to Native Client. * Port a new compiler/language to Native Client: ML, Lisp, Scheme, Smalltalk, Prolog, Cobal, Fortran. * Develop a NPAPI/Pepper interface for one of these languages.