Google Summer of Code 2010

Ideas

This is just a selection of ideas but if the students have their own ideas they will be very appreciated. Another source of inspiration is our Wishlist?.

All the ideas related with eBox platform (improvements and new modules) require some knowledge of the Perl language as well as Web development skills. The ebox-desktop monitorization agent could be implemented in any language.

eBox-desktop improvements

• Adaptation for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid).
• Desktop integration:
  • Extend application preconfiguration (GNOME configuration based on groups, local groups and sudo, etc).
  • Monitoring (maybe integration of  TCOS Monitor,  iTALC or  Control Aula), to close sessions remotely, monitor or take screenshots of logged clients, send them messages, etc.
• Monitor and software agent:
  • Status of the installed software packages, install new packages and updates.
  • Monitor using ebox-monitor (collectd), extend with SNMP support. Alerts using eBox events.

eBox Platform improvements

• Network improvements:
  • IPv6 support: enable IPv6 support on all the services (Squid, Samba, Mail, etc) and add IPv6 capabilities to ebox-network, ebox-objects and ebox-firewall.
  • Traffic shapping improvements: tracking new connections, large transfers, incoming traffic, etc. Analyze current traffic and propose a better QoS configuration.
  • Network monitoring (based on ntop or any other similar tool) with protocols, clients, bandwidth, QoS classes, etc.
• UTM improvements:
  • Enhance IDS module with Snort & Firewall integration ( Snortsam).
• Office server improvements:
  • Funambol integration for mail/egroupware.

New modules

• CCTV module (ZoneMinder integration).
• Virtualization module (libvirt integration).
• Development module (Trac + Subversion integration).