The coding period is starting for Google Summer of Code 2014. I am pleased to list the 28 projects (7 more than last year!) that are mentored this year under the Mozilla banner.

The title of each project is linked to the location where the student will be posting weekly updates on their progress, if you want to follow along with a project you are interested in. I’m sure they would appreciate any help or advice you have :-) Please help them write useful code during the summer!

Project Title	Student	Mentor
MDN – Bug Fixing and Polishing	Akshay Aurora	David Walsh
Firefox OS Games Resources	Andre Alves Garzia	Soledad Penades
Development of both online as offline speech recognition to B2G and Firefox	Andre Natal	Guilherme Goncalves
Porting key Meemoo modules to NoFlo	Vilson Vieira	Forrest Oliphant
Functional Test Suite and Features for QA Taskboard - One and Done	Pankaj Malhotra	Bob Silverberg
Implement Zest recorder and runner	Sunny Gogoi	Simon Bennetts
Improve font handling and text shaping in Servo	Patryk Obara	Patrick Walton
Add learning capability in the Gaia Keyboard prediction	Sukant Garg	Jan Jongboom
Browsercast	Gabriel Ivanica	Greg Wilson
Migrate from YUI2 to YUI3 . Bug 453268	Ishitva Goel	Byron Jones
Implement Speech Synthesis on Desktop Firefox	Yashasvi Girdhar	Eitan
Add markdown support to Bugzilla	Koosha Khajehmoogahi	David Lawrence
Improved messaging functionality and interaction in the SMS app	Kumar Rishav	Gabriele Svelto
Update Lightning Invitations to Latest Specification	Malintha Fernando	Mohit Kanwal
Implement XMLHttpRequest in Servo	Manish Goregaokar	Josh Matthews
Instantbird: WebRTC Support	Mayank Kumar	BenediktP
Instantbird: Indexed Chat History and Infinite Conversation Scrollback	Nihanth Subramanya	aleth
Peer instruction on the Web	Piotr Banaszkiewicz	mhoye
Implementation of SVG Backend for PDF.js	Pramodh KP	yury
A Desktop Environment based on B2G	Towfique Anam	Fabrice Desr'e
Math virtual keyboard	Raniere Silva	Salva
Improve Calendar Backends	Reid Anderson	Philipp Kewisch
Kitherder, web application for the Security Mentorships program	Renee Cheung	Yvan Boily
FileLinks in IMs / File transfer	Saurabh Anand	clokep
Thunderbird - Make the unit test framework work with maildir mailbox format	Suyash Agarwal	R Kent James
Mozilla Intellego -- Terminology-driven automatic translation of web sites.	Tharshan Muthulingam	Jeff
Implement Electrolysis Support for Addon SDK	Tomislav Jovanovic	gozala
Mochitest Failure Investigator	Vaibhav Agrawal	joelmaher

http://blog.queze.net/post/2014/05/20/Summer-of-Code-2014-projects