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Your work sample should be a short written case study of a program or project you have done as a volunteer or as a new employee, technical or non, and should describe exactly how this program or project included you and failed to include you. Specific examples, connections to research, and detail are appreciated. It should be a several paragraph document.
====Improving user experience of Firefox Accounts====
* Mentor: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/vladikoff/ Vlad Filippov] (vladikoff on IRC)
There are several pending initiatives that are focused on improving the user experience of Firefox Sync and Firefox Accounts. As part of this Outreachy internship project you will be involved in improving user interaction, running experiments, and measuring success of certain features. Your software engineering skills will assist in the following:
Developing new application improvements to reduce the number of user errors on password reset, password change, and sign up flows.
Improving the verification rate and speed of new users signing up for Firefox Accounts.
Skill requirements for this project: Git, JavaScript.
Software requirements: Mac OS or Linux.
As part of your application please try to fix a ‘good first bug’ at:
[https://waffle.io/mozilla/fxa?label=good-first-bug waffle.io/mozilla/fxa?label=good-first-bug]
To get started with Firefox Accounts please visit: [https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-content-server#quick-start github.com/mozilla/fxa-content-server#quick-start]
To learn more about Firefox Accounts project check out: [https://fxa.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ fxa.readthedocs.io/en/latest/]
====Improving server-side components of Firefox Accounts====
* Mentor: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/vladikoff/ Vlad Filippov] (vladikoff on IRC)
This project is part of improving the server components of Firefox Accounts. You will be involved in improving the security, APIs, and measuring success of certain features. Detailed projects:
Improving Firefox Sync and Firefox Accounts integration.
Improving device management and OAuth APIs.
Skill requirements for this project: Git, Node.js.
Software requirements: Mac OS or Linux.
As part of your application please try to fix a ‘good first bug’ at:
[https://waffle.io/mozilla/fxa?label=good-first-bug waffle.io/mozilla/fxa?label=good-first-bug]
To get started with Firefox Accounts please visit: [https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-content-server#quick-start github.com/mozilla/fxa-content-server#quick-start]
To learn more about Firefox Accounts project check out: [https://fxa.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ fxa.readthedocs.io/en/latest/]
==== User Impact of XSS Filters within Web Browsers ====
