| 30 | | AlternC was mainly developped by individuals who were willing to help the opensource community, but it is now also sponsored by a few French companies featured on alternc.org. |
| 31 | | |
| 32 | | We would like to become a mentoring organization for the Google Summer Of Code. We always have interesting new ideas and projects in the field of web hosting services (advanced mail, jabber,etc.) and we wish to expand our project of user-friendly free software for mass hosting. |
| 33 | | |
| 34 | | I am one of the four creators of the project. You can contact me directly, or contact the developer team by sending an email at team@alternc.org. |
| 35 | | |
| 36 | | My Google account is sonntagb (@gmail.com) |
| 37 | | |
| 38 | | Best regards, |
| 39 | | |
| 40 | | '''Benjamin Sonntag''' |
| 41 | | '''AlternC core team.''' |
| 42 | | |
| 43 | | |
| 44 | | ---- |
| 45 | | |
| 46 | | |
| 47 | | ''PS: more information follows about our project's status :'' |
| 48 | | |
| 49 | | For now, we created the following packages : |
| 50 | | * AlternC. The core project, that automatically configures the services (web, mail, web stats, dns service, multilingual web interface for hosting managment etc.) |
| 51 | | * AlternC-mailman. Allow any user to manage mailman mailing lists from its web interface |
| 52 | | * AlternC-awstats. Add awstats statistic managment from the web interface |
| 53 | | * AlternC-slavedns. Add the slave dns managment for the slave bind server |
| 54 | | * AlternC-procmailbuilder. Allow the user to define server-side mail filtering from its webmail. |
| 55 | | * squirrelmail-addressbook. Replaces the standard addressbook of the webmail to provide user with an addreesbook similar to thunderbird one. |
| 56 | | |
| 57 | | The following projects should be packaged soon (some are working when using svn source) : |
| 58 | | * addressbook-sync. A plugin for thunderbird to synchronize the addressbook with the client. |
| 59 | | * mailfilter-sync. Another plugin to synchronize the server-side and client-side mail filters. |
| 60 | | |
| | 38 | * #259 - SCP/SFTP access management (difficulty: hard, skills: PHP coding, shell scripting, PAM and Debian configuration, security knowledge) |
| | 39 | * #264 - SSH access management (same as above) |
| | 40 | * #1030 - SSL vhost management and IP pool management (difficulty: hard, skills: PHP coding, shell scripting, Apache configuration, security) |
| | 41 | * #251 - SuexecPHP host seperation (difficulty: medium, skills: apache configuration), actual objective: create a demonstration virtual server with: |
| | 42 | * pam_mysql (see also #191) |
| | 43 | * nss_mysql |
| | 44 | * vhost configuration in MySQL or generated virtual hosts (see also #429) |
| | 45 | * virtual hosts must be ran in seperate users |
| | 46 | * adequate file permissions |
| | 47 | * #773 - on-demand backups (difficulty: medium, skills: PHP, shell scripting, voodoo) |
| | 48 | * #1017 - apache2 support (difficulty: medium, skills: debian packaging, apache configuration, shell scripting) |
| | 49 | * IPv6 support: |
| | 50 | * #483 - AAAA support (difficulty: medium, skills: bind configuration, shell scripting, voodoo) |
| | 51 | * IP pool management (difficulty: medium, skills: shell scripting, PHP, hard thinking) |
| | 52 | * #564 - between-account transfers (difficulty: medium, skills: XML, PHP, standardisation) (we've actually talked of creating a standard for hosting providers to have a meta-format to transfer generic account information (emails, FTP account and domain configuration, etc), this task would be to actually write up that spec and some code that would go with it) |
| | 53 | * #621 - password reminder support (difficulty: easy, skills: PHP) |
