The mission of the Mozilla Project is to preserve choice and innovation on the Internet. We are the producer and provider of the award-winning Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email software. We are an advocate for open standards on the Net, and provide tools for developing standard web content. We also provide software development tools used by hundreds of free software projects worldwide.

SoC opportunities are available to work on Firefox, Thunderbird, Camino, SeaMonkey, Fennec (mobile), Rhino (JavaScript engine in Java), our IT infrastructure, localization and other areas of  the project, using a wide variety of technologies. There's something for everyone.

First, see: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2006/05/how_not_to_apply_for_summer_of.html
for some things not to do.

The following template may help, but it is not compulsory that you use it.
 
*Personal Details*

•  Name:
•  Email:
•  Other contact methods:

*Project Proposal*

What do you plan to do?
 
Also describe any work or research on this project you have already done.

*Schedule of Deliverables*

What are the milestones and deliverables for your project? You will be assessed against these.

Do you have any other commitments during this time?

*Open Source Development Experience*

Any experience you have, even a few bug reports or some tiny 2-line patch to something obscure.

*Work/Internship Experience*

Anything relevant to the project, or related to browsers, web design or software development.

*Academic Experience*

What you're studying in university/college (even if it doesn't seem relevant), and how you're doing.

*Why Mozilla*

Tell us why you chose to apply to us.