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+{% extends "common/base.j2" %}
+{% block body_content %}
+<main id="maincontent">
+  <div class="container">
+    <h1>{{ _("Project ideas")}}</h1>
+    <p>
+        This page lists various ideas for projects related to GNU Taler
+        that might be suitable for the right person to work on, possibly
+        under an <a href="https://nlnet.nl/propose">NLnet NGI Open Call</a>.
+        For each idea, we give a rough estimate for how long it is expected
+        to take and how difficult it should be.
+    </p>
+    <h2>{{ _("Open")}}</h2>
+    <ul>
+    <li>Update Pretix integration to latest Taler APIs, making use of the
+        newly added support for WebHooks and using refunds, possibly via
+        the rewards API (120h, moderate difficulty)</li>
+    <li>Integrate Taler with Adobe e-commerce (aka Magento), including
+        configuring backend access, payment and refunds (240h, moderate difficulty)</li>
+    <li>Extend the Point-of-Sale App with multi-currency support. The
+        configuration should specify multiple currencies and their conversion
+        rate. During payment, the user should be given the choice of currency
+        to pay with. (30h, easy)</li>
+    <li>Extend the Point-of-Sale App with optional support for product previews,
+        allowing items to be shown to be populated from the backend inventory and
+        showing images of the products based on inventory data. (30h, easy)</li>
+    <li>Implement a Web-based generator for the JSON configuration file
+        of the Point-of-Sale App (60h, easy)</li>
+    <li>Extend the Point-of-Sale App with the ability to enter a table number
+        (for restaurants), and include the table in the contract terms. Implement
+        a second app that shows active orders to kitchen staff and allows them
+        to mark orders as completed. (300h, moderate difficulty)</li>
+    <li>Add self-service Web frontend to the merchant backend that allows
+        non-admin visitors to order (and pay for) the creation of
+        merchant instances hosted by a (trusted) merchant backend provider.
+        This should make it trivial for non-technical users to sign up at
+        a merchant backend hoster to obtain an instance at that hoster.
+        The Web frontend should collect contact information, warn the user
+        if their service agreement is about to expire, and delete (and
+        eventually purge) instances for which the payment has expired.
+        (600h, moderate difficulty)</li>
+    <li>Implement a currency conversion service by enhancing the merchant
+        backend to allow a wallet to pay with one currency for signatures
+        on blindly signed tokens in another currency. (300h, hard)</li>
+    <li>Add the merchant backend database plugin that supports sqlite3. (600h, tedious)</li>
+    <li>Add sales analytics (how many products are sold when)
+        to the merchant backend (120h, easy)</li>
+    <li>Add merchant backend inventory alerts (Webhooks that fire when inventory falls below
+        certain thresholds) to the merchant backend (60h, easy).</li>
+    <li>Add exchange command-line tool to re-encrypt exchange KYC attributes to a different
+        symmetric key to enable changing the encryption key (for example,
+        when it was accidentally disclosed). (60h, easy)</li>
+    <li>Implement improved coin-selection algorithm in wallet-core
+        that is better at minimizing state size and customer fees,
+        and spends coins before they would require a refresh (to prevent expiration).
+        (300h, hard)</li>
+    <li>Implement wallet-based fee simulator to compute STEFAN curve parameters given
+        a fee structure and a target confidence interval. (300h, hard)</li>
+    <li>See <a href="https://bugs.taler.net/">our bugtracker</a> for further ideas.</li>
+    </ul>
+    <-- h2>{{ _("Claimed")}}</h2>
+    <ul>
+    <li></li>
+    </ul -->
+    <-- h2>{{ _("Finished")}}</h2>
+    <ul>
+    <li></li>
+    </ul -->
+
+  </div>
+{% endblock body_content %}