feat: Introduce 2025 cohort idea list (#29)

* feat: Introduce 2025 cohort idea list * fix: Improve the idea list Signed-off-by: Shinyzenith <[email protected]> * fix: add new mentor and colons Signed-off-by: Shinyzenith <[email protected]> --------- Signed-off-by: Shinyzenith <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Shinyzenith <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/content/outreach/gsoc/2025/contributor-proposal-guidance.md b/content/outreach/gsoc/2025/contributor-proposal-guidance.md
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+---
+title: Contributor proposal guidance
+---
+
+Hi! Thank you for considering to contribute to the Waycrate organization!
+
+This page will document the general structure of your GSoC proposal.
+
+## Proposal structure:
+
+1. Contact Information
+1. Project Proposal Brief
+1. Résumé / CV 
+1. Related Experience
+1. Why GSoC with Waycrate?
+1. Proposal
+    - Motivation
+    - Detailed description
+    - Project timeline plan
+1. Prior commitments and availability
+
+---
+
+- Once you’ve selected a project assignment from the ideas page, please include a well-defined, weekly schedule with clear milestones and deliverables around it.
+
+- Alternatively, if you **want to propose your own idea** then please include _outline_, _goals_, and a _well-defined weekly schedule_ with _clear milestones_ and _deliverables_ **after a discussion** with Waycrate.
+
+---
+
+- Apart from the above guidelines, the official [Google documentation](https://google.github.io/gsocguides/student/writing-a-proposal) can prove helpful.
+
+## Optionals
+
+Feel free to answer these questions as an optional section to your proposal:
+
+1. As mentors and project coordinators, how can we best facilitate your progress?
diff --git a/content/outreach/gsoc/2025/idea-list.md b/content/outreach/gsoc/2025/idea-list.md
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+---
+title: GSoC 2025 cohort idea list
+---
+
+## Idea 1: Introduce [ext_image_capture_source_v1](https://wayland.app/protocols/ext-image-capture-source-v1#ext_image_capture_source_v1) protocol support in Wayshot and improve security features
+
+### Possible Mentors:
+
+- Rachancheet Singh Kohli (rachancheet37 [at] gmail.com)
+- Aakash Sen Sharma (aakashsensharma [at] gmail.com)
+- Ishan Joshi (joshiishan246890 [at] gmail.com)
+
+### Difficulty: Hard
+### Project Size: Large (350 Hours)
+### Pre-requisite Skills: Rust, Wayland Protocols ( Optional )
+
+### Description:
+
+The ext_image_capture_source_v1 protocol has recently been introduced to Wayland, providing a standardized method for display and top-level window capture.
+Wayshot currently supports CPU-based and GPU-based capture over wlr-screencopy protocol which is non-standard. Adopting the official protocol offers toplevel capture capabilities natively and improves the user experience.
+
+This idea aims to introduce a new backend and turn the wlr backend into a legacy codebase for backwards compatibility.
+Due to the existence of this standardized protocol, we can now also provide extra *security* to users and denote over dbus notifications when a particular app-id is being recorded by wayshot clients.
+
+### Expected Outcomes:
+
+- Introduction of new standardized protocol and *security features* to denote when toplevels are recorded by clients.
+- Integration of the same protocol to xdg-desktop-portal-luminous to enable standardized WebRTC streaming.
+
+## Idea 2: Introduce libinput backend to SWHKD to improve keyboard detection and security heuristics
+
+### Possible Mentors:
+
+- Ishan Joshi (joshiishan246890 [at] gmail.com)
+- Aakash Sen Sharma (aakashsensharma [at] gmail.com)
+
+### Difficulty: Medium
+### Project Size: Medium (175 Hours)
+### Skills: Rust
+
+### Description:
+
+Currently SWHKD uses the linux kernel evdev module to read keyboards and has very simplistic heuristics for device detection that is not ideal and prone to errors.
+Due to these heuristics SWHKD in some scenarios may capture kernel events from devices that are *NOT* meant to be grabbed.
+
+Evdev also requires a very complex security model to work with to ensure proper execution and we hope libinput helps us resolve some of that.
+
+This can be avoided by a more restricted libinput API and can significantly reduce code complexity.
+This would also vastly enhance the UX of the project at the cost of reduced capabilities but that can be avoided by a feature flag during build time.
+
+_PS: Due to space constraints we are unable to list out all the advantages & disadvantages of evdev. If you'd be interested in those details, feel free to contact the listed possible mentors._
+
+### Expected Outcomes:
+
+- Introduction of new libinput API for improved UX
+
+## Idea 3: Introduce RDP support into xdg-desktop-portal-luminous
+
+### Possible Mentors:
+
+- Decodetalkers (chenhongtao12345678 [at] gmail.com)
+- Aakash Sen Sharma (aakashsensharma [at] gmail.com)
+
+### Difficulty: Medium-ish (leaning towards hard)
+### Project Size: Medium (175 Hours)
+### Skills: Rust
+
+### Description:
+
+Xdg-desktop-portal-luminous is a high performance capture portal for wayland compositors that supports frame capture and gpu-copy based frame streaming. The goal of this idea is to introduce support for remote-desktop protocol to enable applications like teamviewer and anydesk to work seamlessly on wayland compositors using our custom portal backends.
+
+This will improve adoption and UX, users will no longer need to depend on other portals for this particular usecase and all usecases can be consolidated into 1 portal.
+
+### Expected Outcomes:
+
+- Introduction of RDP support to luminous portal.
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