[Fwd: Re: Community Service]

[Dave Neary <dneary free fr>]

Hi all,

I have been talking to Andrew Case about his community service, and he's 
come up with a couple of ideas for projects he would be interested in 
taking on.

He needs a mentor to give him some entry points and advice, and let us 
know that he's done the hours (approximately) that he has to do. It's 
been cleared with his probation officer already, and it's a good way to 
get him to repay his debt by doing good for the world :)

Anyone prepared to take him under their wing for a project to do with 
Evolution? He's on a deadline, since he has also lined up a fall-back 
project, and needs to give them an answer by next Wednesday one way or 
another.

Thanks,
Dave.

--
David Neary
bolsh gimp org

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• From: Andrew Case <case andrew gmail com>
• To: Dave Neary <dneary free fr>
• Subject: Re: Community Service
• Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:36:36 -0400

Dave,

Below are some of the ideas I've come up with.  Let me know what you
think as soon as you can, I'd like to start working on one of these as
soon as possible.  I think I would prefer to work on Feeding Evolution,
but I think I would find the other two almost as fulfilling.



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Subject: "Service proposal: Feeding Evolution"
Andrew case (acase thoughtcatalyst com)
Feeding Evolution

Synopsis
   I want to add rss feed support and blog capabilities into
evolution.   

Goals
   Evolution is a great tool for reading email, setting up my schedule,
making task lists, storing my contacts.  In short this is a great tool
for keeping me informed/up to date electronically.  But rss feeds are
something that I'd like to keep track of just as much as I keep track of
my email.  Not only that, I'd like to see my feeds presented very
similar to my email.  I would like to have rss reading and writing
implemented inside of evolution such that reading all your subscribed
feeds and posting your own blog/feed is as easy as reading and writing
email.  I want to implement this system inside evolution.

Project Details
   There are two tools that I know of that work with gnome to do blog
postings.  The gnome-blog applet which is very simple but very quick to
use, and BloGTK which is much more complex tool for publishing your
blog.  For blog reading, evolution had a development test extension for
evolution called brainread that was being developed by Dan Winship at
novell.  Unfortunately it appears as though it is no longer being
maintained and it does not work with any version of evolution past 2.0 .
I want to take what I can from all these tools and implement them as a
new extension for evolution.  I was planning to break these into stages
for development.
Stage 0) Hash through brainread and evolution learning how the code
integrates.
Stage 1) Updating brainread to work with the newer evolution.
Stage 2) Integration improvements between brainread and evolution.
Stage 3) Write blog posting ability into the brainfeed extension.
Stage 4) Integration improvements between brainfeed and evolution.

Project Schedule
   This project will probably take quite a long time, as I am unfamiliar
with how evolutions software is setup and it appears to be a very
complex system.  But this is good because I have lots of time to work on
it.  I am uncomfortable giving a time estimate until I start really
sifting through the code.  I would like to get started as soon as we can
get this project approved and I can get a mentor. 

Motivation
   I am a blogger.  And I read lots of other peoples' blogs.  However, I
have not found a way to do it that I am satisfied with.  I think
evolution is the perfect place to implement this system and would love
this feature in future evolution builds.





or...

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Subject: "Service proposal: Evolution Publishing"
Andrew case (acase thoughtcatalyst com)
Evolution Publishing

Synopsis
   Adding a standard way to publish data that we store in Evolution.
This is an extension of
http://www.gnome.org/bounties/Calendar.html#127538 and
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127538 since that appears to
being very close to completion.

Goals
   Extend calendar publishing to the rest of evolution such as tasks.
It might be worth considering having a publishing ability for mail and
contacts as well just it's up to the user to make sure if they publish
it to a website that it is as secure as desired.  This would enhance the
productive ability of evolution to help people syncronize their data by
providing a way to publish data to an xml(?) file that can be easily
used to produce a website with their data from any computer that has
access to the publication.

Project Details
   Provide export feature that can be automated or manually run to
publish your data into an xml file or published straight to a website.
Each item, all items, or selections of items could be marked as
"publish"(public or private) to determine whether to publicize it or
not.

Project Schedule
   This project will probably take quite a long time, as I am unfamiliar
with how evolutions software is setup and it appears to be a very
complex system.  But this is good because I have lots of time to work on
it.  I am uncomfortable giving a time estimate until I start really
sifting through the code.  I would like to get started as soon as we can
get this project approved and I can get a mentor. 

Motivation
   I think this would be a feature that would be nice for people to
check their schedule, tasks, email, contacts, etc. from anywhere at
anytime.  That way evolution could continue running and provide me with
all my data on my phone, at work, at school via the web.  Great for the
wife, if she wanted to check your schedule to try and plan something
when you're not around.





or...

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Another idea I had last minute:

Web based file system interaction through gnome/apache.  Reach your
files from anywhere via, gnome and apache.  Similar to publishing in
evolution, but available for all(as much as you want) of your home
directory through nautilus or a new application!


--
Andrew


On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 16:43 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Luis Villa wrote:
> > OSSI is the only thing I can think of offhand, though I know we at one
> > point had a relationship with SPI, and I know there is at least one
> > other I'm blanking on at the moment.
> 
> There's the UK based Open Source Consortium, but they seem to have 
> disappeared off the face of the earth (at least, they're not answering 
> their mails). Seems a GNOME presentation to a working group they're 
> involved in didn't go too well because of a communication problem.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave.
> 

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