On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 17:01 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 16:42 +0100, Jo Vermeulen wrote: > > > I needed this for a research-oriented project I am working on with a > > couple of last year students. > > In case your university is interested in participating int he Summer Of > Code 2007, of Google, it's possible that a project based on tinymail or > that does something interesting with tinymail would be accepted. I'm not sure, but it might be a good initiative to start with :-) I'll ask around here, and if anything comes out of it, I'll let you know! > Some examples: some user interfaces for, for example, ePaper displays > (iRex, Polymer Vision, etc), For the One Laptop Per Child project, for > mobile phones, ... Or integration with other applications like, indeed > Gimmie or Tomboy. With other frameworks like Telepathy and Galago (VoIP > and Presence). > > E-mail as a service, would be another good research subject for which > the tinymail design could be made suitable (or, already is, since > everything is an interface .. you can use remote proxy for this). > > I of course have plenty of non-research ideas too. Things that are > really to do (and often are this subjects that certain companies are > actually willing to pay for, though I can't easily give you a list on > that here). > > Most of the subjects aren't really doable in less than 7 days. Well, for a SoC project that doesn't really matter. The time limit of 7 days was because this was a small project for a course that had been scheduled on 7 days for 3 students. > ps. I'm not very interested in mentoring students that, for example, > only want to think about "how a MUA user interface would look like". No, > the student would have to "implement" that user interface too :) Well, our Master in Human-Computer Interaction is pretty technical, so it's not all cognitive science and usability testing ;-) Cheers, -- Jo Vermeulen Expertise Centre for Digital Media - Hasselt University Wetenschapspark 2 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium tel: +32 (0)11 268411 email: jo vermeulen uhasselt be http://jozilla.net/
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