April 2013 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] Apply for GSOC 2013 under openSUSE News Planet
by Visitha Baddegama 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

Hi All, I'm Visitha Baddegama, a final year undergraduate from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. This time I'm planning to contribute openSUSE organization under Google Summer of Code 2013. I am fluent in Java, C# languages, and Web technologies. And I was a student of GSOC 2012 under the DocBook project[1] and sucessfully completed it[2]. By working on that project I got knowledge in technologies like XSLT, XML, JavaScript, HTML, Ant, Make, JQuery and CSS. I went through the GSOC 2013 idea page[3] of OpenSuse and found very interesting project "openSUSE News/Planet on Android". I have a lot of experience in Android and Phonegap apps development and during my internship period at IronOne technologies, I developed advanced Android and Phonegap apps too. I have huge eager to apply to this project and I have a good confidence that I can successfully complete this project and give my whole strength to this project. I have discussed with Manu Gupta who is going to mentor this project and convinced him about new features which are I am going to add additionally to this project. And I warmly welcome any advices and guidance from you to improve my knowledge in this project. Thanks in Advance..!! [1]. http://docbook.org/ [2]. http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/docbook [3]. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_ideas -- Visitha Warna Baddegama Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Moratuwa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Greece: FOSSCOMM conference and release party in Athens
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

Hello Ambies and Lizzards all over the world... Next week (April 20-21) we'll have our annual Greek FOSS Communities conference in Athens. We prepare our participation. We'll have a booth and 3 presentations (including the #oSC13). Right now we're doing the booth logistics. For more information about preparations check out the wiki page [1]. Since we'll be in Athens, we planned a release party there. Our Hackerspace friends, provide their space (and beers) and we'll bring everything else. For more information about it, check out our connect [2] announcement (in Greek). At the bottom, there are facebook and plus events. Next week, I'll be back with report and pictures from both events. Have phun, Stathis [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:FOSSCOMM2013 [2] http://bit.ly/125byTY -- http://about.me/iosifidis http://eiosifidis.blogspot.gr http://blogs.gnome.org/eiosifidis Great leaders don't tell you what to do... They show you how it's done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Fwd: GSoC 2013 openSUSE Android app
by Prathamesh Karve 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

Hi, I am a third year BTech student from VJTI, Mumbai. Would love to contribute to the community through the Android app. I have been working on Android for almost a more than a year now and have worked on a number of innovative apps. Two of them published on the Play Store can be found here https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=R-on-Droid#?t=W251bGwsbnVsb….. A bit late to post here, but from my discussions till now with my mentor Manu Gupta, I intend to implement the following: The Planets, News and Lizards sections with RSS reader and WebViews. Notifications to users about recent posts as and when they get posted. I have the experience of implementing both of the above in an app I developed. Have begun work on bringing these and other functionalities of the website to the app. Any suggestions are welcome, Thanks and regards, Prathamesh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Interested in GSOC 2013
by Umang Kedia 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

Hi Manu, This email is in reference to GSOC 2013 idea mentioned on your page. I am 4th year Computer Science student from BITS Pilani, India. I am proficient in Java and I have experience with building Android applications. I developed an Android app for my college fest which was a simple RSS reader to notify people about the events during college fest. Apart from that I have great interest in Algorithms, computer networks and operating systems. I constantly take part in online coding competitions. I am also proficient in C, PHP, JavaScript and MySQL. I developed a quizzing website for my college's annual fest which was based on PHP and JavaScript. Regarding the app, how can we access the data from openSuse planet. Means is there any RSS feed generated for each activity or do I have to get the data directly from the server. Also, it would be better if we use Phonegap and jQuery UI for developing the app since it would be cumbersome to include web data in Native android app. Please contact me for further details. Also, I am applying to GSOC for the first time, so kindly mail me if I am missing anything. I am really interested to work on this project. If needed I will contact you on IRC. EDIT: I discussed with Manu regarding Phonegap and jQuery UI. Phonegap is good option but webView can also be used as other Android apps like Quora and Facebook use them very nicely. Both will be able to interact with Native android sdk. I will research more about them. Thank you. -- Umang Kedia Student, BITS Pilani-Hyderabad Campus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] interest in contributing to the opensuse news android app
by Shivam Bhalla 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

hi, my name is Shivam Bhalla and i am a second year student of computer science. i am very passionate about mobile app development for android and am interested in participating in gsoc 2013 with opensuse as my organisation of preference. i am interested in working on the opensuse news app on android. some of the ideas that i propose for this app are 1. an rss feed where the user can swipe using view pager between various news such as recent topics , top rated topics etc 2. the topics will be presented in an interactive list with users being able to expand every item to a full view on touching 3. on opening a particular item, i intend to integrate the app with facebook like and share as well as tweet functionality among others. this can be presented in two ways-: a. using a sliding drawer at the bottom for sharing across various platforms b. using contextual action bar switching on long press with options to share.(using actionbar sherlock library) 4. i also plan to include an elaborate login and settings view by which, the user can create an account and also, using settings, decide how often the feed is to be updated etc. 5. another feature which this app could have is opensuse info, by which, newbies to the opensuse world and students can know about various suites available on the OS and how it is analogous to something that they have used before. 6. other UI features which i could possibly include are daydreams screensaver for posts display in sleep mode, or homescreen/lockscreen widgets etc. s please let me know your opinion on these ideas as well as any suggestions that you may have regarding them. many thanks Shivam Bhalla -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-project] Introducing myself for GSoC 2013. Idea - Discussion System for the Open Build Service
by Shayon Mukherjee 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

On Apr 11, 2013, at 7:47 PM, Sujit Karatparambil <sujit.kmadhavan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Shayon Mukherjee <opensuse(a)shayon.me> wrote: > Hello All, > > I am Shayon Mukherjee. I am an openSUSE member and have been contributing to openSUSE on and off mostly. I started with openSUSE when I was 16 and have been a FOSS and an opeSUSE boy for a long time now. Whether its school, college or a bar I try to spread the word as much as I can. And if I can, I try to contribute some code to openSUSE as well. My recent contributions to openSUSE has been towards the openSUSE summit and conference websites (although they are much better now from what i started :). Feel free to look up the openSUSE github repos. > > Moving on to GSoC 2013. I am really interested in contributing and hacking on the openSUSE's GSOC 2013 Idea - Discussion System for the Open Build Service. I share the same belief as my mentors, that having a commenting or a feedback system implemented to the roots of OBS will very much help with people working with OBS. > > How is it different from pastebin or susepaste(http://paste.opensuse.org/) I am not sure if I understand you right. The idea here is to implement a system which gives the users in obs, the flexibility to discuss about the ongoing matters. Maybe a little centralised depending on how the architectures persists. Pastebin is something entirely different from this. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Fwd: [opensuse-project] Google Summer Of Code 2013- Request From Anurag
by Sujit Karatparambil 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sujit Karatparambil <sujit.kmadhavan(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:40 AM Subject: Re: [opensuse-project] Google Summer Of Code 2013- Request From Anurag To: Anurag <coolanuragdzxj(a)gmail.com> Cc: opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Anurag <coolanuragdzxj(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > BACKGROUND OF PROJECT > I m Anurag , BE First Year Student Of CSE at Bangalore. I m currently working on an android app of mine and I m looking for some opportunity to work for open source community. > I can design the UI of opens SUSE News/Planet on Android in such a way that it will be highly responsive , fluid and attractive of course. I can also do the coding for the app as I can use Intents,Services,BroadcastReceivers,Handler ,thread,Fragments,etc . > > IDEA (DEVELOPER CONSOLE):- > I came up with an idea that this app must have a separate column for the suse developers where they can login with their username and password and post some thread or they can discuss some ideas with other developers on the go as android device is common tool of any developer. > > IDEA (COMMON USER LOOKOUT):- > I would also like to add login support for common user of suse.They can login with their own unique username and password synced with their suse pc. After they are logged in they could be able to see all the packages installed in their system, any update available for any package or not .This android app should also show the top, most downloaded package on suse. > > IDEA (BRINGING NEW USERS):- > There must be another column that reflects the brightness of suse to a person who haven’t used suse till now. This app will demonstrate the remarkable features of suse who are unknown to suse and it will surely attract them towards suse. > Seems to be a good idea. But why are you coding a new app. Why cannot you support a SUSE News/Planet on browser and write a app to open this with customization which are what the app supports. > > > MY WORKS > As I mentioned above I am currently working on my own android app , I would like to show you the glimpse of my app .Since my coding is still going on ,it have some bugs and lacks some function but it is a matter of time I will make it complete. > My app is a FileManager type app which is capable of taking backup of installed apps and can perform some basic file operations like deletion,etc.The whole app of mine is being coded on FragmentActivity And Fragments. My app can run on Android 1.6 to Android 4.1.2. I have also used the external library for my current project. > ** For Best results Use android device having screen size 4 inch and resolution 480x800. > I have included my apk link , if you wish you can see my work. http://hotfile.com/links/202179406/ab7d94e/UltimateTasker.apk > But seems to be complicated. > > BENEFIT > If I get a chance to work with suse community ,definitely I am gonna to be benefited as suse is open source community and they are always ready to share knowledge with others. I will try my best even if it takes the eternity to benefit suse community with my work somehow.About 2 years back I started to work on Ubuntu and then onwards I totally migrated from windows to Linux OS. > > TECHNICAL DETAILS > The person should have knowledge about Android API’s,Java,XML. If suse is impressed with my idea of “Developer Console” and “Common User Lookout” , then to implement them in an android app ,suse needs to provide their own API for android or any External Library , that’s what I believe. > > WHY ME > i) If I am having a mentor guiding me throughout this course of 3 months I will surely complete this app . > ii) I am great fan of open source terminology and I always wanted to work with them anyhow and I will myself make my app open to all. > iii) Whatever project is proposed by your side ,it is within my limits of coding . > iv) If get a chance to work with you I will gain something and again I future I will come up with more ideas and more programming skills. > > LONG TERM PLAN > I am really excited to work on long term basis with suse of any other open source community if I get a chance. After the GSOC 2013 I would like to continue this project own my own for suse until it becomes the ace . Even though if GSOC ends I will continue working on android and if I work on an android app of suse for long term basis I will definitely get the support for your side and will boost my skill as well as I will be able to contribute more. > CONTACT > Email:- coolanuragdzxj(a)gmail.com > Mobile No:- +918892471328 > I would like to get response from your side on my project as soon as possible so that I will prepare myself, > Thanking you in anticipation. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] GSoC Map application for ownCloud
by Pankaj Kumar Sharma 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Hey, I am interested in OpenSUSE GSoC idea "Map application for ownCloud". Therefore I request the mentors and co-mentors to please brief me the idea and expectations related to this project idea. PS: In mean while I'm familiarizing myself with ownCloud. Thanks and Regards, -- Pankaj Kumar Sharma | पंकज कुमार शर्मा Jamia Millia Islamia -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Interested in GSOC 2013
by Umang Kedia 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

Hi Manu, This email is in reference to GSOC 2013 idea mentioned on your page. I am 4th year Computer Science student from BITS Pilani, India. I am proficient in Java and I have experience with building Android applications. I developed an Android app for my college fest which was a simple RSS reader to notify people about the events during college fest. Apart from that I have great interest in Algorithms, computer networks and operating systems. I constantly take part in online coding competitions. I am also proficient in C, PHP, JavaScript and MySQL. I had also developed a quizzing website for my college's annual fest which was based on PHP and JavaScript. Regarding the app, how can we access the data from openSuse planet. Means is there any RSS feed generated for each activity or do I have to get the data directly from the server. Also, it would be better if we use Phonegap and jQuery UI for developing the app since it would be cumbersome to include web data in Native android app. Please contact me for further details. Also, I am applying to GSOC for the first time, so kindly mail me if I am missing anything. I am really interested to work on this project. If needed I will contact you on IRC. I discussed with Manu regarding Phonegap and jQuery UI. Phonegap is good option but webView can also be used as other Android apps like Quora and Facebook use them very nicely. Both will be able to interact with Native android sdk. I will research more about them. -- Umang Kedia Student, BITS Pilani-Hyderabad Campus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Introducing myself for GSoC 2013. Idea - Discussion System for the Open Build Service
by Shayon Mukherjee 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

Hello All, I am Shayon Mukherjee. I am an openSUSE member and have been contributing to openSUSE on and off mostly. I started with openSUSE when I was 16 and have been a FOSS and an opeSUSE boy for a long time now. Whether its school, college or a bar I try to spread the word as much as I can. And if I can, I try to contribute some code to openSUSE as well. My recent contributions to openSUSE has been towards the openSUSE summit and conference websites (although they are much better now from what i started :). Feel free to look up the openSUSE github repos. Moving on to GSoC 2013. I am really interested in contributing and hacking on the openSUSE's GSOC 2013 Idea - Discussion System for the Open Build Service. I share the same belief as my mentors, that having a commenting or a feedback system implemented to the roots of OBS will very much help with people working with OBS. Now a little about me- Age - 20 School - California State University Majors - B.S Computer Science Year - Junior (3rd year) Languages and Frameworks I work with but are not limited to - Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, PostgreSQL ,SQLite, Jquery, JS, Git, HTLM5 and CSS3. Also, I hold the ability and passion to learn new things. Since one of the major requirements of the GSoC idea is Ruby on Rails, thats what I will talk about now. I have been coding for a long time and have moved to Ruby and Ruby on rails recently. I have created custom content management systems from scratch with Rails, have had experience developing real time apps with rails, plus I have helped couple of startups built their MVP with rails as well. One of my recent projects on rails is http://tagport.herokuapp.com. Feel free to check it out, it helps user monitor hashtags from twitter and Instagram under one hood. On a side note, I have had experience working with MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite along side the apps I mentioned as well. As for my work experience goes, I have worked as a student technology assistant at the Learning Technology Center of University of Wisconsin Green Bay (October 2010 - December 2012). I have also interned as a Web Application Developer at the Richard Mauthe Centre, USA. That is all for my introduction if the mentors or anyone else have any questions or queries please feel free to get in touch with me. P.S This is just an introduction. Proposal, comes a little later ;). Cheers! Shayon Mukherjee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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