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[Dms-commit] Changes to gnomejournal/SoC/SoCInterviews.txt
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Julien Gilli |
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[Dms-commit] Changes to gnomejournal/SoC/SoCInterviews.txt |
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Sun, 28 Aug 2005 16:32:42 -0400 |
Index: gnomejournal/SoC/SoCInterviews.txt
diff -u gnomejournal/SoC/SoCInterviews.txt:1.6
gnomejournal/SoC/SoCInterviews.txt:1.7
--- gnomejournal/SoC/SoCInterviews.txt:1.6 Sun Aug 28 18:41:47 2005
+++ gnomejournal/SoC/SoCInterviews.txt Sun Aug 28 20:32:42 2005
@@ -1,43 +1,49 @@
-Google Summer of Code is over ! It's time for us to unveil all the GNOME
goodies that came out of it. In this article, you'll learn about streaming and
sharing some music with your GAIM buddys, hidding your personal data from
others by encrypting folders in one click from nautilus, using your webcam and
your head as an input device and much more !
+Google Summer of Code is over. It's time for us to unveil all the GNOME
goodies that came out of it. In this article, you'll learn about streaming and
sharing some music with your GAIM buddies, hiding your personal data from
others by encrypting folders in one click from nautilus, using your web cam
and your head as an input device and much more !
-Google sponsored four hundred students to work on OpenSource projects like
GNOME, Apache, PERL, and KDE during this summer. Students submitted
applications to Google by the middle of June. Then mentors from the most active
OpenSource related organizations (RedHat, The Perl Foundation, etc.) selected
and mentored the ones that had the best potential. Of course, GNOME fans and
mentors had a lot of ideas for students to work on.
+Google sponsored four hundred students to work on OpenSource projects like
GNOME, Apache, PERL, and KDE during this summer. Students submitted
applications to Google by the middle of June. Then mentors from the most active
Open Source related organizations (Red Hat, The Perl Foundation, etc.) selected
and mentored the ones that had the best potential. Of course, GNOME fans and
mentors had a lot of ideas for students to work on.
-The GNOME Foundation has mentored eleven students. They all worked on new
features that, for the most part, have not been worked on before. By now, most
of them have a working implementation of what was planned at the beginning of
the summer. The projects' domains range from music sharing integrated to the
desktop to live edition and versionning of developer documentation. There's
even a firefox extension that will help you to share tips for mastering google
searches.
+The GNOME Foundation has mentored eleven students. They all worked on new
features that, for the most part, have not been worked on before. By now, most
of them have a working implementation of what was planned at the beginning of
the summer. The projects' domains range from music sharing integrated to the
desktop to live edition and version control of developer documentation. There's
even a Firefox extension that will help you to share tips for mastering google
searches.
Be sure to read on to know all about the new GNOME bits offered by this summer
of code.
-On the music integration to the GNOME desktop side, two projects made their
way through the Google application process : shared music spaces in gaim and
playlists sharing with RythmBox.
-
-The first one was carried on by the very enthusiastic Raphael Slinckx. The
initial plan was to allow people to stream music from and to their GAIM buddys
in one click. As if it would not be enough to make it a must-have, "the project
is a bit different from the submitted application proposal, especially
concerning rhythmbox integration which was not planned initially.". As for now,
"The application has reached a point where it works when the situation is
perfect" You can see the result from his work in the following screenshots :
+On the music integration to the GNOME desktop side, two projects made their
way through the Google application process : shared music spaces in Gaim and
play lists sharing with RhythmBox.
+The first one was carried on by the very enthusiastic Raphael Slinckx. The
initial plan was to allow people to stream music from and to their GAIM buddies
in one click. As if it would not be enough to make it a must-have, "the project
is a bit different from the submitted application proposal, especially
concerning RhythmBox integration which was not planned initially.". As for now,
"The application has reached a point where it works when the situation is
perfect" You can see the result from his work in the following screenshots :
FIXME : screenshots
+The project is not finished yet. Raphael "plans to move to a better streaming
protocol when Gstreamer will be ready, and improving aspects such as
firewall/nat bypassing.". Indeed, the feature will only work "if you have a PC
directly connected to
+Internet or a UPNP capable router, and no firewall.". He has been "astonished
by the GNOME community", but found that "lacking, or even missing
documentation", was one of the biggest problems he faced. Connect, push up the
volume and share the music, it's as simple as it gets !
-The project is not finished yet. Raphael "plans to move to a better streaming
protocol when gstreamer will be ready, and improving aspects such as
firewall/nat byassing.". Indeed, the feature will only work "if you have a PC
directly connected to
-internet or a upnp capable router, and no firewall.". He has been "astonished
by the GNOME community", but found that "lacking, or even missing
documentation", was one of the biggest problems he faced. Connect, push up the
volume and share the music, it's as simple as it gets !
-
-Charles Schmidt has been responsible for giving the love needed to the birth
of the second music related project. As he says, "It's not just RhythmBox being
able to share playlists with iTunes, but also RB sharing its music to other RB
clients on the network". At first, he "had suggested doing this using a DAAP
module for GnomeVFS. So that you could hand GnomeVFS a URI like
"daap://Lyndsey's music" and it would return a directory full of music.". But
quickly enough, he "was convinced by others that the DAAP code should live
inside Rhythmbox, not in a GnomeVFS module.".
-So far, it "has definitely paid off", and he was able to "push out a patch
last night that other people were able to get working". Charles doesn't want to
stop here, he "definitely see himself continuing to work with the Rhythmbox
community to improve DAAP" and he's "thinking to tackle equalizer support
next". Even if he says that "Time management is a skill [he is] still lacking",
great things should be coming from him in the next weeks. Congrats !
+Charles Schmidt has been responsible for giving the love needed to the birth
of the second music related project. As he says, "It's not just RhythmBox being
able to share playlists with iTunes, but also RB sharing its music to other RB
clients on the network". At first, he "had suggested doing this using a DAAP
module for GNOME VFS. So that you could hand GnomeVFS a URI like
"daap://Lyndsey's music" and it would return a directory full of music.". But
quickly enough, he "was convinced by others that the DAAP code should live
inside RhythmBox, not in a GnomeVFS module.".
+So far, it "has definitely paid off", and he was able to "push out a patch
last night that other people were able to get working". Charles doesn't want to
stop here, he "definitely see himself continuing to work with the RhythmBox
community to improve DAAP" and he's "thinking to tackle equalizer support
next". Even if he says that "Time management is a skill [he is] still lacking",
great things should be coming from him in the next weeks. Congrats !
The core of the GNOME desktop has received a lot of attention too. Our
students pushed it to places where it hasn't been before. Mentored by Christian
Kellner, John Manning hacked the GNOME VFS layer to bring you encrypted folder
support out of the box.
FIXME
-Every GNOME user uses applets. Travis Vachon and Havoc Pennington, well known
for trying to put some simplicity into the GNOME desktop, worked on a easy way
to setup and publish panel applets : the panel bundles.
+Every GNOME user uses applets. Travis Vachon and Havoc Pennington, well known
for trying to put some simplicity into the GNOME desktop, worked on a easy way
to setup and publish panel applets : the panel bundles. "eliminating the need
to build tools and package maintainers was one of the main goals behind this
project", says Travis. So, even if he had "originally thought of the
extensions as written in either C or Python. The major problem [with C] is that
this would make it necessary to have build tools installed". Luckily, "Python
is a whole lot more fun to write, and allows a developer to really focus on the
neat stuff", says Travis.
+At first, Travis "had thought [he] would be creating a system to bundle up
current panel applets for distribution.", however
+"While many aspects of developing panel applets have carried over to the
extension system, it is, indeed, a new system.". Nevertheless, "converting a
current Python-coded applet to an extension is pretty simple, and will actually
simplify the code".
+Bundles can already be used without any addition to the GNOME desktop because
they "are currently being implemented through a container applet". However,
proper integration into the panel is, according to him, "a decent distance
away".
+Travis has been "particularly impressed by PyGTK, and all of the related GNOME
Python bindings". On the opposite, he says that "it would be nice to see [the
panel] improved". Indeed, "one original idea for the project was to be able to
click on a link to a bundle on the web site and have it appear somewhere on the
panel immediately.". When he tried to accomplish this, "it turned out this
wouldn't be possible with the current implementation of the panel".
+From now on, "there's a ton of work still to be done, from improving the
panel_extension Python module to integrating things into the panel and
translating things from Python to C to make them faster!".
+In the meantime, if you want to know more about bundles, you can check out the
tutorial Travis has wrote here : http://www.gnome.org/~tvachon/ .
FIXME.
-And now for something completely different, the usual suspects strike again,
sharing of google searches thanks to a firefox plugin.
+And now for something completely different, the usual suspects strike again,
sharing of google searches thanks to a Firefox plug-in.
-People often get stuck into unsuccessfull Google searches. Sanford is now able
to offer a way to overcome this situation. His Search Party Firefox extension
allows you to share search tips with people from all over the world. Type your
search on the google web site, click on the "Join Search Party" toolbar button,
and you are connected to an IRC-like server, being notified of other people's
successfull attempts at searching similar information.
-The project takes the form of a firefox extension on the client side. On the
server side, Sanford had "initially intended to write the Search Party Protocol
directly over TCP, and have a Java server somewhere that took care of matching
up users with the proper chat room, ". However, he changed his plans when Seth
Nickell "pointed out early on that this might make the extension unusable for
those behind various firewalls", and chose XML-RPC.
+People often get stuck into unsuccessful Google searches. Sanford is now able
to offer a way to overcome this situation. His Search Party Firefox extension
allows you to share search tips with people from all over the world. Type your
search on the Google web site, click on the "Join Search Party" toolbar button,
and you are connected to an IRC-like server, being notified of other people's
successful attempts at searching similar information.
+The project takes the form of a Firefox extension on the client side. On the
server side, Sanford had "initially intended to write the Search Party Protocol
directly over TCP, and have a Java server somewhere that took care of matching
up users with the proper chat room, ". However, he changed his plans when Seth
Nickell "pointed out early on that this might make the extension unusable for
those behind various firewalls", and chose XML-RPC.
One of the main difficulty was to "teach the extension to speak XML-RPC",
because "Firefox's included implementation is broken". As a consequence, he
hasn't had "that much time to focus on the trickiest part of the project:
deciding what exactly makes two search queries similar."
-He plans to "continue working on it for quite awhile" and thinks that "the
server will go through a lot of performance tuning and other refactoring" apart
from "the work he would like to do on the query matching algorithms.". He
can't wait "for people to download it from the wiki, try it out, and tell [him]
what they think!". So be sure to check it out, and give him your feedback !
+He plans to "continue working on it for quite awhile" and thinks that "the
server will go through a lot of performance tuning and other re-factoring"
apart from "the work he would like to do on the query matching algorithms.".
He can't wait "for people to download it from the wiki, try it out, and tell
[him] what they think!". So be sure to check it out, and give him your feedback
!
-Finally, Adam McCullough and his mentor Johnathan Blanford, worked together to
make GNOME more accessible. Their work is aimed at allowing any GNOME user to
use a webcam and her facial motions as an input device.
+Finally, Adam McCullough and his mentor Johnathan Blanford, worked together to
make GNOME more accessible. Their work is aimed at allowing any GNOME user to
use a web cam and her facial motions as an input device.
FIXME.
-Overall, it seems that both students and mentors had a very good time hacking
during this Google Summer of Code. As Raphael says, "every hacker would enjoy a
summer of code !". The GNOME project has successfully managed to gather
brillant students and mentors together to bring new features to the GNOME
desktop. Once again, the GNOME project has proven highly reactive and, together
with Google and the OpenSource community as a whole, made education, fun, and
innovation into a perfect match. Congratulations to everybody that has been
involved. It's now up to you to make good use from this effort.
+Overall, it seems that both students and mentors had a very good time hacking
during this Google Summer of Code. As Raphael says, "every hacker would enjoy a
summer of code !". The GNOME project has successfully managed to gather
brilliant students and mentors together to bring new features to the GNOME
desktop. Once again, the GNOME project has proven highly reactive and, together
with Google and the OpenSource community as a whole, made education, fun, and
innovation into a perfect match. Congratulations to everybody that has been
involved. "Everyone has been very helpful, friendly, and enthusiastic", says
Travis. Congratulations to everyone that has helped in a way or the other
during this summer.
+
+It's now up to you to make good use from this effort.
Let Raphael have the final word. "Source code is your friend" and "GNOME rocks
!".
- [Dms-commit] Changes to gnomejournal/SoC/SoCInterviews.txt, Julien Gilli, 2005/08/27
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- [Dms-commit] Changes to gnomejournal/SoC/SoCInterviews.txt, Julien Gilli, 2005/08/28
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