Development Team/Project Ideas: Difference between revisions

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* See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:GSoC_proposals for last years' applications to OLPC. A quick scan indicates that around 80-90% of these would have been appropriate Sugarlabs applications if Sugarlabs had existed at the time. The other 10-20% would still be applications to OLPC, because they involve either software for the XS (school server) or something specific about the XO hardware.

== Well-explained ideas ==

== (relatively) Well-explained ideas (follow template just below) ==

==== Template ====

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*Difficulty (as a GSoC project): medium-hard

*Skills needed: ~~Probably~~ Python~~; experience with real-world~~ communications~~, where message transmission sometimes fails.~~

*Skills needed: intermediate ability with Python and communications

== Brainstorm / unexplained ideas ==

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* Accessibility Support: Sugar currently doesn't have anything available for the visually impaired.

* [[DevelopmentTeam/DatastoreRewrite#Versioned_entries_.28not_fulfilled_yet.29|Version support]] for [[Journal]] / [[DevelopmentTeam/Almanac/sugar.datastore.datastore|DataStore]]: create a new version for each (automatic or manual) Keep with the same name / tags, create a branch if metadata was changed. Allow the user to access "older" versions (Keeping and "old" version will create a branch) and view ancestry (tree of branches). See also [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpcfs Olpcfs].

==== Research projects: code exists, but more-or-less unpolished, and it would be awesome to get one of these really working well ==

* [[DevelopmentTeam/DatastoreRewrite#Versioned_entries_.28not_fulfilled_yet.29|Version support]] for [[Journal]] / [[DevelopmentTeam/Almanac/sugar.datastore.datastore|DataStore]]: create a new version for each (automatic or manual) Keep with the same name / tags, create a branch if metadata was changed. Allow the user to access "older" versions (Keeping and "old" version will create a branch) and view ancestry (tree of branches). See also (old) [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpcfs Olpcfs] and (newer; less-documented; based on an RCS backend and a relatively small amount of fuse magic) [http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/cscott/olpcfs2/ olpcfs2].

* There is also [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal%2C_reloaded Journal, reloaded]], another research project with real code behind it that is promising but languishing. In this case, the idea is to make the journal "tagging" view transparently compatible with a traditional hierarchical directory structure.

* bemasc's [http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/bemasc/groupthink/ groupthink], expanded: The idea is to have a data structure which keeps itself in sync across many laptops "behind the scenes", thus providing drop-in collaboration as long as the structure in question provides the needed functionality. The problem is that the existing code is unpolished, and only supports some pretty limited data structures. I have some ideas of [[how groupthink could be more general]]. [[User:Homunq|Homunq]] 00:43, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

==== Java ====

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 * See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:GSoC_proposals for last years' applications to OLPC. A quick scan indicates that around 80-90% of these would have been appropriate Sugarlabs applications if Sugarlabs had existed at the time. The other 10-20% would still be applications to OLPC,  because they involve either software for the XS (school server) or something specific about the XO hardware.
-== Well-explained ideas ==
+== (relatively) Well-explained ideas (follow template just below) ==
 ==== Template ====
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 *Difficulty (as a GSoC project): medium-hard
-*Skills needed: Probably Python; experience with real-world communications, where message transmission sometimes fails.
+*Skills needed: intermediate ability with Python and communications
 == Brainstorm / unexplained ideas ==
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 * Accessibility Support: Sugar currently doesn't have anything available for the visually impaired.
-* [[DevelopmentTeam/DatastoreRewrite#Versioned_entries_.28not_fulfilled_yet.29|Version support]] for [[Journal]] / [[DevelopmentTeam/Almanac/sugar.datastore.datastore|DataStore]]: create a new version for each (automatic or manual) Keep with the same name / tags, create a branch if metadata was changed. Allow the user to access "older" versions (Keeping and "old" version will create a branch) and view ancestry (tree of branches). See also [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpcfs Olpcfs].
+==== Research projects: code exists, but more-or-less unpolished, and it would be awesome to get one of these really working well ==
+* [[DevelopmentTeam/DatastoreRewrite#Versioned_entries_.28not_fulfilled_yet.29|Version support]] for [[Journal]] / [[DevelopmentTeam/Almanac/sugar.datastore.datastore|DataStore]]: create a new version for each (automatic or manual) Keep with the same name / tags, create a branch if metadata was changed. Allow the user to access "older" versions (Keeping and "old" version will create a branch) and view ancestry (tree of branches). See also (old) [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpcfs Olpcfs] and (newer; less-documented; based on an RCS backend and a relatively small amount of fuse magic) [http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/cscott/olpcfs2/ olpcfs2].
+* There is also [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal%2C_reloaded Journal, reloaded]], another research project with real code behind it that is promising but languishing. In this case, the idea is to make the journal "tagging" view transparently compatible with a traditional hierarchical directory structure.
+* bemasc's [http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/bemasc/groupthink/ groupthink], expanded: The idea is to have a data structure which keeps itself in sync across many laptops "behind the scenes", thus providing drop-in collaboration as long as the structure in question provides the needed functionality. The problem is that the existing code is unpolished, and only supports some pretty limited data structures. I have some ideas of [[how groupthink could be more general]]. [[User:Homunq|Homunq]] 00:43, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 ==== Java ====