[maemo-developers] Final (?) list of SoC projects

[From: kender]

On 3/26/07, Michael Dominic Kostrzewa <michael.kostrzewa at nokia.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:55:35AM +0300, ext maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org wrote:
> > SoC mentor? Read this through!
> >
> > http://maemo.org/maemowiki/GoogleSoC2007 updated with the latest
> > information.
> >
> > We have received some projects after the deadline, I believe that
> > redirected from other projects or Google's pool. I have marked two as
> > uneligible since they contained no project proposals, only introduction
> > of students willing to help (they have been pointed to maemo.org mailing
> > lists and garage projects, where a lot of help is needed). We have some
> > proposals that seem to overlap or be very similar, around location and
> > PC-device transfers. I'd say the average quality of the proposals are
> > good, some students have put a lot of effort in them already.
> >
> > The list of projects and some comments, in no special order.
> >
> > - Dasher via Maemo Device as Keyboard for PC
> > This one might drop if it's confirmed that a Dasher port already exists.
> > Any links?
> >
> > - IMAP-related enhancements to osso-email
> > We have told this student that in fact most of the development hotness
> > is currently happening around http://modest.garage.maemo.org/ , inviting
> > him to refactor his proposal accordingly.
> >
> > - Japanese/Chinese handwriting recognition on Maemo
> > This student requested mentorship to Makoto Sugano, who is Nokia
> > employee but also maintainer in his free time of
> > https://garage.maemo.org/projects/maemocjk/. The project looks good and
> > it's well formulated. AFAIK there are no other mentors able to even read
> > basic Chinese/Japanese. Makoto would be happy mentoring this project.
> > Any objections? Note that Makoto's job in Nokia has nothing to do with
> > Chinese/Japanese implementation or any kind of L10n/i18n.
> >
> > - Last.fm radio player
> > Xan (Nokia employee and Last.fm fan) has requested mentorship of this
> > project and I have reminded him the backup policy. If a community mentor
> > wants to pick this one s/he will have preference. Otherwise we can keep
> > Xan and then the rest of mentors value the appropiateness of the combo
> > when ranking the project. The proposal itself is well formulated.
>
> I'm willing to help/advice on this one too. Maybe on the UI/gstreamer side or
> something...
>
> --
> MDK, another last.fm fan

I'm working on it, so, I'm very interested too. I'm working with
Gstreamer, trying to make a plugin, I have some examples in python and
the plugins of rhythmbox.

I had the idea of using shell-fm and only rewrite only the audio module.

I haven't got anything written in code, but I know how it works and
what work must be done.