I just received this mail in response to the SoC project proposal I put up on <a href="http://developernew.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2007/Ideas#Amarok">http://developernew.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2007/Ideas#Amarok
</a> yesterday. I think his idea sounds really interesting even though it is not directly related to my proposal. If he succeeds in creating, and getting sites to use, such and API that would open up a world of opportunities for adding content services to Amarok
<br><br>Just thought I would forward it here.<br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:frihd@boxson.net">frihd@boxson.net</a></b> <
<a href="mailto:frihd@boxson.net">frihd@boxson.net</a>><br>Date: Mar 11, 2007 12:09 PM<br>Subject: About Google Summer of Code Project<br>To: <a href="mailto:nhnFreespirit@gmail.com">nhnFreespirit@gmail.com</a><br><br>
</span>Hi !
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I'm a French student which have just discovered your proposal for GSoC as I will certainly try to do it this year. I'm getting really excited with your proposal for two reasons:
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- This project is marvelous for opening access to DRM-free music
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- As you can see from my e-mail, I'm in <a href="http://boxson.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">boxson.net</a> : it's a french association of "free music" (free art licence & creative commons licence). I already wanted to create such a service "à la I-Tune" for our server (i'm not the coder of the site since I've little skills in php).
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I already used Amarok but I never dive into its code. Well I'm getting interested by your proposal and hope that you'll be accepted, if you need a platform which accepts to be on Amarok, I can at least find two of them (
<a href="http://dogmazic.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">dogmazic.net</a>, friends of us which seek the same goal) I also have some contacts with europarchive (<a href="http://archive.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
archive.org</a> in Europe).
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Nevertheless, what I had in mind with my project was more a "API" for web-platforms: the website had to comply with it and then its archive is available and not make a software comply with a website API. Well, being selected or not, I want to told you that this project still interest boxson a lot.
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Best regards,
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--FrihD(Lucas Di Cioccio)
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