About Google Summer of Code Project

[Bart Cerneels]

Boxson.net seems willing to beta test Nikolaj's music store abstraction
layer :) .

However, I think a general Store-side API will either be limiting or
unpopular with many stores. The reason for this is that they might already
have a web-API in place that integrates perfectly with their own system.
Converting that could be a lot more effort then writing a Amarok script or
plugin.
Besides, with SOAP and XML, at least access to and the data itself is
standardised.

2007/3/11, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen <nhnfreespirit at gmail.com>:
>
> I just received this mail in response to the SoC project proposal I put up
> on http://developernew.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2007/Ideas#Amarok 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
>
> Just thought I would forward it here.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: frihd at boxson.net < frihd at boxson.net>
> Date: Mar 11, 2007 12:09 PM
> Subject: About Google Summer of Code Project
> To: nhnFreespirit at gmail.com
>
> Hi !
>
> 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:
>
> - This project is marvelous for opening access to DRM-free music
>
> - As you can see from my e-mail, I'm in boxson.net : 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).
>
> 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 (
> dogmazic.net, friends of us which seek the same goal) I also have some
> contacts with europarchive ( archive.org in Europe).
>
> 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.
>
>  Best regards,
>
> --FrihD(Lucas Di Cioccio)
>
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