Implementation of CD stack collection view as a beginner

[Lydia Pintscher]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 16:25, Nakkapat Boonsri <nhtgnet at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dear Amarok-Developers,
>
> I'm a software engineering student at Heilbronn, Germany.
> I would like to starting get involve to open source community, as a
> developer,
> to gain experience as a software engineer.
>
> Amarok is my favourite app. A very important, always-run apps for me, to
> listen
> music, working with a large playlist and synchonizing my iPod.
> That's why I think this is the right place for me to begin.
> I found an idea of implementation the CD stack collection view in Google
> Summer of Code 2008.
>
> http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas#Amarok
>
> Actually, I planned to submit a GSoC proposal with this idea, but sadly
> I did't have enough time to finish it before deadline.
>
> At this moment, I would like to join and begin implementing.
> I have a wide experience in programming as a student, mostly in java world.
> For C++, some experience in small projects. One of them, programming using
> OpenGL
> (about 1500LOC) which my basic knowledge in OpenGL could be extended in this
> implementation.
> Furthermore, as I do work placement this summer, in a project I implemented
> the
> iTunes Coverflow using Flex for Webapp, which the logic and mathematics
> algorithm
> could be helpful for this implementation.
>
> Could you give me suggestions, whether I'm on the right way as a beginner?
> and which step further should I start going on.
>
> Regards,
> Nakkapat Boonsri

Hi Nakkapat,

Nice to hear you want to want to help with Amarok development.
The project you picked is unfortunately already taken by someone else
now. Leon applied for Summer of Code and despite being our first
choice for this project he was not picked since we had only a few
slots. He is now going to work on it outside of Summer of Code.

The options you have now are:
- See if Leon is ok with working together with you on the project.
- Pick another thing to work on. There is still plenty to work on
before we can release Amarok 2.

Please join us on IRC in #amarok on freenode so we can talk about it.
My nick is Nightrose. Just ping me there and we will work things out.
We would love to have you on board :)

Cheers
Lydia


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