University Projects (was: Re: 2.4 planning/University Projects)

[Bart Cerneels]

http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Proposals/GPodderNet

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 15:41, Bart Cerneels <bart.cerneels at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi Stefan.
>
> I can mentor and cerctainly if you decide to to either
> - -) Remote playlists support (Ampache & last.fm Playlist)
> - -) GPodder.net Podcast discovery and provider
>
> I'm the author of the playlists framework in amarok.
>
> Specifically the gpodder.net service/provider I'm really exited about
> and feel can be a very good project for your small team.
>
> You can chat with me about it on irc (Stecchino, find me in #amarok)
> or this mail thread.
>
> I'm in the same timezone as you (Belgium).
>
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 16:54, Stefan Derkits <stefan at derkits.at> wrote:
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>> Heya,
>>
>>> Maybe a good project for our university students
>>> from Germany
>>
>> as I'm one of those 3 Students from Austria (NOT Germany ;-) ) I thought
>> I'll give all of you a small Update.
>>
>> We (Christian, Felix & me [Stefan]) are 98 % sure that we can do our
>> University Project next Semester for Amarok.
>> We are 3 People in our Team and the Course has 6 ECTS, which should
>> amount to a total of 150 hours of Work per Person should be spent on the
>> Planning & Implementing of some new Features into Amarok (excluding some
>> administrative Overhead for Project Managment :) ).
>>
>> As the Semester starts in around 1 Week, I'm starting with the planning
>> and decided that the first Steps of our Team should be for everyone to
>> compile & use Amarok from GIT and then start to implement a Junior
>> Job/fix a Bug/add some small Feature as I think that this would be a
>> good starting Point for digging into the Amarok Codebase and start to
>> understand the Code :)
>>
>> We are also looking for a "Mentor" who is already experienced with the
>> Amarok Codebase and can help us with technical Questions, but also with
>> defining exactly what Features we will implement and to watch a little
>> bit over our Progress ... someone from Europe would be preferrable :)
>>
>> In October we will then look at the List of Features that was sent to us
>> and with the help of the Rest of the Community decide what we will
>> implement.
>> So if someone has additional Ideas for Features, please don't hestiate
>> to tell us, but keep in mind that they should be big enough to eat most
>> of the ~ 450 Hours [maybe we can implement 2 - 3 Features that fit
>> together, but most probably not much more because smaller Features
>> wouldn't fit in a Course "Software Engineering & Project Managment"].
>>
>> List of Features we got till now (incl. some Ideas of our own):
>> - -) Remote playlists support (Ampache & last.fm Playlist)
>> - -) GPodder.net Podcast discovery and provider
>> - -) Extending the Automated Playlist Generator with support for
>> Last.fm/The Echo Nest recommendations
>> - -) Designing a new APG UI
>> - -) Batch Tag Editor and Auto-Tagging UI
>> - -) Add Support for multiple Artist/Album/Genre/... Tags see also:
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119539
>> - -) Crossfading Support
>>
>> So much about a small Update on our University Project, if you have any
>> Questions/Remarks/Suggestions, feel free to contact me:
>>
>> Mail: stefan at derkits.at
>> Jabber: horrendus at jabber.at
>> IRC: HorusHorrendus @ #amarok & #amarok.de
>>
>> Have a nice Weekend,
>> Stefan
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