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

[Stefan Derkits]

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Hey everyone,

so since yesterday it's 100 % sure that we can work on Amarok as a
University Project for a Course and also that we most probably can spend
most of the time on the Features then on Projectmanagment :)

Thanks Bart for your mentoring offer, we are not yet sure what we will
implement, but will take your special expertise into account when making
the Decision & hope that you (and/or someone else) would also like to
mentor us if we choose to implement other Features.

If someone still has an Idea what would really be a great Feature we
could implement during our Project, we are still taking more Suggestions
for Features we could work on, the more choice the better for us :)
In the first Week of October we will then try to find out how much Work
each Feature would be and make the final Decision which Feature(s) we
will implement.

Stefan

On 09/27/2010 03:41 PM, Bart Cerneels 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:
> 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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