Wannabe

[Patrick C]

Whoops! I got bounced. Sorry, I initially thought that Amarok-devel and
Amarok were separate lists!

Anyhow, here's my post:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Patrick C <patrick.pxc.c at gmail.com>
Date: Aug 3, 2007 10:40 AM
Subject: Wannabe
To: Amarok Developer Mailing List <amarok-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>

Hi, all. I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list or if these kinds of
requests should go on the main one, but here goes:

I'm a high school student with minimal programming experience (I took a
couple of Java classes, and my final projects are a
report<http://www.robertc.com/pxc/download/aarp.zip>and Tetris
clone <http://www.robertc.com/pxc/download/tetris.zip>), but (I think) a
good understanding of the basics and a love for FOSS, Linux, KDE, and most
specifically Amarok. I'd love to become an Amarok developer (or otherwise
involved in the project), maybe through Google's summer of code in a few
years, but I don't know where to start. I've found that usually the easiest
way for me to learn syntax or an algorithm is to practice it, and I was
wondering if there's any small part of Amarok I could take a look at and
start rewriting (just for practice), or if there's any watered-down
source/API overview I could look at to start getting an idea of how the
pieces of Amarok work together.

My other question:
At the moment, the idea I'd like to see implemented in Amarok (hopefully by
me!) is Rhapsody <http://rws-blog.rhapsody.com/> support. I don't know if
it's in the works or not, but I assume not as I haven't seen anything on the
developer blogs or main website about it. The main issue, I believe, is that
it's proprietary, and non-free, and also that the last thing Amarok wants
(or needs) is to become a DRM (or otherwise) music store. So my question is:
would this be allowable as a part of Amarok, and would it be possible to
make it a separate package (like the various Amarok engines are in
Debian-based and RPM-based distributions)?

Thank you very much for your time!

PS: I don't have much money or a full-time job, so please don't point me to
expensive ($60+) books on C++ or anything like that.
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