Message Filtering Plugin System GSOC 2012

[David Edmundson]

Replying CC'ing the mailing list


On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:05 PM, .●๋•vívểkツ <vivek.purushoth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am Vivek from Bangalore, India. I am a Qt developer and have recently been
> involved in KDE. I am passionate about open source development. I found the
> GSoC 2012 project: "Message Filtering Plugin System" very interesting.
>
> I am very much interested to work on this project for GSoC 2012. Can you
> please guide me on how to go about this project.
>
Step 1, email the mailing list showing that you have some interesting
ideas for the project.
You emailed me, so you were pretty close.

> I have some more ideas for this project.
>
> 1)Identify any mail id's in the message obtained and give it in the form of
> mailto: onclick and give a suggestion to add them to contacts(KAddressBook).
> 2)Small Source codes shared in the messages can have syntax highlighting and
> indentation.
> 3)If the message received is pretty big, instead of flooding the receiver's
> chat box, it can be shown in a compact view with an option to expand(arrow
> to the left).
> 4)Suggestion to bookmark if there are any links in the message.
> 5)If there are any dates/day specified in the message, a suggestion can be
> given to add them to their calendar(Kontact).
> 6)Using Nepomuk, the email ids or website links appearing in the chat box
> can be linked to resources.
> 7)Interpret message smileys like :) :( :O :P ;) etc and show it in picture
> emotions(like animated gif).

Good stuff. There's a lot of technical challenges in those, and a bit
of research needed (such as...we already interpret smileys and show it
in picture emoticons).

Step 2: You need to do a bit of research into the area, make a list of
what you intend to code, how you intend to do it. i.e the Calendar
one; I've got no idea how you could do that.
The more it shows that you've thought through everything, the more
likely we are to pick you as a GSOC student.

Step 3:
Show us you can code. Have you made any other KDE contributions? Any
other projects? Ideally do some junior jobs on our project
(http://community.kde.org/Real-Time_Communication_and_Collaboration#Getting_Involved)
to prove yourself, and to familiarise yourself with the code.


>
> I would be glad if you could share some of your views on this and any
> specific thing you want to see in Telepathy.
>
> Thank you for your time,
>
> Vivek
> IRC: pvivek (#kde-telepathy, #kde-devel, #pes-os)