Excerpts from Sean P. DeNigris's message of 2015-03-06 05:15:23 +0100: > Martin Bähr wrote > > i'd like to ask if anyone is willing to help me mentor those projects. > > I can probably help you with "Offline text search" (my preference) or > possibly "file editor and asset manager".
wonderful! offline text search is the more interesting project of the two for me as well. at the moment though it is just answering generic questions about how to get started with pharo. we'll see next month which projects will be accepted. > Two questions: > 1) Text Search mentions "in a specified directory on the mobile device", but > the rest of the description sounded like a desktop app. Which is it? Mobile > would add quite another dimension. Maybe a web app could be doable, but IMHO > a native mobile app is probably outside the scope of a GSoC project. whoops! that is a copy paste error. for exactly the reason you mention i have a separate project to just make a mobile app with the same specs. (i'd love if it could be done in smalltalk, but that's not going to work yet) i fixed the description. thanks for catching that! > 2) File Editor talks about editing assets, the list of which includes > images. Do you expect to be able to edit images from within Pharo, or did > that apply to the text-based assets (which most were)? General image editing > within Pharo would be really cool, but sounds like a big job... i am fine if just text editing works. image "editing" could be solved by just making it easy to load a new image. i'd appreciate if you could join the fossa...@googlegroups.com list http://groups.google.com/group/fossasia and help answer the students initial replies. which is basically: download pharo, look at tutorials, start reading pharo by example and look for spec questions on the list. for the editor project i also have http://societyserver.org/mbaehr/training/ where i show how to store a static website in an image, and the basic idea is to make that editable, and also add a control panel for the server, similar to the one for seaside. this would make a nice add-on package for zinc. so far most students are interested in the search application... next week i am off for the FOSSASIA conference in singapore, (where i'll give a workshop about building a REST api with Zinc-REST) so i'll have little time to check email. if you could help especially in that time, i'd really appreciate it. after the conference students will start to make proposals and in april we'll decide which roposals to accept. things should be more quiet then. greetings, martin. -- eKita - the online platform for your entire academic life -- chief engineer eKita.co pike programmer pike.lysator.liu.se caudium.net societyserver.org secretary beijinglug.org mentor fossasia.org foresight developer foresightlinux.org realss.com unix sysadmin Martin Bähr working in china http://societyserver.org/mbaehr/
