15 computer science collegians looking for a project

[Patrick Jahenr]

Hi there,

We are a group of 15 collegians, studying 'Applied Computer Science' 
at the University of Applied Sciences in Iserlohn (Germany) and we 
are looking for a project for the OLPC within the scope of our subject 
"Computer-Networks". Our professor (Prof. Martin Hühne) let us choose 
our own topic, leading us directly to our first problem: What can 
we do?

We have to find a project fitting to this demand. We read the wiki 
and realised, that most of our ideas we thought we could implement 
are either finished software projects or simply not good enough to 
keep on thinking about them, because they do not fit to the OLPC-
ideas. The wiki pages for Project ideas are nice, but you do not 
know exactly whether there is already someone working on one of the 
projects, or not. The Pages for Current Projects are quite nice too,
but there you do not know if the people working on it actually do 
need help.

That is why we post this little request to the readers of this mailing 
list.

We are looking for either a project we can take part on, or a not-
yet-implemented idea. It should not bee too big for us in order to 
be finished within time; it should not be too small to have something 
to do for 15 students. (Anyway, don't forget we need to sleep)
It would be nice, but not all necessary if the project could involve 
some of the networking technologies of the XO, I mean, the subject 
is "Computer-Networks"

Furthermore, there is a time limit: We will have to end the project 
until end of June, whereas there will be the same subject for another 
group of students after our free period, which will have the same,
or a similar task. Probably, they will go on, on our project, if 
its not finished.

Our Knowledge Base: 
We have good basic knowledge in C/C++, Java, some basic knowledge 
in scripting languages (Perl, PHP and bash) and some of us have good 
knowledge of Linux. A further subject called "Software-Engineering" 
came along with us for one and a half year.
We started reading and working in Python and GTK, and saw, we can 
cope that.

We are open for all your suggestions, you can email me directly if 
you have a project we can take part on, but you could also just answer 
here, if you have a good idea which of the project ideas we could 
implement.

Thank you in advance,


Patrick


P.S. Please forgive me my English skills