15 computer science collegians looking for a project

[Tomeu Vizoso]

I've been told that machines will be sent to the people that provide a
convincing description of what they want to work on.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer_program#How_to_apply_for_an_XO

Thanks,

Tomeu

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was perhaps under the mistaken impression that OLPC was dumping
>  machines to developers like candy again after a hiatus due to a
>  logistical snafu. Hmm.
>
>  -walter
>
>  2008/4/29 NoiseEHC <NoiseEHC at freemail.hu>:
>
>
> > Actually it is a funny proposal since without real XO machines it is a
>  >  little bit hard to profile programs and since it seems that it is quite
>  >  impossible nowadays to get a machine, they are out of luck. Exactly why
>  >  does not OLPC just dump machines to developers like candy? Even if only
>  >  1% of people do something about performance, it could be more cost
>  >  effective than hiring 1 man for it (and the XO badly needs this work).
>  >
>  >  BTW if you referring to this
>  >  http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-March/012033.html
>  >  or this
>  >  http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2006-September/000439.html
>  >  then these are not easy and fast things either.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  Walter Bender wrote:
>  >  > Any interest in the themes/topics Tomeu outlined in his email about
>  >  > Sugar performance? Lots of interesting things to explore that would be
>  >  > of real value to the project.
>  >  >
>  >  > -walter
>  >  >
>  >  > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Patrick Jahenr
>  >  > <patrick.jahner at stud.fh-swf.de> wrote:
>  >  >
>  >  >> 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
>  >  >>
>  >  >>
>  >  >>
>  >  >>
>  >  >>
>  >  >>
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