15 computer science collegians looking for a project

[Edward Cherlin]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Patrick Jahner
<patrick.jahner at stud.fh-swf.de> wrote:
> First of all I have to thank you for all your suggestions and ideas.
>
>  Our professor has limited our enthusiasm. He said, if we wanted to
>  develop something for the XO there should be a group of a maximum
>  of 5 ppl.
>  Now these 5 people decided to write a small email activity.

Not three groups of 5 each? Pity.

>  I'm sorry if I disappointed you now, I would have liked to help you
>  with your ideas, because I see there is so much work to do at so
>  many nice ideas.

You certainly didn't disappoint us. We welcome you all to the
community, and hope that others will have a chance to join the work
later.

>  Patrick
>
>  Patrick Jahner schrieb:
>  > 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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