hello all ! <br><br><br>Hi all ! <br><br>I am suren, Third year Engineering student from
India. I am very much interested to contribute for OLPC. I checked out
the OLPC page and am keen to work on the school server Idea.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Regarding the idea itself ,the problem of networked blogging has been explained nicely and I guess i can work on the following parts which are required. I am also thinking of other features which I will add up in my proposal<br>
1. To customize wordpress a simpler user interface for students - either stripping/adding functionalities<br>2. To add functionalities for access , permissions and previleges at various levels<br>3. To add replication support so that local data is maintained locally and the bandwidth usage optimized<br>
4. Easy to deploy method<br><br>On the second part , the development of a interface for school server admin I have the following doubts :<br>1. Is it a web interface or a app ? I read in the school server roadmap that its being planned to be a web app ! But using py-gtk implementing it as a native application wont be that difficult ! <br>
2. What all features are required in the school server ? <br> DNS/apache or any webserver /ftp for study material | local chat / local wiki configuration / users | local package manger for OLPC's <br><br>please let me if there is something being required upon to work so that I can work out a proposal based upon that ! <br>
<br>looking forward for your reply<br><br><br>Regading myself , I am one of the <a href="http://www.nitt.edu/home/students/clubsnassocs/computing/delta/webteam/" target="_blank">core webteam members</a> of my college ( NIT Trichy) which manages the college website(<a href="http://www.nitt.edu/" target="_blank">www.nitt.edu</a>) and Our technical Festival(<a href="http://pragyan.org/" target="_blank">pragyan.org</a>).
I have good working expereince python,PHP,server administration and web
application development. I have also worked around with open source
blogger - wordpress. I along with another student have developed <a href="http://nittians.com/" target="_blank">nittians.com</a>
, using wordpress and writing our own code to fetch the posts from all
the college students' blogs and display in the site.Thats the main
reason I choose to work for this project as it suits my interests and I
believe I can do some nice work as I am already familiar in this area.<br>
<br><br><br>----<br>Regards<br>suren<br>Third year Engineering student<br>NIT Trichy<br>India<br><br>
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