[sugar] 15 computer science collegians looking for a project
Walter Bender
walter.bender at gmail.com
Mon Apr 28 17:19:37 EDT 2008
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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