Fedora Summer Coding community February 2014

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[GSOC 2014] Project Fedora Collage
by Hammad Haleem 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

Hey All, This is Hammad, Undergraduate Computer Engineering Student From India. I was going through the project ideas on this year's Ideas page. This Idea, Fedora College appeared quite interesting to me. I approached the mentor asking for direct guidance on the Idea. Mentor, Mr. Eduardo, being a working professional was quite helpful on the matter and guided me with patience. He added me to the Github repository & also gave me permissions to write to the repository. I went through most of the code and was able to successfully deploy the code on my machine. Also I was able to publish some commits. But before continuing my work on the project I intent to discuss more about the project idea and approach that should be taken on the list. The idea on which I wish to devote my Summer is *: Fedora College. *The main Idea for the project is to use the concept of virtual classrooms for training of new fedora contributors. Primarily by relying on video. The main task for the projects are : - An API REST for publish and convert the videos (This is the major issue. we need a free converter for convert any format video in OGV,) - A backend for manage the uploads, comments, and access level of the contributors. - A frontend, We are thinking in something like railscasts.com. but with a profile section where you can ask questions to the experienced contributors about thing on published videos. Looking for more ideas & your positive feedback on the subject. Cheers :) Hammad Haleem github.com/hammadhaleem

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Google Summer of Code 2014
by Buddhike Kurera 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

Hi All, It is great pleasure to announce that the Fedora Project has been selected as one of the mentoring organizations for GSoC 2014 program which is the 10th program in the series. Interested contributors may started registering and joining as mentors from now onward through http://www.google-melange.com/ Happy Summer Coding !! -- Regards, bckurera

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Gsoc'14 idea feedback.
by Vidhun Vinod 22 Feb '14

22 Feb '14

Hey, I'm Vidun, I would like to suggest an idea for Gsoc'14 and get feedback on this if this is all possible. The idea initially came up as a difficulty I faced when handling RTC(real time communication) for web project to handle and push notifications, alerts, messages etc. As from a general view point this can be easily accomplished with long polling, which is resource intensive. Some of the problems that developers face when implementing their own RTC message pushing. 1. Most of the hosting companies do not support web-sockets. This is troublesome for established companies to migrate host to support RTC. 2. Privacy issues. 3. Additional work load for developers. Developing web-socket apps is not easy. 4. Would make it easier to screen/modify data on the fly using the server. Use-Case: This is the initial use-case I had in mind, although it may be possible to take a different approach altogether based on some good suggestions from the community. Client: This is the web application or mobile apps, although it could be even a regular application I cannot think of an actual need for a regular app to use this. The scope for this project on a client would involve writing the libraries for RTC data from server using javascript. Server: The server can be used by a single company or to provide services to multiple organisations. The server can hold admin and also general subscribed users who are allowed to push data to clients. The server is RTC enabled using web sockets. System Sequence Diagram: [image: Inline image 2] There are sever third party organisations like pusher that provide a hosted platform for Websocket, but it would be cool if there was an open approach for hosting web socket server. This would mean more control and privacy. Pusher Home <http://pusher.com>. It would be very nice if I could get some suggestions and feedback on if this was all possible as a GSOC approach with fedora. This draft is basic, I can work on a complete proposal once I get feedback on whether this approach as a GSOC'14 idea with fedora is possible. Regards, Vidun.

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GSoC 2014 wiki updated
by Lali Devamanthri 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

Hi, I have updated the The Fedora Project main wiki page[1] and related priority pages. Hope we are good to go with GSoC 2014 application process. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSOC_2014 Thanks and Regards, \Lali (LSD)

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Fedora Summer Coding community February 2014