On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Patrick Jahner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
