Hi, There is some work done in the mobile direction that you can check out "Mobile XWiki Client and Mobile Skin repositories on xwiki-contrib" http://markmail.org/thread/ytujvmshwdeun7kv "New version of the Mobile App Code<http://markmail.org/message/htfs3bqtj2tdpfnf>" http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/htfs3bqtj2tdpfnf
If you really like the mobile area you can check out what is currently done and adapt your proposal according to it. Then the proposal will be review and see if we can find a matching mentor for it. Thanks, Caty On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Buddhiprabha Erabadda > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am Buddhiprabha Erabadda, a final year undergraduate from the > Department > > of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa. I have been > > studying about XWiki from few days now and I have > > downloaded the xwiki-enterprise-jetty-hsqldb-4.5.3.zip [1] and run it on > my > > Windows machine to understand the client side of XWiki. Now I am getting > > familiar with the code base, referring to various documentation. [2] > > > > After going through XWiki site and particularly News and Blog [3], I > > decided to come up with a new idea for GSoC 2013 for XWiki. My idea is to > > develop a mobile news application for XWiki. This will enable users to > view > > news about posts, new releases, fixes, etc through the application. In > > particular, my proposed application will contain the following. > > > > > > - News will be shown as a thumbnail list: it will contain an image of > > the author of the news item or an image related to the news item, a > title > > for the news item, and a brief description about the news item. > > - When a user clicks on the news item, user will be directed to a page > > with full information regarding that particular news. > > > > > > This application can have following features. > > > > > > - The user can filter news: for example Latest news, news by a > specific > > author, news from a particular period, etc. > > - Add favourite news: this will enable the user to mark his/her > favorite > > items and there by access them at a later point of time. > > - Enable adding comments from the application > > > > > > This is the basic outline of my proposed mobile application. I expect to > > implement this as a PhoneGap application. Using PhoneGap to develop the > > application will enable it to be run on multiple platforms, including > > Android, iOS, etc. The application will be beneficial for everyone > > including users and developers of XWiki because it will enable them to be > > updated on the go using a mobile application. > > > > > I would like to know your opinion on the idea of having the proposed > mobile > > news application. Please add to list of features if you have better or > new > > ideas for them. > > I'm glad that XWiki has caught your attention but I don't think your > proposal fits into our target for GSoC because: > > (1) It's not related to the XWiki product. If your application can get > the news from xwiki.org then it can get them from other sites as well. > Even if you take the data (using REST) from the blog structure > (objects) that is specific to XWiki, that is just a small part, the > rest of the application (display and interaction) would still be > generic. I'd rather see the XWiki news / blog posts integrated in an > existing news application. > > (2) The blog application already supports 'exporting' the blog posts / > news in RSS format, which can be used in any RSS aggregator, and there > are mobile news aggregator applications that can read RSS. > > I hope this won't discourage you. If none of the listed > http://gsoc.xwiki.org project ideas attract you then you can make your > own proposal but it must be related to the XWiki product. > > Thanks, > Marius > > > > > I participated for GSoC 2012 under DocBook organization for the project > > “DocBook to Word XML roundtripping XSLs” and successfully completed my > > project. [4] [5] I would like to contribute to XWiki in GSoC 2013 and I > > hope to know your idea about my proposed mobile application. Thank you in > > advance. > > > > [1] http://enterprise.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download > > > > [2] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome > > > > [3] http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/News > > > > [4] > > > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/buddhiprabha/15001 > > > > [5] > > > https://docbook.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/docbook/branches/gsoc-2012/roundtrip2 > > > > > > -- > > *Buddhiprabha Erabadda* > > *Department of Computer Science and Engineering* > > *University of Moratuwa* > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
