Thanks for the reply, Lewis. I have some experience interacting with DSpace as a user, so I will reflect my thoughts about enhancements in my proposal as well as what I've already found from the community.
Regards, Alexander 2009/4/3 Stuart Lewis <s.le...@auckland.ac.nz> > Hi Alexander, > > > > The ideas on http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code_Ideas are > just ideas really, and so the projects are open to discussion. So with this > project, no one has decided exactly what sort of reminders or notifications > there should be. Part of your project plan could be to spend a week talking > to users of the Dspace software to find out what their real requirements > are, and then use those as the basis of your development work. Or, if you’ve > tried the software and have thoughts about what reminders or notifications > are missing, we’d love to hear about that in your application. > > > > We’re looking for project that will help us improve the Dspace software, > meet the needs of users, and fit in with our current and future > architectures. When we mark the applications we often look at the skills of > the student and how they interact with the Dspace community (so emailing us > was good J) as much as the proposed project, as we realise that unless you > have been using the Dspace software for a long time, it is difficult to put > together a proposal that is polished and complete. > > > > One type of alert that is currently missing from Dspace and would be very > handy would be to allow users to create saved searches that could send out > alerts (email / RSS) when new items are added that match their saved search. > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Stuart Lewis > > Digital Services Programmer > > Te Tumu Herenga The University of Auckland Library > > Auckland Mail Centre, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand > > Ph: 64 9 373-7599 x81928 > > *http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/* > > > > > > > > > > *From:* Alexander S. Sizemin [mailto:sale...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, 3 April 2009 3:54 a.m. > *To:* dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > *Subject:* [Dspace-devel] User Management - Enhancement > > > > Hi everyone, > I have a question regarding Gsoc "enhance user management" project idea? > > What kind of reminders are supposed to be developed during the project > implementation? > Should they be just a kind of e-mail notifications or dspace built-in > alerts, that will show on certain pages? > > Thank you. > Regards, > Alexander Sizemin >
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