Hello, I am Kalpana Roy, final year engineering student from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India. Continuing with the trend of explaining the idea of the project on the mailing list, I am describing my project in this mail. The idea was described on the Gnome list of GS0C ideas site (http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2009/Ideas) as:
*Gnome-panel: Location awareness for the clock applet* *Benefits:* Lets users get the local time and the right timezone, automatically. Maybe also allow selection of locations from an interactive map. *Requirements:* Some experience with C and maybe dbus would be helpful. *Resources: *http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue http://blog.pierlux.com/projects/libchamplain/en/ http://nzjrs.github.com/osm-gps-map/ *Jussi Kukkonen [email protected] has a basic implementation of this already, GSoC could be to clean it up and integrate.* I discussed about the afore-mentioned idea on the #geoclue channel on freenode. Henri Bergius (http://bergie.iki.fi/blog) helped me improve the idea to include the following points: - Changing the clock time zone<http://people.redhat.com/mclasen/intlclock/intlclock-2007-09-29.png>based on location ( Jussi <http://vilunki.wordpress.com/> already has a patch for this that needs to be cleaned up and submitted) - Changing weather applet to show weather for current location - Telling Tracker <http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/> about the location where documents were edited so you can ask *"give me the documents I edited in Stockholm"* - Making Gwibber<http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/gwibber-the-everything-client/>send the current location<http://live.gnome.org/Gwibber/Roadmap#head-fa46c3b444c9f355f2fba1684cc7d2805e42eff9>to microblogging services that support it <http://brightkite.com/> - Showing where your Evolution contacts<http://www.novell.com/documentation/evolution24/index.html?page=/documentation/evolution24/evolution24/data/usage-contact.html>are (and what their local time is), based on Empathy's XMPP location support<http://blog.pierlux.com/2009/01/22/empathy-where-are-you/en/> - Setting instant messaging availability status based on location (*"set my work account as offline when I'm home"*) - Clock can not only automatically update the time & weather settings but also display the appointments specific to a location. More about the project idea can be found at http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/making_the_gnome_desktop_location-aware/ , http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/making_the_gnome_desktop_location-aware/ & http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dd4m6zsj_5z2jbjqc9&skipauth=true&ncl=true(which contains snapshot of the demo code built by Jussi). I have not yet decided as to which of the features will/can be implemented within the time-period of GSoC but I feel that inclusion of GeoClue into Gnome desktop will make it more smart and give the users an ease of use, automating simple day-to-day tasks without worrying about them. I would like to seek advice from all those who are interested, regarding how to implement the project, any modifications or any general comment. Thanking you, ~kr0y. -- ~ Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, there you long to return --Da Vinci
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