On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:25 PM, satyaakam goswami <[email protected]>wrote:

>  Lets Plan this one.The "be there and see what happens" events could have
> been held before too.This LUG has been around for sometime now,isn't it?We
> need to have a clear agenda for this.What if we turn up and nothing fruitful
> happens,it might result in newcomers turning away from further
> meetings.Besides the approach you are suggesting completely overlooks the
> preparedness of a participant for a particular skillset.To bring all of them
> on an acceptably equal(workable) level,we need to pre plan.What are your
> suggestions (now) on this?
>
> cool you are free to do the way you like it or want it ....
>
> -Satya
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Sorry for chipping in so late.

My project idea:

Title: librman [http://code.google.com/p/librman/]

Skill set required: python, working with ID3 tags, writing plugins for
popular media players

Description:
librman helps physically arrange your mp3 library. it should also support
other formats that have meta information like ID3 tags. the tool also
monitors your library (at file system level) and updates id3 information
according to changes in filesystem.

Need:
the tool already manages ID3 tags in some form. monitoring folder and
tweaking library information needs to be done.
it needs to be packaged as a plugin for popular music players like rythmbox,
banshee, amarok, so that it can have an actual use-case.

Features:
arrange music physically according to tag information
monitor physical directories for changes in tag information
package as plugin for popular music players

Compatibility:
Should work with all major music players for linux distributions
can later be ported to other platforms as well

***
on the other hand, i have some inputs for the planned activity as well. i am
not sure if this is the right place for it, now.

1. i, personally, do not prefer glamorous names like "HackerNight". What we
are doing is a Hackathon/BOF/Sprint (see there are already too many names
for the same thing). I suggest simply calling it a Sprint or some other
existing name of organiser's preference; helps avoid a lot of confusion.

2. is this a one time activity, or will it happen regularly over time ?

3. a venue with infrastructure for such offline access is going to be a
problem, especially since it is going to be overnight. i might have missed
it in the discussions, but do we have it covered?

4. aside: at drupal 7 release party, pratul and I built fossprojects.in as a
directory of indigenous projects (partly inspired by fossevents.in and
partly interested in building a sample website with drupal during the
event). since then its just lying around with me and pratul not focussing on
it much. it can be a good platform to organise list such projects, vote on
them, join teams and develop.


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