Hi my name is Roberto C. Serrano,
First, let me apologize if this not the right list to conduct an
introduction, please redirect me if I should post somewhere else.
I am the founder, and one the leaders of the Flourish! conference at
UIC that will be taking place next week - see www.flourishconf.com
for more details. This an annual conference geared to the promotion of
Free and Open Source software and open culture, this will be our second
edition. As you can imaging, I am and have been incredibly busy over
the last few weeks, which is why I have taken so long to actually sat
down an express some interest in your project. I hope you can
understand this and be able to excuse my lateness.
I am a senior at the University of Illinois, Chicago Campus, and I am
really interested in participating the summer of code and more in
particular in Open Moko.
Ever since I worked as an intern at Motorola last summer, I have been
looking at OpenMoko project with curiosity and interest. Time and
resources have not allowed me to acquire a unit, or to get involve, but
I am a firm believer that the next showdown in the digital revolution
will came from the integration of communities and mobile devices. The
disruptive power encase in a device such us neo combined with its true
open nature the platform offers is to me a truly interesting new field
of applications that I would really like to explore first hand.
I am interested in these two proposed projects:
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MythTV Advanced Remote Control
Bluetooth/WLAN-based remote control for MythTV, which for television
channels, would show a view like a mini-channel guide (complete with
preview, if tuner is available). For mythvideo, it would show all of the
details and cover art. Neo could act like a MythTV slave, where
television shows could be shown on the Neo as well.
Ad hoc communication via Bluetooth/WLAN
We want to be able to chat, send files, have internet connectivity,
exchange contacts, ...
The following issues need to be addressed:
1. Make BT/WLAN discoverable
2. Ad hoc pand connection
3. IP connectivity via zeroconf
4. Chat (and voice) communication via link-local and zeroconf
5. Interoperatibility with the other daemons to perform said tasks
6. GUI controls to access settings/perform actions
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I have been a user of Mythtv for the last 6 years, ever since version .4
. Mythtv was the one Killer App that pecked my curiosity, and made me
wan to stick with Linux for the long round. That was 5 years ago. I
have a decent knowledge of Mythtv, how was architected, and what
limitations it has. Over the years, I have looked through its code and
database and I don't think it would take me a big effort to get to
understand the communication protocol used in mythtv's client-server
architecture.
Regarding this second project, I am taking a Networked Operative
Systems class at school now. This class is giving me a interesting
perspective in how a unix system organizes is file system, network, etc,
and although I cannot claim I am an expert yet, I think this project
would help me growing and consolidating the knowledge from that class
and help me taking it to the next level. In addition, as I move
forward to my master I would like to make this my area of research.
In addition, I have been for a long time interested on participating in
the OSS process from within. I have been a happy user for a long time
now, and although I had been heavily involved in OSS - via my
contributions to the UIC LUG and Flourish! - I would like to take it to
the next level.
Before I formalize my proposal, I wanted to reach out the community, and
to ask a couple questions:
* What level of expertise in the OpenMoko platform do you expect
from the participants?
* Would it be possible to find out who is going to be mentoring and
to read a bit of what they have done?
I have only limited experience with some of the technologies that make
up the platform. Case in point, I have only programmed a bit of GTK
when I put together a small python utility a while back. I do have more
knowledge in qt, as I am currently using qt for this class:
http://www.evl.uic.edu/aej/422/index.html (This are the sketches for
the class final project I'm doing with a friend of mine:
http://lug.cs.uic.edu/rr/ )
I think I have a decent level of C/C++ as I will have used it in 5
different classes where it was required or I chose to use it (software
design, OS concepts and design, OOP languages and environments, UI
design and programing, and Networked OSs). Additionally, I have
surrounded myself with a veritable collection of C/C++ / programming
unix books. :) I am fairly decent when it comes to design of UIs.
Finally, I am looking forward to the mentoring aspect of the program: I
am a thirsty to learn about OSS development and to improve my
programming skills learning from others.
Thank you so much!
Roberto C. Serrano
