Hi Adam, On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 10:38 -0700, Adam Dingle wrote: > Andreas, > > thanks for the interest in working on Shotwell for Google Summer of > Code, and apologies for the long delay in responding - as you probably > know the Yorba team has been pretty busy working toward the upcoming 0.9 > release. No worries, 0.9 is an important release!
> I'm happy to report that Yorba has applied to be a Summer of > Code mentoring organization this year. This is great news for us students - I really hope yorba gets accepted as mentoring organization. > You can see our list of project > ideas here: > > http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/SummerCodeIdeas Alternatively to working on a sharing solution (see next chunk), I would be interested in: - play videos directly in Shotwell rather than via external player (#2820) - FTP publishing, with optional generation of a static html gallery > I do think that the Shotwell server idea might be too big for a Summer > of Code project, however. We do want to take that on someday, but there > are lots of open questions to answer about how exactly Shotwell should > work in a client/server situation and I think making this all work well > is probably a major project for the core team. If you have a > well-developed vision for exactly how this should work and how you would > modify Shotwell to make that happen, feel free to post it here and we > can discuss more. Otherwise I'd encourage you to look at our ideas page > for other projects that I think would be easier to take on this summer. > Cheers - I agree that the server idea is indeed a major project. My vision is certainly not too elaborated yet - the planning would be a particularly critical part of the project. Best of luck for the 0.9 release andreas _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
