Hello, I'm Ioan-Eugen. Sorry to barge in out of the blue. I'm a Debian user and contributor (l10n Romanian, inactive lately) and an Apache committer (James). The idea sounds great an I would love to see it happening. From what I guess by looking at the requirements you need some sort of ESB. From a technical perspective I can suggest Apache Camel [1] which is a great integration product that I'm also using.
It has 120+ components [2] for interacting with most systems in the wild. I can also offer my expertise and put the student/mentor in contact with the Camel community (I personally know some folks there). I've given links to the twitter, mail and FTP component. They contain examples on how to you use Camel to interact with such systems [4], [5], [6]. [1] http://camel.apache.org/ [2] http://camel.apache.org/components.html [3] http://camel.apache.org/enterprise-integration-patterns.html [4] http://camel.apache.org/twitter.html [5] http://camel.apache.org/mail.html [6] http://camel.apache.org/ftp2.html _______________________________________________ Soc-coordination mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
