Greetings!

My name is Dragos, a year 3 student at the Polytechnic University of
Bucharest, Computer Science Faculty. I was a student last year at GSoC
for GNOME and worked on a snippets plugin for the Anjuta IDE (my work
can be viewed at [1]). It was a very fun experience and I hope I will
get the chance to contribute to Umit this summer :). In my last
project I worked with GTK+ for the front-end so I got some experience
with it and also got to read the GNOME HIG. I could say I am familiar
with Python, though I'm not exactly an expert :). My networking
theoretical and practical experience consists of: first 4 semesters of
CCNA (mostly theoretical), network infrastructure administration (with
Cisco IOS and iproute2/iptables on Linux), network services
administration and configuration (DNS, Apache, SMTP and a few others)
and network programming (basically school projects: implemented DHCP
partially based on RFC's, a DNS lookup tool and a file-sharing
protocol). I also am pretty enthusiastic about the networking
knowledge I will gather if given the possibility to contribute to
Umit.

I have talked with Luís Bastião Silva the past days on IRC about the
ideas proposed for Umit during GSoC2011 and I finally got the time to
work on the architecture of my proposal. The architecture is formed
around "4 - Network Inventory - next generation". It's obviously not
the final version, but I think it's a good idea to put it here and
discuss suggestions and potential flaws in my view so I can adapt it
for my final proposal. The document can be viewed at [2]. I would
greatly appreciate if you got the time to read it and give me some
feedback.

At the moment, some parts are left undecided:
* What exact measures should the Device Sensor do: I would like to
hear your suggestions about what you would think would be useful here.
* How exactly the UI will be organised: I usually dedicate a lot of
time for this and I am very open to feedback when I will do the UI
prototyping.
* The protocol which will be used for communication between agents.
Anyway, the protocol should allow extension if new features should be
added.

These days I also looked a bit in the Umit Network Scanner source code
and worked on a small patch for which I wrote a ticket here [3]. If
anyone would have time to review it, I would appreciate it :).

Thanks and best regards,
Dragos Dena


[1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/anjuta/tree/plugins/snippets-manager
[2] http://swarm.cs.pub.ro/~ddragos/network_inventory_next_generation.pdf
[3] http://trac.umitproject.org/ticket/421

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