Hi Orcun!
Awesome to know of your gae background and your interest on Open Monitor.
We have extreme challenges to overcome there with lots of data to parse and
process, we're having a lot of fun :-D
Answers below:
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 9:56 AM, orcun avsar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm Orcun Avsar. I study computer engineering in Turkey. I wish to work on
> Aggregator part of the OpenMonitor project. I was a GSoC 2011 student last
> year. I contributed Melange for the "Integration with external APIs"
> project. Melange powers GSoC and GCI workflows. It runs on Appengine with
> Django (not through 'django non-rel' but smilar). My project was about
> using external APIs (GData) to integrate some features like proposal
> syncing, spreadsheet exporting, student shipment tracking etc. I kept
> contributing project after GSoC for a while but had to give a break becuse
> of my lessons. I will reference to the project documents when needed.
>
> There are few strong reasons for me to apply this project.
>
>
> - Since I'm a Turkish citizen, I'm one of the victims of the Internet
> censorship. This is a strong + motivation for me. This project is not the
> solution itself but plays a role in being a part of the solution as an
> informative tool.
> - I strongly support Free Software and Freedom of information.
> - I like the development tools. I worked with GAE last summer
> intensely. I want more consolidated development skills with GAE / Python.
> - It's fun to work/learn with open source people.
>
>
> In here, I want to examine code base as quick as possible to integrate
> myself with the project. Currently code is available in sourceforge but not
> at github. Can you at least give a link to download tarball?
>
> Questions about project (those I couldn't get any reply on #IRC :)):
>
>
> - Support various slave aggregators: Does that mean multiple servers
> will work in a replicated mode or these will be backup servers those serve
> as temporarily buffer (like current clients). Do we need to write a
> seperate application for this or just modify current aggregator since It
> can work on other environments through WSGI.
>
> These are going to be spare servers, serving as buffers or proxies in some
situations. Since GAE can handle virtually any load, our main interest with
these separate servers is to have a linking bridge to regions that do not
have access to gae apps (like china).
>
> - Internet Map: What does that mean? : "we would like to be able to
> also use our nodes to map the Internet and show that in real time on our
> site. "
>
> It is a graphical representation of all known nodes on the internet and
how they interact. This is likely an independent project for this year.
>
> - IPv6: Will aggreagator and nodes (peers) talk over IPv6 or this only
> contains code change to accept IPv6 addreses (like model field changes
> etc..).
>
> We'll have to be able to talk over IPv6, as well as adapt code to work
with the IPv6 address format.
Let me know if you have further questions... get started by submiting your
proposal, and then we can evolve the discussion from there, commenting and
editing proposal as needed.
>
>
>
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> Orçun Avşar
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