[xwiki-devs] Photo Album Application for GSOC 2011

Hi, I am Shweta Agrawal, final year computer science student at IIT Roorkee, India. I want to apply for GSoC this year and am interested in working on Photo Album Application. I have four year experience in web development and have good understanding of HTML, CSS, Php, python and Javascript. I have worked on creating user interfaces for a couple of websites and developed applications like online music player (similar to grooveshark), online notice board etc for my Institute's intranet. As far as I understand the project, it's aimed at developing an application where users can - upload the photos (one by one or zip files or folders) with information like date, caption, location etc.- this info can be extracted by reading exif information. *additional* - multiple file selection and upload, drag and drop functionality (supported by HTML 5 compliant browsers). ** *doubt* that do we intend to create a default album for all the images uploaded/attached by user on any of the pages i.e. not only the images that are uploaded for some album. It will provide user an easy way to manipulate and browse through all uploaded image files. - create albums and add information like title, caption, description and location. *doubt* - will there be any limit on maximum number of photographs in an album? - browse through the uploaded photographs (available in browsers not having javascript - It can be done using css3). - view as thumbnails and slideshow (with adjustable timer and with manual browsing). - migration tool from the old version photo albums. *doubt* - what does old version photo albums refer to? - ability to tag and associate comments with attachments. *doubt* - does attachments here refers to image files only or any type of files. I have browsed through the code of older photo album application. I need guidance that is how should I start working on this application? I am thinking about starting with uploading part. Looking forward to your feedback. Regards Shweta Agrawal B.Tech IV YR CSE IIT Roorkee