29 Apr
2013
29 Apr
'13
9:26 a.m.
Hi,
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Buddhiprabha Erabadda
<buddhiprabha31481(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I am Buddhiprabha Erabadda, a final year undergraduate from the Department
of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa. I have been
studying about XWiki from few days now and I have
downloaded the xwiki-enterprise-jetty-hsqldb-4.5.3.zip [1] and run it on my
Windows machine to understand the client side of XWiki. Now I am getting
familiar with the code base, referring to various documentation. [2]
After going through XWiki site and particularly News and Blog [3], I
decided to come up with a new idea for GSoC 2013 for XWiki. My idea is to
develop a mobile news application for XWiki. This will enable users to view
news about posts, new releases, fixes, etc through the application. In
particular, my proposed application will contain the following.
- News will be shown as a thumbnail list: it will contain an image of
the author of the news item or an image related to the news item, a title
for the news item, and a brief description about the news item.
- When a user clicks on the news item, user will be directed to a page
with full information regarding that particular news.
This application can have following features.
- The user can filter news: for example Latest news, news by a specific
author, news from a particular period, etc.
- Add favourite news: this will enable the user to mark his/her favorite
items and there by access them at a later point of time.
- Enable adding comments from the application
This is the basic outline of my proposed mobile application. I expect to
implement this as a PhoneGap application. Using PhoneGap to develop the
application will enable it to be run on multiple platforms, including
Android, iOS, etc. The application will be beneficial for everyone
including users and developers of XWiki because it will enable them to be
updated on the go using a mobile application.
I would like to know your opinion on the idea of
having the proposed mobile
news application. Please add to list of features if you have better or new
ideas for them.
I'm glad that XWiki has caught your attention but I don't think your
proposal fits into our target for GSoC because:
(1) It's not related to the XWiki product. If your application can get
the news from xwiki.org then it can get them from other sites as well.
Even if you take the data (using REST) from the blog structure
(objects) that is specific to XWiki, that is just a small part, the
rest of the application (display and interaction) would still be
generic. I'd rather see the XWiki news / blog posts integrated in an
existing news application.
(2) The blog application already supports 'exporting' the blog posts /
news in RSS format, which can be used in any RSS aggregator, and there
are mobile news aggregator applications that can read RSS.
I hope this won't discourage you. If none of the listed
http://gsoc.xwiki.org project ideas attract you then you can make your
own proposal but it must be related to the XWiki product.
Thanks,
Marius
I participated for GSoC 2012 under DocBook organization for the project
“DocBook to Word XML roundtripping XSLs” and successfully completed my
project. [4] [5] I would like to contribute to XWiki in GSoC 2013 and I
hope to know your idea about my proposed mobile application. Thank you in
advance.
[1] http://enterprise.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download
[2] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
[3] http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/News
[4]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/buddhiprabha/150…
[5]
https://docbook.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/docbook/branches/gsoc-2012/roun…
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*Buddhiprabha Erabadda*
*Department of Computer Science and Engineering*
*University of Moratuwa*
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