[xwiki-devs] A new idea for GSoC 2013

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 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… -- *Buddhiprabha Erabadda* *Department of Computer Science and Engineering* *University of Moratuwa*