[Dms-commit] Changes to gnomejournal/SoC/SoCInterviews.txt

[Julien Gilli]

Index: gnomejournal/SoC/SoCInterviews.txt
diff -u gnomejournal/SoC/SoCInterviews.txt:1.4 
gnomejournal/SoC/SoCInterviews.txt:1.5
--- gnomejournal/SoC/SoCInterviews.txt:1.4      Sun Aug 28 13:22:50 2005
+++ gnomejournal/SoC/SoCInterviews.txt  Sun Aug 28 14:32:18 2005
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-Google summer of code is over. It's time for us to let you discover all the 
GNOME goodies, jewels and magic that came out of it. In this article, you'll 
learn about streaming and sharing some music with your GAIM buddys, hidding 
your personal data from others  by encrypting folders in one click from 
nautilus, using your webcam and your head as a mouse pointer and much, much 
more !
+Google summer of code is over. It's time for us to let you discover all the 
GNOME goodies, jewels and magic that came out of it. In this article, you'll 
learn about streaming and sharing some music with your GAIM buddys, hidding 
your personal data from others  by encrypting folders in one click from 
nautilus, using your webcam and your head as an input device and much, much 
more !
 
-Google sponsored four hundred students to work on OpenSource projects like 
GNOME, Apache, PERL, and KDE during this summer. Students submitted 
applications to Google by the middle of June. Mentors from the most active 
OpenSource organizations (RedHat, The Perl Foundation, etc.) selected the ones 
that had the best potential, and mentored the selected students for two months. 
Of course, GNOME fans and mentors had a lot of neat ideas for students to work 
on.
+Google sponsored four hundred students to work on OpenSource projects like 
GNOME, Apache, PERL, and KDE during this summer. Students submitted 
applications to Google by the middle of June. The, mentors from the most active 
OpenSource organizations (RedHat, The Perl Foundation, etc.) selected the ones 
that had the best potential, and mentored the selected students for two months. 
Of course, GNOME fans and mentors had a lot of neat ideas for students to work 
on.
 
-The GNOME Foundation has mentored eleven students. They all worked on very 
exciting new features, and by now have a working implementation of what was 
planned at the beginning of the summer. The projects domains range from music 
sharing integrated to the desktop to live edition and versionning of developer 
documentation, going through an amazing firefox extension that will help you to 
share google searches. 
+The GNOME Foundation has mentored eleven students. They all worked on very 
exciting new features. By now, most of them have a working implementation of 
what was planned at the beginning of the summer. The projects' domains range 
from music sharing integrated to the desktop to live edition and versionning of 
developer documentation, going through an amazing firefox extension that will 
help you to share google searches. 
 
 Be sure to read on to find all the gems offered by this summer of code, and 
let's start with a step into the GNOME future : using a webcam and your head as 
an input device. 
 
@@ -10,10 +10,25 @@
 
 On the music integration side, two outstanding projects made their way through 
the google application process : shared music spaces in gaim and playlists 
sharing with RythmBox. 
 
-The first one was carried on by the very enthusiastic Raphael Slinckx that 
think that "every hacker would enjoy a summer of code !". The initial plan was 
to allow people to stream music from and to their GAIM buddys in one click. As 
if it would not be enough to make it a must-have,"the project is a bit 
different from the submitted application proposal, especially concerning 
rhythmbox integration which was not planned initially.". As for now, "The 
application has reached a point where it works when the situation is perfect", 
and you can see the magic happening with these nice screenshots :
+The first one was carried on by the very enthusiastic Raphael Slinckx that 
think that "every hacker would enjoy a summer of code !". The initial plan was 
to allow people to stream music from and to their GAIM buddys in one click. As 
if it would not be enough to make it a must-have, "the project is a bit 
different from the submitted application proposal, especially concerning 
rhythmbox integration which was not planned initially.". As for now, "The 
application has reached a point where it works when the situation is perfect", 
and you can see the magic happening with these nice screenshots :
 
 FIXME : screenshots
 
 The project is not finished, and Raphael "plans to move to a better streaming 
protocol when gstreamer will be ready, and improving aspects such as 
firewall/nat byassing.". Indeed, the feature will only work "if you have a PC 
directly connected to
-internet or a upnp capable router, and no firewall.". He has been "astonished 
by the GNOME community", but found that "lacking, or even missing 
documentation, was one of the biggest problems he has faced.". Connect, push up 
the volume and share the music, it's as simple as it gets !
+internet or a upnp capable router, and no firewall.". He has been "astonished 
by the GNOME community", but found that "lacking, or even missing 
documentation", was one of the biggest problems he has faced. Connect, push up 
the volume and share the music, it's as simple as it gets !
 
+Charles Schmidt has been responsible for giving the love needed to the birth 
of the second music related project. As he says with a lot of humility, "It's 
not just RhythmBox being able to share playlists with iTunes, but also RB 
sharing its music to other RB clients on the network". At first,  he "had 
suggested doing this using a DAAP module for GnomeVFS.  So that you could hand 
GnomeVFS a URI like "daap://Lyndsey's music" and it would return a directory 
full of music.". But quickly enough, he "was convinced by others that the DAAP 
code should live inside Rhythmbox, not in a GnomeVFS module.".
+So far, it "has definitely paid off", and he was able to "push out a patch 
last night that other people were able to get working". Charles doesn't want to 
stop here, he "definitely see himself continuing to work with the Rhythmbox 
community to improve DAAP" and he's "thinking to tackle equalizer support 
next". So we all can see that even if he says that "Time management is a skill 
i am still lacking", we can expect great things coming from him in the next 
week. Congrats !
+
+Now, let's move on to the core of the GNOME desktop. Our students pushed it to 
places where it hasn't been before. First, let's see how John Manning hacked 
the GNOME VFS layer to bring you encrypted folder support out of the box.
+
+FIXME 
+
+And now for something completely different, the usual suspect strikes again : 
an amazing idea packed in a firefox plugin. 
+
+You probably already got stuck with an unsuccessfull Google search. Sanford is 
now able to offer a nice solution to this situation. You can share search tips 
with people from all over the world, in one click. The project takes the form 
of a firefox extension on the client side. On the server side, while Sanford 
had "initially intended to write the Search Party Protocol directly over TCP, 
and have a Java server somewhere that took care of matching up users with the 
proper chat room, ", he changed his plans when Seth Nickell "pointed out early 
on that this might make the extension unusable for those behind various 
firewalls", and chose XML-RPC. One of the main difficulty was to "teach the 
extension to speak XML-RPC", because "Firefox's included implementation is 
broken". As a consequence, he hasn't had "that much time to focus on the 
trickiest part of the project: deciding what exactly makes two search queries 
similar."
+He plans to "continue working on it for quite awhile" and thinks that "the 
server will go through a lot of performance tuning and other refactoring" apart 
from "the work he would like to do on the query matching algorithms.".  He 
can't wait "for people to download it from the wiki, try it out, and tell [him] 
what they think!". So be sure to check it out, and give him your feedback !
+
+
+
+Overall, it seems that both students and mentors had a very good time hacking 
during this Google Summer of Code. As Raphael says, "Source Code is your 
friend" and