My Google Sommer of Code Project

[Ali Albazaz]

Am 04.04.2010 02:17, schrieb Mark Doliner:
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Ali Albazaz<me at melixer.de>  wrote:
>    
>> Hey!
>>
>> My Name is Ali Albazaz, 20. I Study Computer Science in Bonn, Germany,
>> second semester.
>> When I was 16 I was involved in the gaim project the first time. There I
>> fixed some small
>> bugs with the help of Sean Egan and thats the reason why my name is still
>> available in the
>> Copyright file.
>>
>> Now I'm going to apply for the Google Sommer of Code Program and support
>> pidgin project.
>> I'm using pidgin now for 7 years mostly for ICQ  everyday (because ICQ is
>> very popular in
>> my region). Therefore I know about many feautures that the Original ICQ
>> Client supports
>> and the Pidgin ICQ-Implementation doesn't.
>>
>> Last week I started a survey (with 129 persons) to see which things are most
>> important to
>> the people and have to be implemented first. Here are their suggestions
>> ordered by popularity:
>>
>> - About every 4th person complained about the file transfer problem between
>> other clients.
>> - Many people want the old "block" function back because in the past it
>> people got blocked
>>      couldn't see one online but were able to write one. The new function is
>> useful but removing the
>>      old function is wrong. The people need both of the functions.
>> - Webcam and voice chat should be implemented
>> - Flash games
>> - Authorization problems: after the authorization sometimes the people are
>> two times in my list and if I remove one of them they both disapear
>> - Status-Messages doesn't work between other clients
>> - Invisible status doesn't work sometimes
>>
>> The other suggestions are good but not so popular like these mentioned
>> above. Therefore I picked out these themes:
>> Filetransfer, block-function, Autorization, Status Messages and if there is
>> time the invisible status.
>>
>> I want to fix this things between May 24th and August 9th - that means in 11
>> Weeks.
>> Maybe you have some instructions or hints to me? Are there things that are
>> something like undevelopable in 11 weeks? :-D
>> I would be glad! :-)
>>      
> I think that's a great list, and definitely feasible in 11 weeks.  You
> could possible add more to it, but I'm not sure what.  Maybe better
> handling of character encoding for offline messages.
>
> Also, you may want to look at last summer's privacy improvement
> project: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/GSoC2009/PrivacyRewrite  It
> hoped to improve the usability of blocking vs. invisibility for ICQ.
>
> --Mark
>
>    
Are you sure I should add more to the list? I mean I have other good 
ideas from the survey but I'm also a student and have to study in that 
time and learn a bit at home... ;-)
When they take me I have about one month time to read some code and to 
settle in. But I've no idea how complex the oscar part is built. Maybe I 
add more Ideas to the "If there is time I'll do" list.
Other popular things are:
- The profile picture is smaller than in ICQ
- Text styling (Bold, Italic, Font-Size...)
- While searching numbers in the history it shouldn't search in time-stamps
- Filter for Bots wanting authorization (Spam filter)

Can anyone tell me what things goolge is expecting? I really want to do 
this job but don't know how to have the best application :-\

-- 
Ali Albazaz
Am Jesuitenhof 3 / 963
53117 Bonn
Mobile: (+49) 170 8647236
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