hi,

FOSSASIA has been accepted for Google Summer of Code, and i have a few
smalltalk related projects in there, see http://labs.fossasia.org/ideas.html

i'd like to ask if anyone is willing to help me mentor those projects.
since i am new to smalltalk myself it would be good to have some backup by
someone more experienced.

mentoring a student as a team i am sure is a lot more fun, and should make it
easier to get the student motivated to join the pharo community and contribute
to pharo.

greetings, martin.

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Martin Bähr wrote

FOSSASIA has been accepted for Google Summer of Code, and i have a few
smalltalk related projects

Awesome!!

Martin Bähr wrote

i'd like to ask if anyone is willing to help me mentor those projects.

I can probably help you with "Offline text search" (my preference) or possibly "file editor and asset manager".

Two questions:
1) Text Search mentions "in a specified directory on the mobile device", but the rest of the description sounded like a desktop app. Which is it? Mobile would add quite another dimension. Maybe a web app could be doable, but IMHO a native mobile app is probably outside the scope of a GSoC project.
2) File Editor talks about editing assets, the list of which includes images. Do you expect to be able to edit images from within Pharo, or did that apply to the text-based assets (which most were)? General image editing within Pharo would be really cool, but sounds like a big job...

Excerpts from Sean P. DeNigris's message of 2015-03-06 05:15:23 +0100:
> Martin Bähr wrote
> > i'd like to ask if anyone is willing to help me mentor those projects.
>
> I can probably help you with "Offline text search" (my preference) or
> possibly "file editor and asset manager".

wonderful!
offline text search is the more interesting project of the two for me as well.
at the moment though it is just answering generic questions about how to get
started with pharo.

we'll see next month which projects will be accepted.

> Two questions:
> 1) Text Search mentions "in a specified directory on the mobile device", but
> the rest of the description sounded like a desktop app. Which is it? Mobile
> would add quite another dimension. Maybe a web app could be doable, but IMHO
> a native mobile app is probably outside the scope of a GSoC project.

whoops! that is a copy paste error.
for exactly the reason you mention i have a separate project to just make a
mobile app with the same specs. (i'd love if it could be done in smalltalk, but
that's not going to work yet)
i fixed the description. thanks for catching that!

> 2) File Editor talks about editing assets, the list of which includes
> images. Do you expect to be able to edit images from within Pharo, or did
> that apply to the text-based assets (which most were)? General image editing
> within Pharo would be really cool, but sounds like a big job...

i am fine if just text editing works. image "editing" could be solved by just
making it easy to load a new image.

i'd appreciate if you could join the [hidden email] list
http://groups.google.com/group/fossasia and help answer the students initial replies.

which is basically: download pharo, look at tutorials, start reading pharo by
example and look for spec questions on the list.

for the editor project i also have http://societyserver.org/mbaehr/training/
where i show how to store a static website in an image, and the basic idea is
to make that editable, and also add a control panel for the server, similar to
the one for seaside. this would make a nice add-on package for zinc.

so far most students are interested in the search application...

next week i am off for the FOSSASIA conference in singapore, (where i'll give a
workshop about building a REST api with Zinc-REST) so i'll have little time to
check email. if you could help especially in that time, i'd really appreciate
it. after the conference students will start to make proposals and in april
we'll decide which roposals to accept. things should be more quiet then.

greetings, martin.

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Excerpts from S Krish's message of 2015-03-06 08:26:53 +0100:
> Create a file editor and asset manager solution with smalltalk
>
> I would be interested in assisting in this project. Harks me back to what I
> attempted with VisualWorks and SimpleWeb Framework I created more than a
> decade back with complete editor / projects IDE that had artifacts covering
> all that is mentioned as also config for external interfaces like DB.

indeed, i haven't even got that far in my webdevelopment, but yes, managing
external connections would be a great addition. let's see what the students are
capable of.

> But tough challenge if we are to talk of creating a capable color editor
> with intellisense across various artifacts, otherwise doable as a student
> project.

don't need to go that far. i'd be happy if we can edit text and otherwise
update binary files from an external source.

please sign up for the fossasia list. see the instructions in my previous reply to Sean.

greetings, martin.

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Le 6/3/15 05:15, Sean P. DeNigris a écrit : You should have a look at te project made by benjamin Areski because
with camillo they developed
a textsearch to searh the entire pharo image fast.

Excerpts from stepharo's message of 2015-03-08 21:06:46 +0100:
> You should have a look at te project made by benjamin Areski because
> with camillo they developed
> a textsearch to searh the entire pharo image fast.

can you give a link please?
i could not find anything on google.

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Excerpts from Martin Bähr's message of 2015-03-10 06:35:00 +0100:
> Excerpts from stepharo's message of 2015-03-08 21:06:46 +0100:
> > You should have a look at te project made by benjamin Areski because
> > with camillo they developed
> > a textsearch to searh the entire pharo image fast.
>
> can you give a link please?
> i could not find anything on google.

found it:
http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~BenjA/FullTextSearch
thank you!

greetings, martin.

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