[Campus-morris-staff] suggestions for projects?

[Elena Machkasova]

Jim,

these are all great projects! My only concern is that there are three
projects and only one of you, so we should have additional mentors for some
of those. I can help out with the PHP one or the documentation one, any
other volunteers to help out with any projects suggested by Jim? Thanks!

Elena

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Jim Hall <jhall at morris.umn.edu> wrote:

> For students who know PHP, I have also been thinking about cleaning up the FreeDOS
> News page <http://www.freedos.org/news/> on our website, so I can finally
> move off the old code, and promote the new News code as the basis of the
> front page news feed. This will require some refactoring of the existing
> News code, since it's a little kludgy.
>
> It's not very big code (it just displays a news feed, using MagpieRSS as
> the RSS aggregator) and should be do-able within an hour. I was going to
> put aside some time eventually to do the cleanup; may as well get help from
> someone during this weekend's event. [?]
>
>
>
> Details:
>
> The FreeDOS News page should display a feed of all news items from our
> SourceForge project news RSS, at <
> http://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/feed>. The SourceForge RSS links
> back to items in the SourceForge news system (no surprise there) but I
> prefer to have the FreeDOS News page link back to items on the FreeDOS News
> page. For example, rather than having a FreeDOS News item link to <
> http://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2014/09/carbonos-based-on-freedos/>
> it should link to something like <
> http://www.freedos.org/news/?item=2014/09/carbonos-based-on-freedos/>
>
> I wrote code to munge the SourceForge RSS to do this <
> http://www.freedos.org/news/rss.php> but it was a quick effort, and I
> never went back to completely update the FreeDOS News page to use the new
> code. I'm still using a kludge mix of old and new code, so FreeDOS News
> items aren't actually linking back to the FreeDOS News page.
>
>
>
> ​jh
>
>
> ​
>
> On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Elena Machkasova <elenam at morris.umn.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Jim,
>>
>> all of this sounds fantastic! We'll have quite a few people who would
>> like to play with cool Java, and it's great to have a documentation-based
>> project for beginners.
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone has anything along the lines of refactoring or
>> writing tests. I would've had this for my Clojure project
>> https://github.com/Clojure-Intro-Course/clojure-intro-class, but my
>> summer research students cleaned up and tested it pretty well. I will try
>> to come up with a couple of simple Clojure tasks, though, for the Racket
>> crowd.
>>
>> Elena
>>
>>
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