[Campus-morris-staff] suggestions for projects?

[Jim Hall]

I think it would be great to have someone other than me be mentor for the
java programming. I don't know how to write java, so I'm not able to help
with hands-on work.
On Sep 8, 2014 3:05 PM, "Elena Machkasova" <elenam at morris.umn.edu> wrote:

> 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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