[Campus-morris-staff] suggestions for projects?

[Elena Machkasova]

That makes sense. Ok, then I can be a mentor for Java, as long as I know
what the goals are. We might have to meet briefly and chat about it.

Elena

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Jim Hall <jhall at morris.umn.edu> wrote:

> 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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