[Gsoc-students] Google. Summer of Code proposal question

[Martin Aspeli]

Justin,

Please keep SoC related discussions on this list so that we can know 
what is being said, what advice is being given, and how it fits in with 
our general approach to present ourselves to Google.

Martin

Justizin wrote:
> Ah,s orry, michael asked for direct replies and I'd like to note that
> I did open dialogue with him on this and would be willing to mentor on
> this though I may not be the most qualified.
> 
> Alecm spooke up on blogging or some other proposal thread wrt listen,
> and it can't be hard to find one of my diatribes on how issue
> tracking, blogging, discussion boards, mailing lists, etc.. have some
> similarities that could be parts of new framework layer, maybe
> plone.app?
> 
> On 3/23/07, miken087 at berkeley.edu <miken087 at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> My name is Michael Ngo and I am currently studying Computer Science at
>> University of California, Berkeley. Currently I am interested in
>> contributing to Plone by working on the email handling system. My question
>> is whether this proposal will affect Plone's core system or will it be
>> added to Plone as an add on? My abstract for the proposal is attached at
>> the end of the email.  Lastly any comments on my abstract will be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Michael Ngo
>>
>>
>> This proposal will improve the current email handling system in Plone by
>> incorporating an email-blog gateway feature to:
>> 1. allow incoming email messages (in Plone) to be converted to new blog
>> entries, and
>> 2. allow new blog entries (and comments on blog entries) to generate
>> outgoing email messages to anyone subscribed to a blog's watchlist.
>>
>> The mail-blog gateway would offer richer functionality than an email-only
>> subscription list, as the user is free to choose to receive notifications
>> of new entries as: an RSS or Atom feed, or as an email notification.  As
>> the user is able to add new entries to the blog simply by sending an email
>> to the mail-blog gateway in Plone, all mailing list entries are
>> transparently logged in Plone for archival purposes.
>>
>> The mail-blog gateway feature may initially be implemented as an add-on
>> product to avoid bloating Plone's core code base. Plone's core framework
>> team would decide at a later time if the add-on product is valuable enough
>> to be included as a core feature in a future release of Plone, a discussion
>> beyond the scope of this proposal.
>>
>> The mail-blog gateway aims to offer an improved method of getting content
>> into the system and exporting content out of the system. The gateway will
>> address Plone improvement proposal (PLIP) 182:
>>
>> http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/182
>>
>> and may address parts of PLIP 183 as well.
>>
>> http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/183
>>
>>
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