Hello, I would like to work on the project "Simple Social Networking for Roller blog server" mentioned in [1]
Currently I am working on a project to integrate Open Social API to a gadget container using Apache Shindig. I spent quite some amount of time in studying about Open Social API and Apache Shindig. As I think integrating the OpenSocial API to Roller alone requires quite a lot of work. If it is integrated, then we can easily build the other features mentioned in the project idea (i.e: about Activities etc). My simplified project idea is to initially work on the Open Social integration. So, will it be a good project idea to start with Open Social API integration to Roller and then building the other features if the scope is suitable for a GSoC project? Since I have being involved in similar project and I have some idea about Open Social API and Apache Shindig, I believe such a project will suit me for GSoC 2010. As I believe OpenSocial integration is an important feature for Roller. Could you please share your thoughts about the importance of this feature for Roller in current context? As I know there are about five projects listed for Roller last time and none of them get done at GSoC. Is it because of the importance of the project ideas of other ASF projects? If the community agree with this idea, will you be able to propose this idea to google or do I need to propose this to ASF or somebody else? What is the procedure takes place at ASF? Other than this project idea, if you need some other important work to be done for Roller, could you please let me know, so that I can look at it. I really want to participate at GSoC this time and hope that some Roller projects will be in this time. Thanks, Umashanthi [1] http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2009#roller
