Hi! My name is Valentín Barros and I'm interested in applying to this Google Summer of Code, and my principal project (and maybe the only) will be to code to Shotwell. I want to implement the feature about playing videos directly by Shotwell (#2820).
I think that this only feature would be a short thing to implement in a GSoC, but just in case, I'm writing this to ask if you consider that it could be more hard and I'm missing something. So, let me introduce myself: I'm Spanish, I'm 22 years old and I study Technical Engineering in Computer Systems in A Coruña. I also work as a freelance web developer since 2008 and I've been studying (self-taught) computer-related stuff since I was 16. My principal programing language is PHP, but I'm also comfortable with C and some others. I know a bit of GTK+ and I've played with GStreamer, Cairo and Clutter —but I've never done anything big with those because at this time my main occupation is web development and the studies. Maybe the most representative application I've wrote is a very simple image viewer/organizer written in Python with PyGTK —it has a people tagging functionality like the one in Facebook, and it generates some XML files and renames photos with that tags information to help me manage my collection of thousands of photos that I have taken with my cameras (yes, I like taking photos :p ). Writing it I have improved my skills with Python and I've learned how to create custom GTK widgets. >From now to "Students begin coding" I have about 8-10 hours/week to continue learning Vala/GTK+/GStreamer/Shotwell, and during GSoC I would spend 40 hours/week working on this. So, do you think that implementing a video player could be enough to this GSoC or I should add some other sub task to my application? I'm also thinking in other idea: To implement a people tagging system, like the one Facebook (and I believe also Picasa) has, allowing the user to add people to the photos and later do searches and so —I mean, the same tags system Shotwell already has, but people-focused, and allowing the user to situate the tag in some position inside the photo rather than applying it to the entire file. What do you thing about this? Thanks for your time! :) _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
