Hi Cosmin!
I'm glad you liked our ideas!
You seem to be a good fir and to have a nice background!
Let me answer your question below...
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Cosmin Stefan-Dobrin <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Cosmin Stefan-Dobrin and I am a student at the Politechnics
> University of Bucharest, Computer Science faculty. I am an extremely
> passionate programmer (and soon-to-be engineer), who's always interested in
> the latest technologies and latest trends in IT development. I am
> interested in applying for Google Summer Of Code 2012, and the projects
> proposed by UMIT are extremely interesting. I'm a fast learner and I have
> quite a lot of experience in Java, C/C++, HTML, CSS, JS, SOAP/REST
> principles, Google Appengine and using git/svn as I've worked on numerous
> projects at the university and on my spare time (one of the biggest
> projects I've recently worked on is www.feedrz.com, which is only at its
> beginnings and which I have developed with a friend, during the free time).
>
> I am interested in working on Umit during the GSOC. Two of the proposed
> tasks ( *"Site Status"[1]* and any of the "*Android projects***" [2] or
> [3]) have particularly caught my attention, altough they're not the only
> UMIT projects that seem interesting. Anyway, I would like to know what
> should I do next (in the following days), to get better connected to the
> project?
You can checkout the repository for the android projects, run locally and
see how you can improve it.
For site status, we don't have code on the repo yet, but you can already
look for ideas to improve the original one.
> And, I am going to ask pretty straight and honest, which of the projects
> is the most important for Umit, as I would be interested in helping you
> with what you need most.
>
Open Monitor is definitely our most interesting and important project at
the moment. It has the potential to literally touch and help millions of
internet users world wide and is a very promising project in terms of
engineering challenges.
Nevertheless, all projects listed there are of great importance, although
we may not end up developing all of them.
> Regarding the projects, I would also have some questions:
>
>
>
> - for the Site Status project, I'm not sure if I've got the idea ok:
> We are supposed to develop a site-status system (as a web-page or as an
> addon?) that can be used by other web-developers in their own projects, so
> that when their main website is down, the users are redirected to this
> status page, where the described features are available? I have quite a lot
> of experience with GAE, JSP and servlets. Should it be developed with these
> technologies?
>
>
This is meant to be a standalone site, that can be easily used to monitor
any site on the web, regardless of the technology they are written. The
redirect feature is very important, althought it is little we can do to
automate this in a generic way for any website. But think of this as a full
featured system, that runs on its own, on different hosting server, relying
on different servers and services completely so it can reliable keep track
of availability of servers somewhere else. I am the one who envisioned this
idea, so if you need more insights, keep asking :)
>
> -
>
> [1] -
> http://dev.umitproject.org/projects/umitproject/wiki/GSoC2012Ideas#4-Site-Status<https://code.google.com/p/zaproxy/source/browse/trunk/src/org/zaproxy/clientapi/>
> [2] -
> http://dev.umitproject.org/projects/umitproject/wiki/GSoC2012Ideas#9-Network-Scanner-Android-Devices<http://dev.umitproject.org/projects/umitproject/wiki/GSoC2012Ideas#9-Network-Scanner-Android-Devices>
> [3] -
> http://dev.umitproject.org/projects/umitproject/wiki/GSoC2012Ideas#13-Mobile-Sniffer-for-Android<http://dev.umitproject.org/projects/umitproject/wiki/GSoC2012Ideas#13-Mobile-Sniffer-for-Android>
>
> Thank you and have a wonderful day,
> Cosmin
>
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