[GSoC] - File Upload Module Proposal

gskspurs

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Apr 6, 2010, 8:31:45 AM4/6/10

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I am Gareth. I'm 19 and come from the Gloucestershire, in the South-
West of England.
I am currently in my First Year of a Mathematics and Computer Science
Degree at the Unviersty of Bristol.
I am not the most experienced programmer but I hope my motivation and
determination to achieve will allow me to overcome my lack of
experience and succeed in the project, if I am selected. I have
experience with C, Java and Haskell so hopefully this should give me a
good backbone to working with BigBlueButton.
Hopefully you can give me some advice and guidance!

My proposal is the creation of a module for BigBlueButton that allows
users to upload files to a conference:
• Backend using Java that allows the communication with Tomcat.
• Graphical interface within BigBlueButton that allows selection of
files and uploading of them to the server.
• Frontend interface using Flex and Actionscript that is simple and
easy to use but functional.
• Notifications of upload/download completion in the BigBlueButton
Chat area
• Progress bar for upload.
• Ability to upload before start of conference or during the
conference.

Any comments or help is much appreciated,
Thanks,
Gareth Knowles
gsks...@gmail.com

Denis Zgonjanin

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Apr 7, 2010, 11:19:13 PM4/7/10

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Hi Gareth,

Great to hear you're interested, sorry nobody has replied to you quickly. Here's some feedback:

- No worries if you lack for experience, we're evaluating the quality of proposals submitted, so just make sure you submit a kick-ass proposal.

- I agree with all your points, that's pretty much exactly what we're looking for in this idea

- Some GUI mock-ups could go a long way - give us your vision of what the module will look like

- Download a bbb VM and play with it, or if you have time - install bbb from source. Since you say you lack experience but not motivation, a lot of people starting out find installing bbb from source a great experience builder and also an exercise in persistence

- Denis

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gskspurs

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Apr 8, 2010, 10:54:17 AM4/8/10

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HI Denis,
Thanks for your reply, really appreciate it.

Hopefully my proposal is kick-ass! :)
I have uploaded a GUI mock-up now, would love some feedback on it, it
is here: http://gskspurs.co.uk/MockGUIwithLables.jpg
I have already managed to get BBB working from source on my VMware
install of Ubuntu 9.10.
I had a small issue with it not displaying the BBB page, getting a
"Welcome to nginx" message instead.
I managed to fix this by copying the contents of the /etc/nginx/sites-
available/bigbluebutton file to the /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
file. I then restarted all the services, including restarting nginx.
Now have BBB fully installed from Source and working! I found the
use of vi to edit files really interesting as I have never used it
before, the fact that its on all Linux installs and can be used
straight from the console makes it really useful!

Gareth

On Apr 8, 4:19 am, Denis Zgonjanin <me.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Gareth,
>
> Great to hear you're interested, sorry nobody has replied to you quickly.
> Here's some feedback:
> - No worries if you lack for experience, we're evaluating the quality of
> proposals submitted, so just make sure you submit a kick-ass proposal.
> - I agree with all your points, that's pretty much exactly what we're
> looking for in this idea
> - Some GUI mock-ups could go a long way - give us your vision of what the
> module will look like
> - Download a bbb VM and play with it, or if you have time - install bbb from
> source. Since you say you lack experience but not motivation, a lot of
> people starting out find installing bbb from source a great experience
> builder and also an exercise in persistence
>
> - Denis
>

> > gsksp...@gmail.com

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