GSoC project idea for a lightweight chat plugin

[Hasanga Somaratne]

Hi,

 I'm a student from University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. The idea of a lightweight chat plugin sparked my interest as I have been recently

working with WebSockets via Socket.io for NodeJS. I think it would be a simple and lightweight enough solution to implement the functionality.

Examples of Socket.io projects that I have contributed to can be found here and here.

Expecting a reply soon.

Regards.

[Scott Cain]

Hi Hasanga,

The best place to start is by contacting the developers involved with that project, Ian Holmes (ihho...@gmail.com) and Eric Yao (eri...@berkeley.edu), directly to get the conversation started.  There is also a JBrowse mailing list at gmod...@lists.sourceforge.net.

Good luck,
Scott

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[Ian Holmes]

Hi Hasanga,

Further to my last email, I also recommend reading this guide:

http://teom.org/blog/kde/how-to-write-a-kick-ass-proposal-for-google-summer-of-code/

Best, Ian

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Ian Holmes <ihho...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Hasanga,

Great to hear you're interested in the project!

Socket.io could work. We do already have a faye server running as an (experimental) part of JBrowse, and that can use websockets as an optional transport. I was thinking it would be easier to latch onto that, though i guess you should write the proposal how you think it would work best.

Cheers,
Ian