GSOC 2011: An Open Source CBT Platform

[Ahmed Hassan]

Hello every body:

My name is Ahmed, and I'm the owner of Linuxism website http://Linuxism.com/
I posted the following message on Google Summer Code's website.


The post explains everything.

---- message ---
Hello Mr.Rix:

--Have you done anything to find a mentor for this project?--

I'm trying to join redhat-summer mailing list to find any mentor for
my project. My account is still in pending. I thought that I can find
a mentor over here at this application

-- What code will need to be written for this summer? --

A web application that hosts an Educational Linux videos
(e.g:www.khanacademy.org, or my website http://Linuxism.com) a desktop
client that can access that web application and interact with the web
application to download the videos and comment on it.

It can also stores it offline for furthor usages. The web application
will be written in Django. The client will be written in PyQt. -

-Could you please also include a time line for your project?--

Rough time line starts from May 30th to August 28th.

Week number 22 I will post all the features of the web app and the
client.

Weeks from 22 to 35: Recording videos are going to be every starts
from 30th of May to August 28th. Sunday is not included, because I
will need one day to rest. At the same time,

from weeks 22 to 26. I will write the code for the web application in
Django..

* weeks 22 to 24 I will write the core and the back engine of the web
app.

* weeks from 24 to 26 I will write the UI. I may code it in
JavaScript.

Weeks from 26 to 35 I will code the client. The client will interact
with the web app through XML. Videos are going to be hosted at
youtube.

--products are--

Videos that teaches how to use Linux from the scratch.

A web application that host my videos and interact with comments
system..etc and a place to upload sound files to recompile the videos
in different languages.

A Client that can interact with the web applications.
---end message ---


I was thinking about an online website like Khan Academy that teaches
people how to use Linux by videos.
I made something similar in Arabic, I got about 40K views in about 6
month, and I'm willing to re-do it in English again during the summer.

I'm looking for a mentor, and I would like anyone to become a mentor
for my project.

--
Ahmed Hassan
http://Linuxism.com