From kftsang at cs.uchicago.edu Fri Apr 11 22:32:56 2003 From: kftsang at cs.uchicago.edu (Ken Tsang) Date: Thu May 18 12:41:36 2006 Subject: [Cs22800] Welcome to CS22800 - Spring 2003 Message-ID: <734D54B0-6C97-11D7-9CA6-000393D2CEEA@cs.uchicago.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- CS22800 Weekly Newsletter http://mailman.cs.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/cs22800 This is the CS22800 Weekly Newsletter for the week of April 13, 2003. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- ============= Introductions ============= Greetings to Prof. O'Donnell, CS22800 students, and friends. I just wanted to send out an email to kick off this quarter's CS22800 mailing list. So here it is. There are five students enrolled in the Spring 2003 Free Software Practicum at The University of Chicago: Stephen Dranger and Ziba Scott ------------------------------ Stephen[1] and Ziba[2] are continuing their work from the fall[3], which centers around creating a taskbar for the in-development 0.17 release of the Enlightenment[4] window manager (and soon-to-be desktop shell) for Linux. 1. stdrange@uchicago.edu 2. zrscott@uchicago.edu 3. http://www.classes.cs.uchicago.edu/classes/archive/2002/fall/22800-1/ ziba_stephen.txt 4. http://www.enlightenment.org/ Brian Kim --------- Brian[5] is working on Liferay[6], a J2EE web portal application geared for enterprise. 5. brian_kim1@hotmail.com 6. http://www.liferay.com/ Eric Lee and Ken Tsang ---------------------- Eric[7] and Ken[8] are working on Fire[9], a multi-protocol (AIM/ICQ/MSN/Yahoo!/IRC/Jabber) instant messaging client for Mac OS X, by providing significant (and well-needed) user interface improvements to be incorporated into the 1.0 release (currently scheduled for the end of May). The ultimate goal for Fire 1.0 is to replace completely a user's reliance on any native messaging clients. So far, this work has included minor projects, such as porting the "smileys" from the Windows ICQ client. Forthcoming is a complete overhaul of the extensive preferences user interface, which can be considered "a bit confusing." Ken has also provided a complete localization for both Simplified and Traditional Chinese systems for the current 0.32 branch, and will be bringing Chinese to 1.0 when the localization freeze takes place sometime in May. 7. ericlee1@midway.uchicago.edu 8. kftsang@cs.uchicago.edu 9. http://fire.sourceforge.net/ According to SourceForge statistics[10], Fire's rank has shot up wildly since we started working on the project (currently ranked at 11)[11]. Coincidence? Or did we spark a trend? :) 10. http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/?group_id=33772 11. http://sourceforge.net/top/mostactive.php?type=week ================== Project Statements ================== For all teams, project statements will be forthcoming and will be posted both here on the mailing list and at the course website[12] maintained by Brian Kim (as of posting time, course website is not yet up): 12. http://www.classes.cs.uchicago.edu/classes/archive/2003/spring/22800-1/ =============== Closing Remarks =============== Feel free to post questions/comments/updates/etc. to the list. This should prove to be an interesting and exciting quarter. Ken From michael_odonnell at acm.org Sat Apr 12 07:35:58 2003 From: michael_odonnell at acm.org (Michael J. O'Donnell) Date: Thu May 18 12:41:36 2006 Subject: [Cs22800] Free Software Practicum spring 2003 meeting schedule Message-ID: <3E98082E.5020701@acm.org> The Free Software Practicum (Com Sci 22800) is meeting during spring quarter 2003 at 12:00 noon every Thursday in Ryerson 257. Auditors are welcome. I recommend that you bring a lunch. Mike O'D. From kftsang at cs.uchicago.edu Sun Apr 13 19:04:10 2003 From: kftsang at cs.uchicago.edu (Ken Tsang) Date: Thu May 18 12:41:36 2006 Subject: [Cs22800] Fire 0.32.d release Message-ID: <9E94A37E-6E0C-11D7-801F-000393D2CEEA@cs.uchicago.edu> Just wanted to report that Fire 0.32.d[1] is out, which includes my Traditional and Simplified Chinese localizations: 1. http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fire/Fire.app0.32.d.dmg?download The README[2]: 2. http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/fire/fire/ Fire-README.txt?rev=1.1.2.14 And for the first time in awhile, Fire has cracked the SourceForge top 10[3]: 3. http://sourceforge.net/top/mostactive.php?type=week Ken