[Cs22800] Welcome to CS22800 - Spring 2003

[Ken Tsang]

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This is the CS22800 Weekly Newsletter for the week of April 13, 2003.
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Introductions
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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
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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 at uchicago.edu
  2. zrscott at 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
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Brian[5] is working on Liferay[6], a J2EE web portal application geared  
for enterprise.

  5. brian_kim1 at hotmail.com
  6. http://www.liferay.com/

Eric Lee and Ken Tsang
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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 at midway.uchicago.edu
  8. kftsang at 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

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Project Statements
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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/

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Closing Remarks
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Feel free to post questions/comments/updates/etc. to the list. This  
should prove to be an interesting and exciting quarter.

Ken <kftsang at cs.uchicago.edu>