Ros-general April 2006

ros-general@reactos.org

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6 discussions

by Roman Hoegg

Hello everybody! My name is Roman Högg (RomanH) and I have occasionally posted to this mailing list and the web site forum in the past for a variety of reasons. (offering/asking for help, submitting the Swiss German keyboard layout, etc.) I now contact you for something completely different. Together with the Helsinki School of Economics, Luleå University of Technology, Nokia and IBM Business Services, our institute ( http://www.mcm.unisg.ch ) is conducting a study called "Collabora-tion4Innovation (C4I)". The study is funded by the European Commission and is examining the im-pact of diversity within teams on factors such as innovation, creativity and productivity. By diversity we mean things like cultural diversity, different skills, different educational backgrounds, etc. In the first phase of the project we are currently conducting a number of case studies from a variety of areas. The goal is to find the "state of the art" and later define areas in which further research is needed (e.g. organisational aspects such as process design, improving collaboration technologies, etc.) Since ReactOS is - as far as I can see - developed by a pretty diverse set of people (developers from different countries, probably with different skills and non-developers/users/testers that try to improve the software in whatever way they can) I wanted to ask whether it would be possible to conduct a "Reac-tOS Case Study". I think it would be nice to not only have companies in the case studies. If you agree to this idea, I would like to conduct interviews with 2-3 persons of you (in English or German, most likely via phone). Each interview would last between 45 minutes and 1,5h maximum. (or I could send the questionnaire/interview guide in advance and we would only discuss the more open questions over the phone). After the interviews I would condense everything into a 3-4 page description of the project and the aspect of diversity. You would then get that text and could tell me whether you agree with it or whether I would have to change things. Nothing will be published without your consent! Unfortunately I can't offer you any money for the collaboration, but I think the study will give the project some additional promotion and, if you want to, you may of course use my text for documenta-tion purposes. Please let me know what you think and thank you very much!!! kind regards Roman ------------------------------------------ Roman Högg Research Assistant =mcm institute for Media and Communications Management University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Blumenbergplatz 9, 9000 St. Gallen Phone +41 (0)71 224 34 39 Mobile +41 (0)79 418 59 13 e-mail roman.hoegg(a)unisg.ch http://www.mcm.unisg.ch http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/Personen/Roman_Hoegg

18 years, 4 months

My intent to participate in Summer of Code 2006

by Michael DePaulo

Hello, I am sending this to let people know that I intend to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2006 for ReactOS, and to see if anybody has any suggestions for a beginner programmer like me. Allow me to introduce myself for those of you who do not know me as mikedep333 already. My name is Michael DePaulo, I am just finishing my 1st year at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio (US). I know English and some Spanish. I consider this project to be a great idea and I hope to see it do a lot better. So far I have been trying to help it out by answering visitor questions on #reactos, entering info into the wiki, and whatnot, but I intend to actually start coding for this project with such a worthy vision. Unfortunately I only have taken one introductory programming course, and it was only in Java, although I have a relatively good understanding of the components of Windows and how they work together. I also am pretty familiar with GNU/linux and mingw. Therefore I need to determine what I would be capable of doing with my limited experience and selecting the best part of ROS to work on in time for the SoC application deadline (May 8th.) I was thinking of working on an application bundled with ROS (which should work with wine too) such as wordpad or imagesoft, (which is like MS paint), both of which are being done by Ged Murphy at the moment. My friend suggested writing a driver like for NICs since we already have the pcnet and ne2000 ones to act as templates and I'd just be working with an interface, but I was under the impression that writing drivers in general requires a lot of experience and you risk crashing the kernel a lot. Even if I cannot complete a SoC project, I still intend to help code for this project this summer. I will continue to help develop it onwards too. If anyone has any advice or anything else to tell me, feel free to share it. I can be found in #reactos usually and will be checking ros-general pretty closely. Also, I know that everyone around here uses the quotation style of using only a portion of text above what you're about to say with the > next to it. Until evolution or mozilla lightning works with my new palm, I will be using Outlook 2003 primarily. Is there a way to easily quote using that method in outlook? Best Regards, Mike DePaulo

18 years, 11 months

RE: [ros-general] Google Summer Of Code 2006 mentoring organizati onrequest

by Murphy, Ged (Bolton)

Aleksey Bragin wrote: > Meanwhile, we already should start compiling a list of > project's suggestions > for it. Everyone is welcome to provide suggested projects, > however please > have in mind that only 1 student can do 1 project (or > separate part of the > bigger project). The project should sound interesting to a > student who takes > it, it should be doable and should have exact tasks to do. I think it would be beneficial to approach this in the manner projects are put forward for degree courses. That being that each potential project should have some background info and a description of the project itself. Each project should also be assigned a sponsor / mentor as this is generally a requirement of all major undertaken in degree courses. We should therefore not put projects forward which no developer is prepared to sponsor and we should refrain from providing projects with one line descriptions. Ged. ************************************************************************ The information contained in this message or any of its attachments is confidential and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee. The information may also be legally privileged. The views expressed may not be company policy, but the personal views of the originator. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other dissemination or use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact postmaster(a)exideuk.co.uk <mailto:postmaster@exideuk.co.uk> and then delete this message. Exide Technologies is an industrial and transportation battery producer and recycler with operations in 89 countries. Further information can be found at www.exide.com

18 years, 11 months

Re:[ros-general] Google Summer Of Code 2006 mentoring organizationrequest

by Saveliy Tretiakov

>Improving WIDL so we have to stop relying on >MIDL (for RPC stuff, this is CRITICAL for ROS services) Bad task. Midl format strings are undocumented. Only few hackers can implement them. Only improving widl won't help us because some rpcrt4 features are not implemented too. Eric Kohl is already working on some missing widl features.

18 years, 11 months

Google Summer Of Code 2006 mentoring organization request

by Aleksey Bragin

Hello, I just want to let you know that I submitted a request to Google's Summer Of Code 2006, for ReactOS Foundation to become a mentoring organization in SOC 2006. I will let you know their decision as soon as they send the reply to me. With the best regards, Aleksey Bragin.

18 years, 11 months

New wiki main page

by Aleksey Bragin

Hello, I am glad to announce that the ReactOS Wiki now has a new main page. It is based on a Dominik's design, however slightly changed colors by me, and also necessary contents added too. Of course (since it's a wiki!) the other pages, and the main page itself still needs work on better categorizing / moving references / etc, so feel free to do it! But the main objective has been reached now - the old wiki main page has gone (actually it's moved to Old Main Page article), and new, much more useful and clear has been placed instead. Thanks to all who contributed to the new wiki main page! http://wiki.reactos.org With the best regards, Aleksey Bragin.

18 years, 12 months

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