Banshee

In the last class my team decided to work on the program Banshee, which is a media manager and music player. It is written in C#. I have some experience with C and have begun studying how C# differs from it. Banshee has an official IRC channel and an extensive bug list, which should both be helpful.

Picking a project

In class Thursday my team worked on picking a project for the semester. We are all familiar with Java and some of us have experience in C, so at first we looked for projects in those languages. But eventually we decided that we are all capable of learning a new language fairly quickly, and what was most important in a project was the amount of documentation available and the willingness of the team to cooperate with new members. Since then, we have all be researching projects in more depth. My favorite is Amarok; ( http://amarok.kde.org/ ) a music player and media manager. Every project on the list my teammates and I made looks promising, though.

First Post

The first day of class was primarily spent forming a team that I will be working on an HFOSS (Humanitarian Free Open Source Software) project with this semester. This process was familiar since I have studied Software Engineering before. However, 462 also includes some new things, like attending the Palmetto Open Source Software Conference. The list of speakers is impressive and the conference promises to be interesting. As for the assigned reading, section 2.5 about moving from being a user of open source software to a contributor encapsulates what I expect this course to be about.