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September 16, 2014

Project Idea: harddisk search engine

by viggy — Categories: FSMK, project — Tags: , , , , , — 2 Comments

I do have loads of media files in my two external harddisks, one of 3TB and another of 1TB. And overtime the data is all over the place, in some cases, there are duplicates also and there is currently no way, I can easily remember if I have a particular data or not. Over all its a mess. Hence I need a good way to arrange all of this data and have a cache of its metadata in my laptop, so that it becomes very easy for me to search whether I have a particular media file available with me or not. Media can be anything from movies, documentaries, songs, iso images, series, etc.

So this are the requirements of such a software:

  •  Do full scan of HDD connected and collect all data available in it.
    • User should be able to give a minimum/maximum size of interest(files less than say 1MB may not be of importance)
    • User should be able to give formats of interest(User may just want video files to be listed/searched)
  • Should be able to update an existing scan so that only new files are added to it again
  • Using the collected data, user should be able to search a particular file based on filename/filetype/size etc

 

 

February 27, 2014

Online organizational activity dashboard

by viggy — Categories: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , — Leave a comment

I just installed github client on my phone and was following news feed in it. It should how many of the students that I was following were doing loads of activities on various projects. Though as organization we were not doing it, all these were volunteers of fsmk and were contributing mainly to free software community. That made me think that as an organization we should have a dashboard where we could sum up all these activities. So this is the idea.
A drupal plugin which can connect to various other plugins to fetch aggregated data from different sources on how organization is doing in various online platforms. It could the fsmk fb group, fsmk’s mailing list, fsmk’s blog planet, its event calendar in the drupal website itself, or more specific things like github activity or other technical forum activity. Can we aggregate all this and show in a single dashboard. This page will be autogenerated by drupal plugin. May be initially it can be a single website in itself and then we can see how to integrate it with drupal. So now this is another time in my bucket list. :-)

September 26, 2013

Project Idea: Hacker of the week through github and gitorious performance

by viggy — Categories: FSMK, linux, project, tech — Tags: , , , , — Leave a comment

Technology Required: Php/Python web frameworks like Django/RoR, Git, Mysql/MongoDB/Any other database.
FSMK has many students who have started using github and gitorious and keep working on their own projects or contribute to any existing free and open source projects hosted there. The idea is to have a web portal which keeps tracking the contribution/activity of various FSMK students on gitorious and github and rank them based on various factors. Ultimately, every week, Hacker of the week will automatically be announced. The project is to have a web portal to do this automatically every week without needing any manual intervention. There should be one way for students to register to this portal along with their github/gitorious id and the admin of the portal will approve the student’s registration. Similarly College of the week can be announced. The portal should also maintain a record of all the previous week results.

In Version 2, When a new user is registering, certain criteria needs to be met like number of active days on github/gitorious, number of times contributed to projects, minimum score based on various other criteria. Also whenever the coder of the week is announced, it needs to send email to fsmk-discuss mailing list and also update in FSMK Facebook group.

February 9, 2013

GNU/Linux uptime worldwide

by viggy — Categories: FSMK, linux, tech, ubuntu — Tags: , , , , — Leave a comment

Wont it be great to see what is the total time that users across the globe are spending on their GNU/Linux Desktops. What if every time a user signs in a system, their usage time is recorded and once in a while this usage data is uploaded in a server. We can then extract lots of data like how much time is being spent totally, which are most popular operating systems based used, based on average uptime, we can find out the type of users and their preferred operating systems.

For example, we can may be find that people who are using say 3-4 hours a day on GNU/Linux are mostly Ubuntu and people who are using say more than 12-14 hours a day are mostly on Debian or Mint giving an indication that new users choose Ubuntu but they slowly shift towards Debian or Mint. Again just a hypothetical example.

We can also plan to have a competition at GLUG level to see which GLUG is spending most of their time on GNU/Linux.

February 3, 2011

Interesting projects

by viggy — Categories: Uncategorized — Tags: , — Leave a comment

http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://ronja.twibright.com/about.php