Project Ideas for GNU FM/Libre.fm

[Mike Sheldon]

Hi,

 Sorry for the late submission of these ideas, it took us a little
longer to get our act together on these than it should have.


Project details
===============

 GNU FM is free software for running music community websites, allowing
users to keep track of their listening habits whilst retaining full
ownership of their data. It is the software behind Libre.fm which helps
to promote freely licensed music.

  Primary mentors:
        * Mike Sheldon (Elleo) - address@hidden
        * Jørgen Bøhnsdalen (jurg) - address@hidden
  Backup mentors:
        * Kuno Woudt (warp) - address@hidden

  Project info: http://www.gnu.org/software/fm
  Project mailing list:
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/librefm-discuss
  Project irc channel: #libre.fm on irc.freenode.net


Ideas
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Integration with audio production software
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 This will require the creation of suitable web-service methods for
allowing artists to publish their songs directly from their audio
editors. In addition to writing the server side components the student
should also write an example plugin for the Jokosher audio editor
(http://www.jokosher.org), which will upload music files and licensing
details to archive.org and use the web-service methods they create to
pass these details on to a GNU FM instance.

 (Mike Sheldon is also a Jokosher developer, so can help mentor this
side of things).


OpenID Support
--------------

 The student will need to add the facility to create accounts and login
via OpenID. In addition to OpenID support for the main web front-end it
should be made possible to perform web-service authentication via OpenID
as well.

 This may not be enough work for a single GSoC project and could
potentially be included as part of the GNU Social project below if a
particularly capable candidate is found.


FOAF/GNU Social Integration
---------------------------

 This project would make it possible for GNU FM to pull some data from
GNU Social (http://www.gnu.org/software/social) and vice-versa, as such
some aspects will require work on GNU FM and others on GNU Social.

 From the GNU FM side the student should add the facility to pull in
FOAF data from GNU Social (and optionally other services, such as
identi.ca) and populate the user's friends list based upon it.

 From the GNU Social side the student should create a simple plugin for
GNU Social that can display statistics about a user's GNU FM account
(e.g. recently heard tracks, favourite tracks, the ability to listen to
that user's personal radio stream, etc.).

 If the OpenID task is undertaken by another student then towards the
end of the project the two students could optionally collaborate to make
this functionality automatic when a user creates an account with a GNU
Social OpenID.


Cheers,
 Mike.