[Mailman-Developers] GSoC

[Florian Fuchs]

Hi Ana,

Am 26.03.12 19:03, schrieb Ana Cutillas:
> Hi,
> 
> my name is Ana Cutillas and I am a senior Computer Science student from
> Spain. I am really interested in working on the Mailman project either with
> you directly or with Systers.
> I have been reading the list of ideas to implement and I am very interested
> in the #6 Creating user profiles (
> http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2012/03/13/mailman-brainstorm/). I have been
> wanting to work on a project that involved data mining for a while now and
> I think this could be a good opportunity.

This would definitely be a very interesting GSOC project! It might
involve working on a couple of different ends of the mailman family,
like the django web ui (launchpad.net/postorius), the archiver/searcher
(see "hyperkitty" - Toshio Kuratomi probably has more details) and maybe
even the Mailman3 core (see: launchpad.net/mailman).

> In general, I think profiles should have the really straightforward
> information: last time they started a conversation, last time they sent an
> email to the list, when did they sign up, what time of the day are they
> more active, etc. But it should be fairly easy to add cool stuff like, in
> case a list allows the use of more than one language, the language the user
> uses the most and maybe even percentages of usage, and with some
> information retrieval we could get keywords to know what they like to talk
> about the most.

Yes, those would all be very interesting pieces of data.

> I like some of the other ideas too, so I can talk to you about them if you
> want to.

Of course! I think a good place to start would be to install mailman and
postorius and have a look at the code. Also, Toshio could probably tell
you a little bit more about the current work on the archiver. You can
also find us on irc (#mailman on freenode, my handle is florianf,
Toshio's is abadger1999) if you run into problems or have any questions.

Florian