Hi Ted, answers inline.
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abstractj
On February 21, 2014 at 2:02:34 PM, TedGoddard (ted.goddard(a)icesoft.com) wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
It has been a while, it's good to talk with you again.
ICEsoft is interested in building a first-class integration
between AeroGear
and BridgeIt -- AeroGear provides storage and security features
and BridgeIt
provides web-based device features (without the App Store aspect
of
Cordova). Even the push technologies are complementary and
I can be wrong, but that would be a great opportunity to your company submit ideas for
GSoC, but I can’t see how students would get familiarized with AeroGear. Is a great idea,
but would be nice to not mix things up.
could be
combined (but that looks like a much larger project, so could
be
investigated later).
I agree, the GSoC project needs to run it's own course -- but those
are cool
topics, so it would be interesting to also try a BridgeIt integration
for
any device features that were needed. If those projects didn't
go forward
before, ICEsoft could start them off as new AeroGear/BridgeIt
demos.
If the company is interested on such kind of integration, we are here to help, but again
it doesn’t seem to be the focus of GSoC. I would rather to have students learning with
Matthias about how the push technology works, writing Cordova plugins, playing with
Android….
(Mobile collaboration seems fairly important, as of yesterday
it's
apparently worth $19B.)
Yeah, mobile market has a ton of money for crappy apps like Whatsapp which doesn't
care about privacy. But the most valuable thing about GSoC is not money, but the knowledge
gained from such amazing experience.
Cheers,
Ted.