First I would like to introduce myself. I'm Steren Giannini, a French student from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, a college of general engeneering. I'm working as a tech intern at Creative Commons SF. It's for me the first time I cross the Atlantic, so this stay in San Francisco is a real adventure. I'm very proud to do my part in the CC revolution.
During my school years, I created websites for companies (to make some spending money ;) ) and I recently worked on Inkscape : I've been enhancing the Live Path Effect system.
The first goal of my project at CC is to improve the internal task and project tracking system. It uses Semantic MediaWiki. Today tasks can be created and assigned to users. What I have to do is to add email notification to the system.
This means :
- send email to the assigned users when a task changes
- send "reminder" emails to assigned users when due dates are approaching.
So yesterday I started by reading some documentation about Semantic Web in general, RDF specification, MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki. Then I installed MediaWiki on my localhost in order to have a closer look to the code.
My first goal is to get used to the existing system before codding something.