May 22

Miro hackfest in Boston

Posted by Will Kahn-Greene

I live in Somerville, MA, USA and I’d like to organize a Miro hackfest in or near Boston. Possible topics for that hackfest include:

  • cleaning up and improving the gtkx11 platform interface, gstreamer/xine use, …
  • working on bitesized bugs and working on unittests
  • hacking together an interface for Elisa or MythTV
  • testing out the fledgling Mozilla embedded API with the gtkx11 interface
  • sorting out packaging issues
  • other things?

I was thinking we’d do the hackfest sometime in June. Possibly as part of FUDCon10 or in the vicinity.

If you’re interested and/or have ideas, find me on IRC, email me, comment below, or send me telepathic messages of hope.

Date May 22nd, 2008 Filed in Miro

2 Responses to “Miro hackfest in Boston”

  1. Harry Says:
    May 27th, 2008 at 4:19 pm

    If I could ask for one thing for Miro it would be to decouple the front and back ends so that a Miro server could be run headlessly on a server and connected to with Miro Client to playback the videos there.

    The two could be packaged together for normal users so it would appear to work identically to the way it does at the moment but the two could also be installed separately if required.

  2. wguaraldi Says:
    May 27th, 2008 at 4:23 pm

    Harry: With the work that Ben did for Miro 1.2, it should be possible to write a headless front end.

    The thing is that these things don’t happen magically–they need someone to work on them. So if you’re interested in doing some hacking, I’m game for helping out where I can.

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