Debian-related talks database
Mentor: FrancescaCiceri
Summary: The main idea behind this project is to create a searchable database of all Debian related talks, which could be used into the Debian site to easily find talks for title, topic, year, event, or author. The database needs to be wml and gettext compliant.
Required skills:
- a general database knowledge and handling
- some Perl, wml and gettext knowledges, to understand how www.debian.org works
... depends on which language do you want to use to develop the whole project
Description: As said, the idea is to create a searchable database of all Debian related talks which could be queried for title, topic (tagging talks with two or three keyword), year, event and author. The backend needs to be wml and gettext compliant. About the frontend it would be great have something goodlooking ;). The data will be at first time added manually from the already present plain list of talks, then automagically added by special sources (developers blogs - we could set a special syndication feed for talks; debconf site; wiki.d.o page about presentations and so on).
Some interesting resources and ideas: