[ubuntu-in] Need a list projects and tasks ? (required by a Student(s)

[Onkar Shinde]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks a lot Ram,
>>
>> Need more project ideas to do.
>>
>>> 1. An RSS feed reader that downloads the articles from the original website
>>> for offline viewing. Needless to say the software should be based on and
>>> compatible with Open Source (Linux etc) and deriviatives of this could be
>>> plugins for the already existence feed readers (akregator etc)
>>>
>>
>> I think all RSS readers have the local version on the content
>> after they downloaded.
>>
> In fact none of the RSS readers that are available on Linux have any
> option to download the *entire article*  for offline reading or
> archiving.
>
> Some links are
> http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1408380
>
> and even on this forum have posted many attempts to solve it

I believe liferea caches the content for offline viewing. But I may be
wrong as I never used it in offline mode.

By the way, here is my answer to original request. I along with few
other developers maintain 8085 simulator software. We are always
looking for contributors. Please head to http://www.gnusim8085.org
Apart from that students can always participate in GSoC.


Onkar