Hello, I am Kalpana Roy, final year engineering student from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India. Continuing with the trend of explaining the idea of the project on the mailing list, I am describing my project in this mail. The idea was described on the Gnome list of GS0C ideas site (<a href="http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2009/Ideas">http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2009/Ideas</a>) as: Gnome-panel: Location awareness for the clock applet Benefits: Lets users get the local time and the right timezone, automatically. Maybe also allow selection of locations from an interactive map. Requirements: Some experience with C and maybe dbus would be helpful. Resources: <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue">http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue</a> <a href="http://blog.pierlux.com/projects/libchamplain/en/">http://blog.pierlux.com/projects/libchamplain/en/</a> <a href="http://nzjrs.github.com/osm-gps-map/">http://nzjrs.github.com/osm-gps-map/</a> Jussi Kukkonen <a href="mailto:jku@o-hand.com">jku@o-hand.com</a> has a basic implementation of this already, GSoC could be to clean it up and integrate. I discussed about the afore-mentioned idea on the #geoclue channel on freenode. Henri Bergius (<a href="http://bergie.iki.fi/blog">http://bergie.iki.fi/blog</a>) helped me improve the idea to include the following points: <ul><li>Changing the <a href="http://people.redhat.com/mclasen/intlclock/intlclock-2007-09-29.png">clock time zone</a> based on location (<a href="http://vilunki.wordpress.com/">Jussi</a> already has a patch for this that needs to be cleaned up and submitted)</li> <li>Changing weather applet to show weather for current location</li><li>Telling <a href="http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/">Tracker</a> about the location where documents were edited so you can ask "give me the documents I edited in Stockholm"</li> <li>Making <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/gwibber-the-everything-client/">Gwibber</a> send <a href="http://live.gnome.org/Gwibber/Roadmap#head-fa46c3b444c9f355f2fba1684cc7d2805e42eff9">the current location</a> to microblogging services that <a href="http://brightkite.com/">support it</a></li> <li>Showing where your <a href="http://www.novell.com/documentation/evolution24/index.html?page=/documentation/evolution24/evolution24/data/usage-contact.html">Evolution contacts</a> are (and what their local time is), based on <a href="http://blog.pierlux.com/2009/01/22/empathy-where-are-you/en/">Empathy's XMPP location support</a></li> <li>Setting instant messaging availability status based on location ("set my work account as offline when I'm home")</li><li>Clock can not only automatically update the time & weather settings but also display the appointments specific to a location.</li></ul>More about the project idea can be found at <a href="http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/making_the_gnome_desktop_location-aware/">http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/making_the_gnome_desktop_location-aware/</a> , <a href="http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/making_the_gnome_desktop_location-aware/">http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/making_the_gnome_desktop_location-aware/</a> & <a href="http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dd4m6zsj_5z2jbjqc9&skipauth=true&ncl=true">http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dd4m6zsj_5z2jbjqc9&skipauth=true&ncl=true</a> (which contains snapshot of the demo code built by Jussi). I have not yet decided as to which of the features will/can be implemented within the time-period of GSoC but I feel that inclusion of GeoClue into Gnome desktop will make it more smart and give the users an ease of use, automating simple day-to-day tasks without worrying about them. I would like to seek advice from all those who are interested, regarding how to implement the project, any modifications or any general comment. Thanking you, ~kr0y. -- ~ Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, there you long to return --Da Vinci