SoC2009/AdminUI-Avendano

Title/Summary

Provide an Administrator UI to allow users to create, populate and administrate PhotArk photo gallery/albums (photark-admin-ui)

Student

• Allan Avendaño

Student e-mail

• aavendan@gmail.com

Student Major

• Human-Computer Interaction - Web Development-Distributed Computing

Student Degree

• Senior

Student Graduation

• Spring ‘09

Organization

• Apache PhotArk

Abstract

Apache PhotArk will be a complete open source photo gallery application including a content repository for the images, a display pieces, an access control layer, and upload capabilities. The goal of this project is to provide an Admin User Interface for the PhotArk photo gallery software to allow to administrators to create, populate and administrate their galleries and albums.

Detailed Description

Project Details

In order to make an important contribution to PhotArk community, my proposal is to develop an Administrator UI which will allow to:

* Manage photo basics features, that includes uploading process and also add additional related information like title, description and tags. * Manage gallery and albums tasks like create and add additional information of albums, improve populate album, list photos by different size view, different order ways. * Facilitate photos retrieving process from external sources, by providing a graphic structured process. * Provide an API syndication service that will be used by photo desktop applications.

Project Plan

Coding officially begins at May 23th and ends around August 10th, which allows for 11-12 weeks of work, but I plan to work since accepted students will be announced, that allow to me to apply a development methodology which consists of four phases: concept exploration, demonstration and validation, detail design and operation.

Concept exploration

• Definition of documentation and literature to read	April 21st – April 27th
  Reading of documentation and literature	April 28th – May 4th
  Search of graphical user tools (JavaScript libraries)	May 5th – May 12th
  Elaboration of prototypes of Admin UI	May 12th – May 19th
  Define tasks process	May 20th – May 26th

Demostration and Validation

• Evaluation of prototypes of Admin UI	May 27th – June 2nd
  and tasks process

  Milestone: Elaboration of final Admin	June 3rd – June 9th
  Prototype and tasks process

Detail design and Construction

• Elaboration of photo basics features	June 10th – June 17th
  Milestone: Implementation of photo	June 18th – June 24th
  basics features
  Elaboration of gallery and albums tasks	June 25th – July 1st
  Milestone: Implementation of gallery	July 1st – July 5th
  and album tasks
  Deliverable: Final release of basics admin	July 6th – July 13th
  tasks
  Preliminary design of external photo source	July 14th – July 20th
  Manager and API syndication service
  Milestone: Implementation of external photo	July 21st – July 27th
  source manager and API syndication service

Operation

• Elaboration of complete testing plan	July 28th – August 3rd
  Execution of testing plan	August 3rd – August 10th
  Improvements in documentation	August 6th – August 12th
  Deliverable: Final release of Admin UI	August 14th – August 20th

Additional Information

Biography

I am finishing computing engineering carrier at ESPOL, Ecuador. I am comfortable coding in Java, PHP, C/C++ and also with functional programming languages like MosML and another languages, that allows me to enroll in TAWS, which is an growing investigation group at university, which its principal objective is to spread web technologies and data visualization.

This carry to work within Apache Hadoop framework at VLIR Project: “Analysis of ESPOL website, using Hadoop as massive data processing platform in order to enhance its university world ranking”, it allows me to participate in an open source community contributing to mailing list.

During the last year, some friends and I developed Schedule Viewer (http://www.espol.edu.ec/scheduler/), which is web application which allows students to view their classes and exams schedule, and also download it in portable format file (PDF). In this project, I was responsible of web design and developing JavaScript Grid from scratch. This experience allows me to interact with needs of hundreds of application´ users.

Motivation

First of all, I feel enthusiastic into participate in growing communities like Apache PhotArk, this would give me the opportunity to contribute with ideas and also coding. More of time is necessary to manage photo galleries while developing J2EE applications that commonly are uploaded in external sites like Flickr or Facebook through an API, sometimes it means latency transmission. For that, is strongly recommendable to manage photos at local server within an open source application like PhotArk that imply efficiency. Is easy to find out in the web different photo gallery applications, but it is difficult to contribute with ideas or source code. For that, I feel proud to contribute to PhotArk community by providing an Admin UI that improve PhotArk brand and increase user community.