Re: [OpenCoin-devel] Fwd: [GSoC-2015] OpenCoin Digital Cash App

[Stefan X. <ste...@gm...>]

Hi Milan!

Am 12.03.2015 um 20:42 schrieb Milan Karunarathne:
> Hi Devs:
> 
>   I'm Milan Karunarathne and a student at Information Technology ,
> University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I'm interesting in contributing to
> FOSSASIA during GSoC 2015 program and like to implement the idea of
> "OpenCoin Digital Cash App" [0].

This sounds great.

>   I have a quick look through the OpenCoin protocol [1] and it's a quite
> interesting concept to me. This project got my attention, mainly because
> of I have experience with JavaScript programming, NodeJS and developing
> mobile apps with PhoneGap. Because there is an JavaScript implementation
> of OpenCoin protocol, I can continue working on building the app. Also I
> test the prototype [2] which is using NodeJS (see the attachment).

A while ago we did some tests and found that native JS may be
problematic because it is very slow for some of our crypto operations.
We concluded that a native "module" would be a good choice when using
Phonegap. This module would be native platform code (e.g. Java for
Android) and perform the crypto calculation. Do you have experience in
using such?

>   I looking forward to make a proposal for this project idea. I think, I
> have to include some mockups of "mature wallet". Does it need to have a

Yes, mockups allow to think-through the various use cases and to
understand the required coding. Since the devil is often in the detail,
I would prefer complete mockup-sets which cover all use cases in scope.

> description about "Getting Started" facts in the proposal? Can you give
> some details about that?

I don't understand that question, please elaborate.

>   Can you exaplain in brief, what did you mean by "Agree the feature
> set" ? (Is it about p2p transactions, encrypted wallet, QR codes?)

Exactly. :-)

Regards,
Stefan


> Thank you in advance!.
> 
> [0]. http://labs.fossasia.org/projects/opencoin-digital-cash-app/
> [1]. http://opencoin.org/
> [2]. https://github.com/OpenCoin/opencoin-js
> 
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