[ecf-dev] Some of my ideas for contribution to ECF

["James Sugrue" <james@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

It's been a while since I've been properly involved in 
ECF, but I've a few ideas that I'd like to run by the 
list, to see if there's any interest/worth there.

A long time ago, Marcelo and I did some work on Tweethub. 
Due to various reasons, we let is slide. There's a few 
things I'd like to do to get that back up and running. It 
doesn't connect to Twitter (there's a bug logged for this 
already).
Also, it would be interesting to try and remove the need 
for the Twitter4J library.
I think the Tweethub project could be the basis of an 
interesting tutorial about how providers work, and how to 
use them.

Next, I'd like to do some kind of overview video for ECF. 
A lot of projects, like m2eclipse and Xtext have videos on 
front page - it should be easy for us to get an overview 
of ECF done... What do you think?

I'd also like to see about using ECF to write a plugin to 
integrate into Eclipse that could hook into some streaming 
audio service.

I'd be interested to hear any thoughts. Perhaps some of 
these ideas have already been explored?

In the meantime, I've got to get myself setup with Git 
etc. Should be fun, I've only really used CVS so far. At 
least I have Alex's series to help me out!

Regards

James