GSoC Proposal: Live news feed from financial newspapers

[Christian Stimming]

Dear Ajay,

thank you for your interest in working with gnucash in the GSoC 2011 program. 
It is good to hear you've been able to build it from source, and that you've 
been using the program for some time already.

As for your live news feed idea: This sounds like a very good idea and I 
believe this is a good scope to be successfully finished within the GSoC 
timeframe.

As for the technology you can be using: You have plenty of choices available 
to implement your ideas. You can use HTML and javascript inside a webkit 
window, or you can use Scheme scripting program code, or you can use C code to 
implement gtk widgets, or your can use C++ code to implement gtkmm widgets. 
Those options are all already available. Additionally, we will have python 
scripting inside gnucash available as well. Again, the choice for your feature 
implementation is up to you - you can try one technology a little bit, then 
try another one, then decide on the best of those and do the actual main work.

Best Regards,

Christian


Am Sonntag, 27. März 2011 schrieb Ajay Thomas:
> Hi
> 
> I am a student aspiring to contribute to gnucash during GSoC. I have built
> gnucash from source, got a good idea of how the application works and am
> working on a few bugs now.
> 
> I feel there is one main feature that can be included. There is currently
> no support for live news feed from financial newspapers. I am planning on
> using the RSS feed to develop this plugin for gnucash. Thus, the user need
> not browse the net to search for news on stocks and finding out how his
> portfolio is performing etc. The news can be personalized according to his
> needs which can be set by the user itself.
> 
> Please give me your feedback on the proposal, I can work on the timeline
> and implementation accordingly.