Profiles, VoIP, and location awareness - SoC idea proposal

[Tyler Williams]

Hi,

I'm a student interested in working for the OpenMoko Summer of Code 
project. Basically, the project I want to work on is made up of three 
main parts, mostly from the wishlist, and I wanted to just put it out 
there and see  if I could find a mentor for it.

So the first part of what I want to do is work on implementing a profile 
manager, that would let you define certain global settings and associate 
them with a profile. So basically you would be able to say put the phone 
in silent mode and know that all incoming notifications will be silenced 
and instead the phone will vibrate, etc... Basically all modern phones 
have this in some form or another. This would involve both creating the 
location manager app, as well as making different applications aware of it.

Next, I would like to get a VoIP client up and running on the phone. 
Something simple, preferably like a daemon or commandline app that will 
run in the background. I've looked at libjingle, googles solution, as 
well as openZoep, or something else.

Thirdly, letting the profile manager be location aware, either through 
the GPS, or scanning for known available networks (bluetooth, or in the 
future, wifi) would be done.

Finally, everything  could be tied together. This would allow the phone 
to provide VoIP service when it's in range of a known (or in the future, 
any open) wireless network, and then when it's out of range, it could 
just default to using the regular phone. The transition should be 
relatively seamless, and transparent to the user, so they wouldn't have 
to worry about manually opening up and using a VoIP program etc, they 
could just dial.

Anyway, I plan on submitting an application, I just wanted to see if 
there was any interest among people who will be mentoring in something 
like this. If I'm way off base here, or this stuff all already exists 
and I just missed it, please let me know...

Thanks
    --Tyler