Getting Boxed-In

We're currently working on making the login box for Kangaroo Mail. After this step is done, anybody with a gmail account will be able to display certain emails on the mail.kangaroomail.org page by tagging them with "KANGAROOMAIL." 

This is just the first step in making a functional parent/child email program, but it's an encouraging one!

Now We're Hopping!

Well, that didn't take long!  After spending a good portion of yesterday's meeting getting Subclipse integrated, we finally pulled the code down from the repository and were on our way toward making changes.  We were able to get the code to pull all of our email with the label KANGAROOMAIL.  Now, we just have a few more items to implement (based on the GUI drawings from one of our GOSG girls) and we'll be there. 

This has been a relatively simple project in terms of implementation so far, but PHP does not seem to hold the interest of the young ones.  Based on the reactions we're getting this go 'round, we may want to alternate between projects that require "code" and projects that can be done in a more graphical way, like Scratch or Flash.

We Have A Foundation for Kangaroo Mail!

Interested in following along with our Girls' Open-Source Coding Group?  Well, we have a project and now our project has a home.  If you are a female who would like to participate, you can grab the first fledgling piece of code from our repository at http://code.google.com/p/kangaroo-mail/source/browse.

Want to see what we have so far?  Head over to mail.kangaroomail.org to take a look at our base, created with help from a tutorial by the David Walsh Blog.

Girls Go Open-Source!

w00t!  The first Girls' Open-Source Coding Group (GOSCG) was a huge success!  We've got a nice guideline laid for our little program and we're excited to continue.

Here are some of the details:

We decided to create an email program (quickly titled Kangaroo Mail) and use Subversion via Google Code to host our repository (http://code.google.com/p/kangaroo-mail). We've decided on the language of PHP to access the API to attach our program to a Gmail IMAP base.

We plan to have the child's desktop display only the emails marked with a special tag from the guardian's account. When the child "deletes" the email, they are actually only removing the tag from the message. Children will not be allowed to type specific "to" recipients, instead, they must select from a pre-determined list, created by the Guardian. Recipients will receive the email from the guardian's email address, with the subject "Email From 'Child' via Kangaroo Mail on MM-DD-YY".

Contributors can keep-up with the project by following the blog (http://girlsopensource.blogspot.com) or by subscribing to the GOSCG email list (http://groups.google.com/group/thinkersmith-goscg).