Social Network Extension

Our team has decided to go with creating a social network extension for the Banshee music player. This extension would give users the ability to right click on a song that they are currently listening to and click on an option to share it on their social network of choice. Of course they would not share the audio with their friends, they would just share a message that would give some song info and a personalized message of what they are currently listening to. So for example, in Facebook the message would be a status post on the users profile. This extension idea was thought up by Bertrand Lorentz, a Banshee maintainer, but he does not have the time to create it, so he asked for someone else to take on the project. We told Bertrand that we would take on the project and he seemed very excited about us taking on the project. He also offered to do the initial set up of the extension in Banshee, so we told him that would be great if he could give us that boost.

Right now, we are all getting the libgwibber package configured on our computers and into our MonoDevelop environments, since this package is the key to communicating from Banshee to the social network of choice. Once we have that figured out then that'll be a big stepping stone in the project. However, depending on what setup Bertrand does, he may include the libgwibber package reference in the initial setup of the extension, so we may not have to worry about that aspect at all. I have not completely setup libgwibber in MonoDevelop yet, but I have come to the conclusion that my problems have to with my version of Ubuntu. I believe I have to update to version 10.10 in order to use a gwibber-gtk-sharp reference in MonoDevelop to test the libgwibber library. Once I have that updated and the gwibber-gtk-sharp package installed and referenced then I should be able to experiment with the libgwibber API. For those that do not know what libgwibber is, it is a package of the Gwibber software which is a micro blogging client for popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, etc.

I am very excited about this project and I cannot wait to see what this extension will do for the Banshee community.