open source idea.md

• p2p shared wikipedia native app one click.
  • extend concept of pkm - https://github.com/z3t0/pkm
  • cosmocc/redbean runtime
  • c++ app
  • couchdb for sync
  • future extensions
    • collaborative editing (CRDT)
    • mobile app
    • web app
  • criteria analysis
    • Doable in C++
      • yes, most of the code is app level code so can be in any lang
    • Get experience with design patterns and problems
      • what patterns
      • what problems
        • syncing
        • awareness of issues in distributed programming
          • understand CAP theorem
          • eventual consistency
          • replication protocol, conflicts, merging.
        • understanding different platforms have different native apis
          • many design patterns apply here.
          • secure design -> restrict read/write based on author
          • modelling -> data model needed
          • architecture -> local app, persistence layer, syncing mechanism
            • learn about some tcp/ip.
            • concurrency -> needed if we are doing network programming without pausing render thread.
    • Large enough to fill at least a few weeks at 3 hours mob programming a week
      • yes. there is a roadmap where this can be a small or larger project. to begin with it could be as simple as syncing a single text file across all users and doing a read/write lock using distributed timestamps/.
    • Sure to be done by the end of the semester
      • we can constrain the requirements to meet the timeline.