Introducing Abhishek

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Warm greetings to all !

I am Abhishek Ranjan on GitHub as iamabhi222, A sophomore from BIT Sindri (Dhanbad, India). I have been using Joplin from quite a long and always admire Joplin for its clean UI, I am trying to get my hands on some issues and fortunately I got my first PR merged with Joplin yesterday, though that was only a documentation fix but at least I got a start :sweat_smile:

As a part of GSOC, I would love to work on Real-time collaboration on a note and so trying to get myself familiarize with the codebase and also working on CRDT and WebRTC, also looking forward to @PackElend and @roman_r_m for some quick start guide.

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Hi Abhishek

Have you read Google Summer of Code 2021 | Joplin ? Once you've done that, set up your dev environment, pick an issue and try fixing it.

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in addition, you can read into
what do you think about adding
"create proof on concept how multi-user, server-based sharing" Joplin could work.

in Joplin Server pre-release is now available - Development - Joplin Forum (joplinapp.org) and we discuessed about in Any suggestions on what web technology could be used to add support for sharing notes? - Development - Joplin Forum (joplinapp.org).

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The sharing feature for Joplin Server is already partially implemented actually - sharing by link is already done (will release in 1.8) and sharing a notebook I have some ideas on how to do it, so we don't need that kind of work at this stage.

but going a step beyond that:
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..it could almost be a separate app wouldn't it? The app would just displays a text editor with the content shared using a web socket, that's all independent of Joplin, then at regular interval it would update the note via the Joplin Server API.

but maybe:
some of the apps would required to be implemented in the server.
In case of Convergence: The Real-Time Collaboration Engine it looks like it would be quite trivial as it comes with it own convergencelabs/convergence-server: The Convergence Server (github.com). It only needs to be able to block syncs against the server as long as there is collaboration ongoing.
In addition, real-time collaboration is properly not that much required if you can sync quickly against the same target.

Working in bug-fix is mandatory to tell us if you are really able to code or do just copy&paste, in addition in gives an idea how well you understand Joplin's codebase.

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