I have an idea but I don't know if I can realize it...

Asked by Haichao

I am a student in an university and I'm a member of our astronomy club. I've been using the Stellarium for a really long time and I'm really a big fan of it. You see I'm a student majored in computer science and I know that the Stellarium is a opensource software and I really wanna add some function on it by myself. And now I come up with this idea:
I can write a message on a planet and other people who use Stellarium can see my message on that star. For example, if I write "I Love You, Kelly" on the moon and if my girlfriend see that on hers Stellarium she will definitely marry me at once.
After this, I have this idea too:
When I want to observe a planet, I can zoom in and see the information about this planet which will be right next to it. And this information can be updated by all the Stellarium users. By this method I believe the Stellarium can be a astronomy teach tool, and more people will be addicted by the starry sky.
I'm not an experienced software engineering so I can't estimate how hard it will be if want to realize these ideas.
I know there maybe some modified on the bottom layer of the software project and I know which will be really hard. Maybe I also need to make the Stellarium join the internet.
So I wonder if the developers of the Stellarium can see my question here I will be appreciate if you give me some suggestions

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Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) said :
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Of course it can be implemented, but it will be very problematic to realize within Stellarium because you should make a full client-server implementation with users authentication (and with authorization maybe). Stellarium is not instant messenger or social network client and your idea is very weird in application to desktop planetarium.

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