The Project of the Week

As an Open Source project, we are constantly asked two questions by AbiWord fans:

• Users: When will my favorite feature get implemented?
• Hackers: How can I help and where should I start?

In an attempt to answer both questions at once, we've introduced the concept of a Project of the Week, or POW (see the original message here). This is pronounced "pow", like in the comic books.

Each week, we pick a different feature that needs time and energy devoted to it that the current AbiWord developers cannot give. To help you get started, we outline the steps required to propel the particular project into motion.

There are a variety of projects, not all of which are strictly programming oriented. In particular, we now also have User Project of the Week, or uPOW. These are especially targeted at users who would like to help improve AbiWord, but who do not have programming skills.

To claim a POW or uPOW, please post a ZAP message to either the developer or user mailing list and this page will be updated appropriately. Also please post a message on the the developer list if some of the below is inaccurate - and include all necessary detail (when possible) to correct it.

Legend

	This POW/uPOW is done (<sfx>SHAZAM</sfx>)
	This POW/uPOW is partially done, but needs additional work
	This POW/uPOW has been claimed (<sfx>ZAP</sfx>)
	This POW/uPOW is unclaimed

POW/uPOW State

Week	Type	Description	Hero(s)	State
2002
27	POW	find a Windows maintainer	Jordi Mas
27	POW	fix windows printing bugs
04	POW	Integrate the new help system	Calvin Arndt, David Chart, and Dom Lachowicz
2001
22	POW	Sorting contents of combo boxes and splash screen preference option	Martin Sevior and Dom Lachowicz
18	POW	ImageMagick multipurpose graphic importer	Dom Lachowicz
17	uPOW	Where to send AbiWord announcements.[State]	Calvin Arndt
17	POW	Get Ispell support working	Thomas Fletcher and Dom Lachowicz
16	POW	Applix Support	Hubert Figuiere and Dom Lachowicz
9	uPOW	Determining locale status [State]	Karl Ove Hufthammer
9	POW	Speed up bulk spell checking	Dom Lachowicz, Ben Mesmen, David Mendelen, and Martin Sevior
7	uPOW	Host for AbiWord BugDay
6	uPOW	Update Feature and UI matrices [State]	Karl Ove Hufthammer
5	uPOW	Keeping the AbiWord web pages up to date	Jared Davis
4	POW	Implement TAB leaders	(Patrick Lam?)
3	POW	Template Like System	Dom Lachowicz
2	POW	Cursor Position should not move in inactive documents	John Clark
2000
25	POW	Implement help Menu	David Schmitter
19	POW	Fix use of IntelliMouse	Aaron Lehman, Joaquín Cuenca Abela, and Matthew Allen
18	POW	Fix print margins on Windows	Mike Nordell
13	POW	Draw focus indicators correctly	hj
11	POW	Beginning the Binary Word Exporter	Dom Lachowicz and the wv crew
10	POW	Test LaTeX export	Pierre Abbat
9	POW	Change Page Margins	Bruce Pearson
8	POW	Fix BeOS PPC build	Thomas Fletcher
7	POW	Printing accented characters on Unix	Aaron Lehman and Matthew Allen
6	POW	Start spreading the news [Read it]	Sam TH
1999
50	POW	Show Paragraphs	Alexey Sinutin and Jesper Skov
47	POW	Make translated dialogs fit [State]	Owen Stenseth
45	POW	Tabs	Stephen Hack
44	POW	RTF improvements	Malcolm Peacock
43	POW	ispell support for non-English languages	Henrik Berg
42	uPOW	Usability Test #1	Everyone
41	POW	Word Count dialog	Sam TH
40	POW	Improve our release practices [Read it]	Sam TH
39	POW	Goto dialog	Joaquín Cuenca Abela and Sam TH
38	POW	Toggle Rulers	Stephen Hack
37	uPOW	CS folks wanted...	Everyone	Always open