Re: Google Summer of Code ideas

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>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> Those are good ideas to put up on a developers
>> Wiki/page. Nice little projects to get people started
>> on hacking Abi.
>>

OK I gathered all the ideas and offers to mentor and placed them on the
wiki. I'll now approach Google and see if we can get on the program.

I'll also approach the beagle guys and see what they think about about a
joint AbiWord/Dashbaord/Beagle project.

Wiki link:

http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/SummerOfCode

Cheers

Martin

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> Good idea. I'll put them on the wiki and in my blog.
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>> A few other suggestions:
>>
>> 1) Implement a C API for some of AbiWord's more
>> interesting internals.
>> 1.1) Use SWIG + that C API to generate language
>> bindings (Python, Perl, etc.)
>>
>> 2) Perhaps use 1/1.1 (or a custom plugin) to integrate
>> Abi with DBUS. A first attempt might be to export all
>> of Abi's EV_EditMethods over DBUS via a plugin.
>>
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> Great ideas. I'll add them to the list.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
>> Best,
>> Dom
>>
>> --- msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
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>>>
>>> Hi Folks,
>>> Google are sponsoring Summer of Code
>>> projects again over the
>>> (Northern Hemisphere) summer break. I've heard that
>>> some of our
>>> developers are interested in in participating in
>>> this with
>>> AbiWord the community.
>>>
>>> Here are some ideas:
>>>
>>> 1. Integrate AbiWord with dashboard and beagle.
>>>
>>> Last year I wrote the AbiDash plugins which sends
>>> clues and notifications
>>> to the dashbaord program. Dashboard is a really
>>> interesting project which
>>> runs in the background in a spare piece of screen
>>> real-estate. As
>>> different programs gain focus they send "clue
>>> packets" which describe what
>>> the user is currently doing. Dashboard integrates
>>> with the beagle search
>>> engine and that the clues and performs searchs
>>> through the beagle index.
>>> It attempts to find relevent files and relevent
>>> pieces of text that could
>>> help the user with their current document.
>>>
>>> So for example, if a user is employing AbiWord to
>>> write an essay on
>>> Shakespear's Midsummer Night, the dashboard program
>>> would search through
>>> the users documents looking for both relevent
>>> documents and relevent parts
>>> of the documents to what is being typed and presents
>>> the user with useful
>>> information without the user having to do any
>>> explicit searchs.
>>>
>>> Both dashbaord and beagle are written in mono. This
>>> project may well make
>>> a useful join project between the AbiWord, beagle
>>> and mono communities.
>>>
>>> I personally hink that this is a very exciting
>>> project that will take the
>>> desktop experience to a whole new level of
>>> productivity.
>>>
>>> 2. Help with the AbiCollab project.
>>>
>>> There is tons of work left to do here. If someone is
>>> interested please us
>>> know and we'll find a piece of the project that
>>> would be suitable for a
>>> SoC project.
>>>
>>> 3. Complete the PangoGraphics class.
>>>
>>> Lots of work left to do here. Tomas would have to be
>>> available and willing
>>> to sponsor and supervise a potential SoC project.
>>>
>>> 4. Implement a Cairo graphcis class.
>>>
>>> Cario is a next generation, platform independent,
>>> 2-D dimension graphics
>>> system. Cario offers sub-pixel text positioning and
>>> a variety of other
>>> tasty features. Implementing a cross platform
>>> solution to our graphics
>>> class would also reduce the effort of maintaining
>>> our 3 different targets.
>>>
>>> 5. Come up with a UI suitable for the OLPC project.
>>> The OLPC project is
>>> aimed explicitly at children and the computer screen
>>> are either 640x480 or
>>> 800x600. Our current UI is not optimum for this
>>> evironment. This project
>>> would be to find a UI that works for OLPC.
>>>
>>> 6. Various enhancements to abiWord.
>>>
>>> 6.1 Implement "comments". This would resuse/extend
>>> our current
>>> footnote/endnote code to embed text within a
>>> document. I could
>>> supervise/mentor this.
>>>
>>> 6.2 Implement Repeating Table rows on different
>>> pages. I could
>>> supervise/mentor this.
>>>
>>> 6.3 Implement "previews" of document. The idea is to
>>> display the first 1/2
>>> or 1/3 of the first page of each document once the
>>> user selects a document
>>> in the file browser. I have a number of ideas on
>>> how to do this. I could
>>> supervise/mentor this.
>>>
>>> Of all these I'm most interested in getting "1"
>>> going.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Received on Sat Apr 22 15:48:36 2006