Re: Summer of Code Hello

On Sun, 28 May 2006, J.M. Maurer wrote:

> Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 23:24:24 +0200
> From: J.M. Maurer <uwog@uwog.net>
> To: Jauco Noordzij <jauco.noordzij@gmail.com>
> Cc: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: Summer of Code Hello
>
>
> On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 07:40 +0200, Jauco Noordzij wrote:

> > I wrote this mail a few days ago but, due to me arguing with major
> > domo about what constitutes a proper e-mail message, It hasn't arrived
> > until now.

I regularly wish someone would write a virus which could disable HTML
email in any machine it infects.

> Sorry, harsh spam measures :)

I've gotten Gigabytes of spam and viruses, no apologies for the harsh
filters I thank the webmaster (Hub?) for setting them up.

> > Today I have received the official confirmation that I am accepted for
> > this years summer of code. I had already received word from dom (who
> > will be my mentor) and he explained that there is a lot of
> > communication through the list and irc.
>
> irc is definitly the place to be!
>
> > The next couple of months I will be working on a pdf import plugin
> > that will import both the text, the formatting and the structure, like
> > headings and columns, into abiword.

> > I am really, really excited about this, as it's a project that has been
> > slumbering in my head for quite some time now (think years).
>
> We were thinking the same, but no-one felt like trying to implement
> it :D

Didn't Dom start something like this already? (Basic text import from PDF
as I recall.) Since he was mentoring I assumed this project was to expand
on his existing work.

-- 
Alan