Re: Congratulations to our GSoC students!

Hi Dominic,

Thank you a lot for the nice welcome message. For those of you whom I
haven't had a chance to say hi in the irc channel, I am using frt as my
nick. My classes are just finished yesterday, but I still have my finals
coming up. That's probably why you haven't seen me in the room :) Happy
coding!

Firat

Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
> I know that this is long overdue, but I'd like to congratulate and
> welcome our *6* Google Summer of Code students. I'd also like to thank
> all of those who submitted applications but were not accepted. We got
> a lot of applications this year (32, to be exact). Paring them down to
> a top 6 was not easy, but these 6 students and their proposals were
> all top-notch.
>
> I've CC'd our new recruits. I'd like to take this opportunity to
> invite them to join the abiword-dev mailing list and stop bye on IRC
> (irc.gnome.org/#abiword). There's really no better way to get to know
> your mentors and the AbiWord community.
>
> Without further ado, I give you this year's GSoC projects:
>
> 1. Getting rid of non-portable library use in AbiWord/Gtk+ by Robert
> Staudinger (mentor: Dominic Lachowicz)
> Extensive fixup of the AbiWord/Gtk+ codebase, so it can easily be
> ported to platforms supported by the Gtk+ stack. The biggest chunk
> will be cairo screen- and print-graphics integration.
>
> Rob is a CS PhD student @ the University of Salzburg, Austria. Rob has
> been a great asset to the AbiWord community for years, and we're
> really glad to be working with him again this summer.
>
> 2. Improve LaTeX Support by Xun Sun (mentor: Marc Maurer)
> This project will enable exporting (both LaTeX-native and MathML)
> equations to LaTeX documents, and polish the function with tables
> (with merged cells). Another aim of this project is to make AbiWord
> output more beautiful and user-friendly LaTeX code, since one may need
> to check and revise the converted files.
>
> I'm a 3rd year PhD student in the Department of Electronic Engineering
> of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Xun really impressed us by
> submitting a nice group of LaTeX patches *before* GSoC even started.
> This was our most popular proposal with 10 (!) applicants. Xun's
> initiative really made him stand out above the crowd.
>
> 3. AbiWord Multiple Page View by James Denton (mentor: Martin Sevior)
> Add a layout which will enable to user to view and edit two or more
> pages of the same document side by side.
>
> James is a Computer Science major finishing up my Sophomore year at
> LeTourneau University in Longview, TX.
>
> 4. Rethinking Styles by Ryan Pavlik (mentor: Hubert Figuiere)
> I propose to redesign styles-related interfaces (primarily the Stylist
> and the Create/Modify Styles dialogs) based on a usability-tested
> design and considering that styles also offer a way for users to
> structure their document.
>
> Ryan is a student enrolled at St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI,
> pursuing a bachelor's (4-year) degree in computer science, math, and
> Spanish. He's currently chilling in Spain doing a "study abroad"
> program. He's a long-standing member of the AbiWord community and
> all-around hoopy frood.
>
> 5. Improve OOXML support (import) by Ashwani Bailore (metors: Sum1 and Dom)
> The objective of this project is to improve the compliance between
> Abisource and Microsoft's OOXML format. A basic import filter has
> already been developed. Many features of OOXML word processing
> documents have not yet been implemented.
>
> Ashwani is 20 year old student from the city of Gwalior, which is
> located in Madhya Pradesh State in India. Presently she's pursuing 3rd
> year of Integrated Post Graduate Program (5 year course) in Indian
> Institute of Information Technology and Management with IT as her
> major.
>
> 6. Proposal for developing OOXML Export plugin for AbiWord by Firat
> Kiyak (mentors: Sum1 and Dom)
> It will be extremely useful for many people who want to work with Word
> 2007 .docx files without buying any product. I propose to implement
> high quality OOXML exporting plugin for AbiWord as a Google Summer of
> Code 2008 project.
>
> Firat is a first-year PhD. student at the University of Illinois at
> Urbana-Champaign focusing in Computer Science department focusing on
> Scientific Computing.
>
> Again, a hearty welcome to all of our new students.
>
> Cheers,
> Dom
>
>
Received on Sat May 3 02:56:38 2008