Re: Congratulations to our GSoC students!

Greetings All,

Thank you for the welcome! I'm Frem on IRC. I've idled a bit but have
been too busy with finals to interact on a regular basis. But they're
over now. :-D Looking forward to coding and hanging out with ya'll
over the summer.

 --James Denton

On 5/2/08, Firat Kiyak <firatkiyak@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 06:12:41 2008