Re: Google Summer of Code 2009

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 01:14, Martin Sevior <msevior@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I think so too. I think I can mentor this and I'll add it to the
> list. Tomeu would you like to mentor this project? If you would I'd be
> happy to pass any interested students to you and list you as a
> potential abiword mentor.

I'm already planning to mentor one or two students for SugarLabs, but
if enough other people volunteer for that, I might be able to mentor
for abiword instead. I think I will be able to tell in a couple of
weeks.

Regards,

Tomeu

> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu@sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 17:30, Fabian Sturm <f@rtfs.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I won't be a mentor and unfortunately can't be a student but I would
>>> like to make a project proposel.
>>>
>>> "Design of an api for embeding abiword as a widget in third party
>>> applications"
>>>
>>> The action items could be:
>>>
>>> - Search for existing rich text widgets (in Gtk, Qt, MFC...)
>>>
>>> - Compare the existing widgets apis and try to find out what works good
>>> and what not
>>>
>>> - Compare different applications embedding a rich text widget and find
>>> out what was easy for the developer to achive and what was hard (e.g.
>>> look at tomboy, sugar write, gedit...)
>>>
>>> - Make a proposal for an easy to use widget api based on the
>>> libabiwidget api
>>>
>>> - Adapt libabiwidget api to this new/improved design
>>>
>>> - Code small sample programs showing the different functions to use the
>>> widget (load/save documents, change text style from code, embed links
>>> etc.)
>>>
>>>
>>> Do you think something like this would be a good idea?
>>
>> FWIW, I think this is a very good idea.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>>> Thanks a lot, Fabian
>>>
>>>
>>> Am Mittwoch, den 11.02.2009, 12:11 -0500 schrieb Dominic Lachowicz:
>>>> me too.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
Received on Tue Mar 3 10:12:23 2009