Re: Intention to submit our GSoC application this weekend.

Hi,
I have come up with a small presentation on applying for Google Summer
of Code focusing on AbiWord. You can find it here [1]. Hope that will
be helpful for the starters.

[1] http://www.docstoc.com/docs/71909183/GSoC-2011-AbiWord

Thank you.
Regards,
Pradeeban.

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Martin Sevior <msevior@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Just to update you on where we're at. Xun Sun and Jean Brefort will
> also join our Mentor team.
>
> I've added Morten and Jean's ideas for projects to the wiki.
>
> The current set of ideas is:
>
>  Add Hyphenation support
>  Improve Track Changes UI
>  Get our Mac port up to speed
>  Table improvements
>  Port AbiWord to gtk-3.0
>  Speed up AbiWord for very large documents
>  Reduce Flicker
>  Add a testing framework
>  Improve ODF support
>  Stabilize the trunk for AbiWord-3.0 Windows release
>  Improve import/export of maths
>  Implement support for svg snaphots for embedded objects
>  Implement an ePub filter
>
>
> Mentors: me, uwog, pradeeban, Xun and Jean.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Martin Sevior <msevior@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I'd like to submit our application to GSoC this weekend.
>>
>> So far the mentors we have are me, uwog and pradeeban.
>>
>> I will be the GSoC administrator for 2011.
>>
>> Our GSoC wiki page is here:
>>
>> http://www.abisource.com/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2011
>>
>> Our list of projects are:
>>
>>  Add Hyphenation support
>>  Improve Track Changes UI
>>  Get our Mac port up to speed
>>  Table improvements
>>  Port AbiWord to gtk-3.0
>>  Speed up AbiWord for very large documents
>>  Reduce Flicker
>>  Add a testing framework
>>  Improve ODF support
>>  Stabilize the trunk for AbiWord-3.0 Windows release
>>
>> If you have suggestions for projects please let us know or add them to the wiki!
>>
>> If you would like to be a mentor this year please also let me know.
>> The more mentors we have the more students we take on AbiWord.
>>
>> The rest of the wiki is in good shape. We have answers for all the
>> questions Google asks and I have worked out how to do the paperwork
>> required for non-USA organizations :-)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Martin
>>
>

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Kathiravelu Pradeeban.
Software Engineer.
WSO2 Inc.
Blog: [Llovizna] http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/