Re: Regarding GSOC 2011 Application

Hi,

I am planning to apply to GSOC this year. I am a fourth year Computer
Science Engineering student at IIIT Hyderabad. Besides the course
work, I've been doing research in Computer Vision for about two years
now. I have a fair amount of programming experience in both C and C++,
besides other languages, and I've also designed the UIs of several
tools I wrote for use in my research. I've taught C programming as a
Teaching Assistant as well in my college. I was drawn to your
institution mainly because of Abiword's multi platform support. As a
user, I dislike rebooting and switching between my Windows and Ubuntu
OSs. I work on my Ubuntu, but when I want to use MSOffice or Photoshop
I have to boot into my Windows, which is unnerving. I have used Open
Office but I still can't let go of the look and feel of MSOffice.

I went through the proposed project ideas and liked some of them. I
was particularly interested in the Table improvements (I have suffered
several times while preparing the grade sheets of students in courses
I have TAed), Port AbiWord to gtk-3.0 (gnome 3 is here to stay, so we
might as well prepare ourselves for it) and improving ODF support
(I've had bad experiences with opening esoteric file formats on Word
Processors myself). Kindly suggest as to how I should proceed with
these. I understand that I'd have to select exactly one of these ideas
eventually for my proposal so I'd like to hear from you and identify
the idea that'd perhaps be most useful when implemented.

Thanks,
Siddhartha Chandra
BTech 4th year, Computer Science Dual,
IIIT Hyderabad, India.
Received on Fri Mar 25 09:12:03 2011