[Libwpg-devel] Re: Regarding libwpd-like tool for Google Summer of Code 2006

[Fridrich S. <fri...@bl...>]

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Hi, Ravi,

First let me thank you for your interest.
As you might know already, the final selection of the "Google Summer of
Code" program is up to Google, at the moment I can just confirm whether
I want to take the mentoring role in your project.

And of course I will. :-)

As a prerequisite to any code contributions to our project you have to
sign a joint copyright assignment with Sun. You can read more about
contributions here:

http://contributing.openoffice.org/programming.html

As a preparation, you could read the libwpd API specification at
http://abiword.snt.utwente.nl/~uwog/libwpd/ in order to get some
complement to the information published in OpenOffice.org Wiki
(http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SummerOfCode2006#Writer:_Import_Filter_for_Word_Perfect_Graphics_files).

Since the SF.net anonymous CVS is broken ATM, I will make available ASAP
(before Monday, I hope) cvs snapshot tarballs of libwpd, writerperfect
and libwpg at (http://hei.unige.ch/~strba5/SoC/) in order to allow the
candidates to get familiar with the code. Note that the mentoring will
be done simultaneously at de...@wp... and
lib...@li... mailing lists. So subscribing these
ones would be a good idea :-)

Please note that our proposed list of tasks was done under the
assumption that you are an experienced C++ developer who already has
done his own C++ projects and who knows all the main stream stuff like
templates or exceptions quite well, is able to think in object terms and
understands the idea of separating interface and implementation. As you
might have read on code.google.com you must finish the planned work in
the estimated time (working period starts officially 23 May 2006 and
ends 21 August) 2006 to get the payment from Google, so please consider
this carefully.

Just to let you know that another students showed also interest in this
project. ATM we won't exclude anybody, so let's see how we can proceed.

Best regards,

Fridrich Strba

P.S. Note that the period of applications starts on 1 May 2006 and ends
on 8 May. Your application should be filed directly with Google.

Ravi Sathyam wrote:
> Hi,
> I am currently a Bachelor's student in Electrical and Computer
> Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (I will be
> pursuing my MS in ECE here in Fall 2006 so I WILL be an eligible
> student). I am really interested in this project, and was wondering
> about the possible timeline you were viewing for it. I have good C++
> experience, and will send you my resume if needed. Please feel free to
> contact me either via email or via phone - 1-309-287-6169.
> 
> I really want to be given the opportunity to write code for this
> particular project!
> 
> Thanks,
> Ravi Sathyam
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