[Quantlib-dev] FpML

[David B. <doc...@gm...>]

Hello Everyone!

   My name is David Brown.  I am a graduate student in the United
States taking an Object-Oriented Software Engineering course.  While
browsing through the QuantLib Project's website, I saw that various
things still need work to enhance the power of QuantLib.
   As part of the class that I am taking, we are supposed to find
'customers' to design a project.  After the project is 'planned', it
will be bid upon by our fellow classmates.  At this point the project
will be coded and designed by a total of four or five graduate student
computer scientists.
   My reason for posting this to everyone is that I have a long-term
interest in becoming involved in Financial Software Programming. 
Therefore, it was logical for me to try and help a project like
QuantLib.
   I do not know the status of large portions of the project.  The
archive filled in my knowledge about a few things, but there are still
many things I do not have the slightest idea about.  It would be very
nice if someone on this list group could take myself and my fellow
classmates on as 'service providers'.
   Clearly, I am not selling anything here.  If someone wanted to be
our 'customers', they would simply have to assist us as our mentor. 
We would develop whatever snippets of QuantLib that are feasible in
approximately 12 man-month hours.  (I do not believe in the myth of
the man-month nor the antiquated Waterfall development method, but my
professor wants us to stick to it.)


In any event, thank you for all of your help and time!

David Brown
doc...@gm...


p.s.
I have a natural attraction towards FpML / XML interfacing with QuantLib.