[TOS] Apache OpenOffice proposals for GSoC 2012

[eric b]

Dear Steven,

There is absolutely no problem to forward my initial message to your  
students. Thank you very much in advance !

It could be kind of you, to explain them OpenOffice.org name is now  
"Apache OpenOffice" (since Oracle donated the trademark to the Apache  
Software Foundation).

And if this can help you, there is some additional information below,  
to explain our methodology. These links are only a little trace of my  
last participation as mentor for Go-OO (OpenOffice.org was refused),  
and it was about fixing a 9 years old bug: the famous "issue 972"  .  
I could provide more information, but I don't want to flood this list.

Feel free to ask me other pointers if you need more ...  :-)


Regards,
Eric Bachard


Additional links :
The subject entry page : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/ 
ImproveMathEquationEditor
Michal's diary : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/User:MSpisiak
OpenOffice.org Equations editor sources description : http:// 
wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/ImproveMathEquationEditor/SourcesDescription
The dev point of view : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/ 
ImproveMathEquationEditor/Baseline_AlignmentEquations


Le 20 mars 12 à 20:32, Steven Huss-Lederman a écrit :

> Dear Eric,
>
> My capstone class (3rd & 4th year students) has spent a good part  
> of the year working on LibreOffice.  They are just now getting in  
> their first patch for issues with the speadsheet and moving on to  
> other issues.  Would it make sense to send the entire class (12  
> students) the message below to see if people are interested?  (I  
> won't go into the LibreOffice/OpenOffice division but hope that  
> isn't a serious issue for what you want).
>
> All the best,
> Steve
>
> On Mar 20, 2012, at 3:33 AM, eric b wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> GSoC is a great opportunity for students, and FOSS. One more time,  
>> Apache Software Foundation is accepted as application. This allows  
>> Apache OpenOffice (new OpenOffice.org name, since Oracle  
>> transfered the trademark to the Apache Softare Foundation)  
>> participation, and we can propose subjects.
>>
>> Until something is accepted (starting me accepted as mentor on the  
>> Apache side ;-) ), and to inform everybody, I did some proposals.  
>> As GSoc mentor since 2006, I know well the thing and can mentor  
>> one or two (maxi) students, whatever the choosen subject, but any  
>> help, or even someone taking over one subject is possible and  
>> welcome.
>>
>> Here are the subjects I proposed for GSoC2012 :
>>
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-69 : Implement online  
>> SVG Gallery in Apache OpenOffice
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-70 : Open and manage  
>> Maxima sessions in Writer documents
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-71 : Implement the  
>> Image rotation in Apache OpenOffice Writer, using Draw/Impress  
>> objects
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-72 : Implement  
>> Impress  OpenGL 3D transitions on Mac OS X and improve them  
>> (implement reverse transition, according to backward / forward sense)
>>
>> More information on Apache and GSoC: http://www.google-melange.com/ 
>> gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/apache
>> The general GSoC Homepage: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/ 
>> homepage/google/gsoc2012
>>
>> => students interested to apply can ask by email (ooo-dev mailing  
>> list prefered**), or discuss with us directly on IRC***
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Eric
>>
>>
>> ** OpenOffice development mailing list : see http:// 
>> incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html
>> *** server : irc.freenode.net, channels : #ooo4kids or  
>> #dev.openoffice.org or even #educooo in french
>>
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