Re: Regarding GSOC 2011 Application

From: Keith BOWES <zooplah_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu Mar 31 2011 - 09:49:51 CEST

Je 2011-Mar-25 je 13:03, Robin Chandra skribis:
>
> 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.
Hm, it seems like you might be overqualified.

> Port AbiWord to gtk-3.0 (gnome 3 is here to stay, so we
> might as well prepare ourselves for it)
I thought GTK+ 3 was just in planning stage. Does GNOME 3 really use it
(I was just assuming that the versions were unrelated).

> improving ODF support
> (I've had bad experiences with opening esoteric file formats on Word
> Processors myself).
AbiWord also supports its own .abw format. ODF is only available
through a plugin (albeit one that's included by default).

-- 
Keith Bowes <http://zooplah.farvista.net/>
Received on Sat Apr 2 02:10:10 2011

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