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Google Summer of Code 2008 is now being planned. Like every year Google sponsor student to work on Free Software. AbiWord plan to participate in the program.

Here you should find all the information.

Project Ideas

This is a list of project ideas with the name of a potential mentor. Use this as an base for your proposal, but if you have an idea that is not in this list, feel free to propose it.

* Speed up Table Performance

AbiWord's current Table layout algorithm was borrowed from Gtk. While this has proved to be very robust and comfortuably handles merged cells and nested tables, it gets slow for very large tables (noticeable with over 100 rows). This project would be to improve AbiWord's table performance so that it at least matches that of Firefox.

* Improve ODF support

AbiWord now has very good compliance with the ODF format but it can be improved. This project would be to improve this so that a wide range of documents can be exported from AbiWord, imported to Open Office then exported back into AbiWord from Open Office with no data loss.

* Improve Latex Export

AbiWord has an export to Latex plugin that performs basic export but does not current support many features of AbiWord, including tables, lists, footnotes, endnotes or maths. The project would be to steadily improve Latex export.

* Come up with your own!

If you have a good idea for how AbiWord can be improved and can present a credible plan for how you would do the improvement, feel free to write up your own project. We'll be favourably disposed to someone with good ideas that be implemented over the summer period.

Application process

TBD