Re: GSOC 2013

No one has time for that i think :)

2013/4/10 Efe Gürkan YALAMAN <efeyalaman@gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> I want to participate GSOC 2013. I am trying to contributing LO for a
> while. I was going to try "using svg for icons" for GSOC but the idea is
> deleted from the Ideas page. And that would be a little bit hard for me. So
> I find another and much more suitable idea for me, which is Dialog widget
> conversion.
>
> First of all. Let me introduce myself. :)
>
> *TLDR;*"My skill set:Python, C , C++,Java,C#. I can read others code. I
> have a little knowledge about GUI's.".
> I am a 2. grade computer engineering student at Ege University. I try to
> contribute Free Software projects as possible.I already sent 2 patches to
> LibreOffice(I can use Git and Gerrit. Yaay! :)). I did small
> projects(Homeworks :) ) in C, C++,Java, C# and Python. I feel comfortable
> with Python. Because one of this projects is about graphs and I wrote that
> in Python+GTK. That was a milestone for me. It was my first program with a
> gui and I learned a lot from it. The code may be a little bit messy (and
> includes a lot of Strings and comments in Turkish) but you can see the code
> from here if you want : https://github.com/namcojoulder/DSgraph
> I don't have a problem in reading and understanding others code.I think I
> can learn easily a programming language if it is needed because I am taking
> a course about programming languages(Design and concepts, mostly
> theoretical).
>
> **
> I find interesting two ideas.
> -Dialog Widget Conversion
> -Implement a "about:config" functionality
>
> I don't know what to do about second idea but I tried to draw a very basic
> road map about the first Idea.
>
> I think i can automate some part of this conversion. I don't have too much
> programming experience but I think I have enough knowledge for this idea.
>
> My first idea for implementing this work is :
> - Investigation about .src files and .ui files(and a little debugging).
> Caolan McNamara has a great blog post about this conversation
> already,(Before coding starts)
> - I will have a homework about writing a parser in a few weeks so I will
> have some information about how parsing works. I think this homework and
> reading will make my work easier.(Because I think this idea is mostly on
> parsing .src files and creating .ui files with these data.),
> - When I had enough Information about parsing and widget files I can do
> some work with Python for automating this process.
>
>
> I would like to discuss the possibility of implementing this idea and
> drawing a more certain road map. Please don't hesitate to comment. :)
>
> And lastly this e-mail probably have a lot of grammar mistakes. Sorry
> about that :)
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
> My Nickname on freenode: efegurkan
> --
> Efe Gürkan YALAMAN
> http://about.me/efegurkan



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