A previous coder, Christian, has offered to mentor anyone willing
to take over because he just doesn't have enough time to get stuck into coding.
The problem is about linking or embedding sound files and it has driven a couple
of people back to MS Office's PowerPoint. There might be something a bit more
serious in there too but Christian could give details.
I still think Base is more important because people are more likely to deal with
Impress anyway. Base desperately needs people, almost as desperately as the
Documentation Team. I think Svg is already being worked on so it might be all
completed before GsoC starts.
Many regards and congrats from
Tom :)
----- Original Message ----
From: Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
Cc: vuhung@ki-ei.com
Sent: Sat, 11 June, 2011 12:19:32
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Tasks for the summer
Hi :)
I don't really know what skill level they currently have or what they need to
aim for (i haven't read your links yet). Also i think the question might be
better asked in the devs mailing list rather than marketing list. If you
wanted
ideas for a marketing project this would be the perfect place.
My immediate thoughts are;
1. Base would be awesome. Any work on it would be fantastic. A good place
to
earn a good reputation if the skills are up to it! I don't think anyone is
really working on it now but there are a few people that could help with some
guidance, eg Alex Thurgood if he has time and i guess there would still be
mentors on the coding side. It is a huge challenge although there are
probably
a ton of easy hacks listed.
2. SVG import and embedding for all platforms. Apparently it is done for
Windows versions but not Mac, nor other Bsd nor even Linux! Usually linux
stuff
gets done first apparently as it's easier to port to the other platforms
(except
possibly it's not so easy to port to Windows as it is to port to Mac).
3. Perhaps a collection of Easy Hacks. Just select a bunch in a single app
(such as Base).
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&query_format=advanced&status_whiteboard=EasyHack&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED
D
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks
5. Perhaps working on a needed Extension might be good? I don't know of one
but there are lots for OpenOffice that haven't been migrated to official TDF
servers. Apparently a lot have been pushed into main-line LibreOffice but
there
might be something there.
6. The most under-staffed group in TDF at the moment is the Documentation
Team. They have just had 3 new people join last week and those 3 have already
done a ton of excellent work but more people are needed. It is a very
friendly
& helpful team so working there is quite rewarding. I guess this doesn't
count
as coding because they don't usually even need to use mark-up language but it
is
the most critically short-staffed area in TDF right now and there is a ton of
work to do urgently.
I have bcc'd this email to Alex in case he has specific ideas. There are
other
people that know quite a lot about databases, particularly Base, but his is
the
name i remember most clearly most easily.
Regards from
Tom :)
----- Original Message ----
From: Nguyen Vu Hung (KiEi) <vuhung@ki-ei.com>
To: marketing@libreoffice.org; libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org
Sent: Sat, 11 June, 2011 11:00:09
Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Tasks for the summer
Hello all,
Regarding the "MHST" that we have proposed 2 months ago[1],
the good news is that our idea has been accepted and three students will
join the fun!
Well, now I want you ask/confirm some points.
1. The students want to work with some standalone app
However, IMO, working on adding a new feature to the LibO will be more
fun.
Please let me know how do you think.
2. We need a list of the ideas registered to GSoC[2]
so that we can pick an idea (a task for this summer)
3. New ideas that are not in the list [2] are OK, too :)
Cheers,
[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2011-April/010673.html
[2] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas
--
Nguyen Vu Hung (Nguye^~n Vu~ Hu+ng)
LibreOffice, Vietnamese Translation Team.
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