Re: [xwiki-devs] Presentation Application (was Re: [GSOC] Today is GSOC project starting day)

Slidy's download link is mentioned in Slide No. 5<http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/#%285%29>of its tutorial. You can download it from here <http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/slidy.zip>. I know they should have placed it specifically somewhere else where it should have been easy to locate.

And yes, you are right. I also couldn't find any work going on in this direction on both of these projects. For S5, there are few people who are working independently and have developed few extensions as you mentioned. They tried to collaborate the efforts at http://s5project.org/ but this one is also not updated since 2006. For Slidy, there has been no update. It's mentioned by Dave Raggett at few places(including the Slidy tutorial) that he is working on a Wysywig editor to create Slidy presentation. Image of the alpha version here<http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/editor/editor- screenshot1.png>. But there has been no update on this one also. I found couple of more similar projects on netzgesta's site<http://www.netzgesta.de/S5/download.php>which are Slideous <http://goessner.net/articles/slideous/> and AJAX-S<http://www.robertnyman.com/2005/11/13/proudly-presenting-ajax-s/ they have the same problem of no contributions and updates. I think Slidy and S5 are our best bet and we should choose one of them and start working. And they contain most of the features that a "Simple" presentation requires. Also, both of them use similar markups, therefore, modifying the Slide Generator code(which I would be writing) for the other one won't be that difficult. What say?

Other frameworks: SlideML <http://slideml.bitflux.ch/> => Download link not working. Thanks - Arpit > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> I plan to finalize the structure and markup to be used by the end of >> this >> weekend. Then I will start working on creating the GUI interface. I >> would >> finish most of the features of it like Slide creation, Slide >> navigation, >> Insert images/hyperlink, Bullets, Changing color etc. by first or >> second >> week of July. I will keep posting my updates here. >> >> Then I will work on other features like creating templates, >> converting to >> PDF, changing background/layout of slides. Some of these >> functionalities are >> not available in Slidy, so I would have to modify its code to >> include them. >> >> >> -Arpit Jain >> >> >> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Vincent Massol &lt;vincent(a)massol.net&gt; >> wrote: >> >>> Hi GSOCers, >>> >>> The bonding period is over and today starts your GSOC project >>> period. >>> Note that this doesn't mean you should drop whatever JIRA issue you >>> had assigned to yourself. Please continue to work on it and >>> *finish* >>> it. It's important. >>> >>> However it means that from today onwards you can start working on >>> your >>> project. The most important thing to do is send an email on the >>> xwiki >>> dev list explaining: >>> * what architecture you're envisioning to use for your project. If >>> you >>> have doubts/questions please mention them. >>> * A general planning breaking down the high level tasks you have to >>> do >>> and giving deadlines for each. That'll help you reach your >>> objectives >>> and in that manner we (the mentors and the community in general) >>> can >>> also help you by reviewing milestone objectives and helping you >>> achieve them >>> * what are your next steps and when you're planning to have them >>> done >>> * Any questions you have >>> >>> Please use the mailing list over IRC and especially over direct >>> skype/ >>> chat. Again it's really important that you work with the community. >>> The success of your SOC depends on that as much as finishing your >>> project. >>> >>> Thanks, good luck and have fun! >>> -Vincent on behalf of the XWiki mentors