Re: [xwiki-devs] Welcoming our GSoC students

Hi all, congrats to all the other students who were accepted! I'm Alexandru Cismaru (Alex, alexmaru on the IRC) and I'll work on "XWiki widget and firefox extension" being mentored by Guillaume Lerouge, this project is about exposing wiki relevant information in a widget. Because I was a GSOC student last year I expect to perform very well and to exceed your expectations. Here is my plan of action: 1. Doing some research about the diferences between different widget platforms. 2. Discuss with the community about the architecture and user interface of the widget. 3. Develop a web widget (maybe for iGoogle). 4. Customize the web widget to work with other web platforms (NetVibes, Facebook, and others). 5. Develop a desktop widget (for Google Gadgets), it should be similar to the web widget . 6. Customise the desktop widget to work with other desktop widget platforms (Vista Sidebar, Dashboard, and others). 7. Develop the Firefox Extension (with the web widget functionalities), the user interface will be defined with XUL, but I think we will reuse much of the web widget Javascript code. 8. Develop a rich internet application with the functionalities of the widget, in Adobe AIR. Thank you for accepting me, you'll not be disappointed. Best Regards, Alex