4 Jun
2008
4 Jun
'08
1:25 p.m.
Hi All,
I am working on creating a Presentation Application for Xwiki. Link:
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/xwiki/appinfo.html?csaid=27F450DE66682B26
My work would mainly be focused on creating a web based GUI for making the
slide-show presentation which would be displayed either in
S5<http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/s5-intro.html>or
Slidy <http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy>.
I have gone through the markup and structure of both S5 and Slidy and I
think Slidy is better than S5(which would be clear to you also, once you go
through the links above and check out the features available in both). So
unless suggested otherwise, I would be using Slidy for displaying the
presentation. I would love your comments and suggestions on this.
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 <vincent(a)massol.net> 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
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Arpit Jain
Senior Undergraduate Student
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
Web: http://www.arpitjain.com