4 Jun
2008
4 Jun
'08
1:50 p.m.
Hi Arpit,
On Jun 4, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Arpit Jain wrote:
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.
After a quick glance, it does indeed "seem" that Slidy might be better
than S5 although that's not a fully given since they seem to have the
same features. I like the fact that slidy is backed by the W3C
although it looks more like a one man-effort than a full-fledged
project. I searched quickly and couldn't find activity information on
these projects:
* number of committers,
* last commits
* date of last releases
Ideally we should choose a combination of the most active project +
the project with the best future.
All I can find about Slidy is dated 2006 which is worrying me a bit. I
couldn't find a download page for it either.
Regarding S5 seems like someone is continuing the work: http://www.netzgesta.de/S5/
(http://www.netzgesta.de/S5/download.php)
Do you think you could find some activity information?
To be honest right now I don't like any of these project since:
* they don't seem to have a community
* I don't see bug trackers for them
* I don't see SCM access to the sources
Thus I'm not convinced about their futures so far. WDYT?
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 <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