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 &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

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

I looked for Google Presentation API and I couldn't find them. Google have APIs for spreadsheets and for Google Data in general, but I couldn't find anything related to Presentation. Can you please help me on that?

Yes, we should have an interface to isolate us from either S5 or Slidy so that we don't don't have a single dependency on it in our code (beyond the interface implementation).

It would be cool if this interface could also be implemented using Google Presentation API for example. Thanks -Vincent