Hi Amer, On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Amer Tahir <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

I'm a BSc Computer Science student studying at LUMS, Pakistan and I wish to contribute to XWiki project through GSoC 2010.

I'm familiar with OpenOffice integration with wikis, I did a university project on a similar idea for MediaWiki, but I feel that I can use the same techniques to export wiki content to Word/PDF/HTML using OpenOffice components.

I've recently familiarized myself with XWiki and it's powerful architecture excites me. I can't wait to start working on it. I would like to know what do the mentors (Asiri Rathnayake and Florin Ciubotaru) expect from this project, any limitations/bottlenecks they suspect that might need to be taken care of and so on.

I've not worked on open-source projects before, but I've worked on many web-based and software projects with sufficient experience of Java programming.

Waiting for an opportunity to get on board,

Great! You should familiarize with following topics: (rough idea) - Building XWiki from source (source tree, svn, maven etc.) - Get familiar with XWiki's component based architecture (there is a tutorial on writing a HelloWorld XWiki component). - Get familiar with XWiki OfficeImporter application and its internals. - Check out jodconverter's capabilities on HTML -> (Other Formats) conversion. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on this list :) - Asiri

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