Project Proposal

[Nick Watts <fatalglory gmail com>]

Hi list, my name is Nick, I'm doing my final year of computer science at uni and I need a project for this semester.  Having been a fan of the gnome project for a while, I noted that Gnome Office is notably lacking a presentation app.  I found agnubis in my search, but I had never heard of it before, and its not listed on the main gnome office page so my guess is that it is unmaintained (and it seems to only be installable from CVS).  I would like to rectify this problem.

It would mean for me, starting a GTK+ app from scratch (my project needs to be of a reasonbly large scale) that takes advantage of many Gnome technologies (gtk, gdk pixbufs, cairo, pango, gstreamer) and putting them together into a cross platform presentation app that fits in well with other parts of Gnome Office (like Abiword and Gnumeric).  My initial thought is to create this app with the intent that it have the basic, core functionalities of competing apps like powerpoint and impress, but be simpler and lighter.  I would also build it with its own file format based on the features that are afforded to it best by the technology and that are most used by the end users, then start adding export formats like PDF and PNG slides.

What I need, is someone who would be willing to act as my "client", who can represent the Gnome project, with whom I can establish a set of requirements that this project is to fulfill.  My uni lecturer would probably contact this person at some point in the next few months, just to ask a few questions about how I handle the project, etc.

I need to finalise my choice of project in less than a week so I need to know of interested parties quickly.  Is there anyone on this list interested in being my "client"?  Or can someone point me in the direction of someone else involved in Gnome who would?

Thanks very much,
-Nick (fatalglory gmail com)