i cant wait to see your program running! this is one of my most needed apps on the gnome desktop. let me know if we can do something for you! daniel On Mi, 2010-04-28 at 18:28 +0200, Stéphane Maniaci wrote: > Le mardi 27 avril 2010 à 12:00 +0000, gnome-soc-list-request gnome org a > écrit : > > To begin things, it would be great that you send to this list an > > introduction mail so that the whole community knows about you, your > > project, your plans, etc. > > Well, here I go. > > My name is Stéphane Maniaci, I'm a french, 19 year-old student (I turn > 20 in July) finishing his DUT (US : associate degree, UK : higher > national diploma, other : I don't know, but it's cool) in Computer > Sciences in Montpellier. > > My proposal is about building and delivering a nice and clean > presentation authoring tool (à la Powerpoint or Impress, but we aim at > Keynote) for the GNOME Desktop. All previous projects are inactive or > dead, but two recent projects have started, Glide(C/GTK/Clutter)[1] > which you've seen on planet GNOME, and Ease(Vala/GTK/Clutter), which is > the one I'm going to work on. You might ask "why Ease?" : because I feel > like I can achieve more with Vala and that I can focus more on my > features list than how to write object-oriented C code (note that I > really love programming C, one of my favorite programming language > actually, I just think Vala will make life easier). > > My feature list looks like : > - JSON format for storing presentations ; > - Simple effect format (XML/JSon based) ; > - Export plugin (PDF/PNG) ; > - Playback visual tips : chronometer, progress bar, spotlight (as seen > in the cool Impressive project[2] ; > - Other application integration (The GIMP/Inkscape/PiTiVi/Jokosher) ; > - Online stock image fetcher : getting free, unrestricted and cool stock > images from online databases. > - Moving to the GNOME infrastructure (GNOME Git, GNOME Bugzilla, GNOME > Live) ; > - Packaging/translating infrastructure ; > - Communication (blogs.gnome.org, projects.gnome.org). > > This is my todo list for the summer. Once all of this is packed in a > simple, robust and handy program, eventually we can start thinking about > some more serious features : Telepathy magic (presentation broadcasting, > collaboration, sharing), advanced text-editing widget (should talk to > the GIMP people) and any other cool ideas that might come along the day, > but again, this is the future and not part of my GSoC roadmap. > > Last but not least, I'm really excited (and proud) to work for GNOME. > I've also checked the other GNOME GSoC students proposals, and they all > sound pretty cool, quite glad it's all going to land (hopefully) in > GNOME. > > That's it for me. If we were supposed to make it short, well I just > wrote a novel, sorry. > > Cheers, and great thanks to GNOME for letting me in, > > Stéphane. > > [1] - Glide : > http://blogs.gnome.org/racarr/2010/04/20/introducing-glide-presentations-for-gnome/ > [2] - Ease : http://github.com/NateStedman/Ease > [3] - Impressive : http://impressive.sourceforge.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-soc-list mailing list > gnome-soc-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-soc-list -- this mail was sent using 100% recycled electrons ================================================ daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gnome org> http://home.cs.tum.edu/~siegel gnupg key id: 0x6EEC9E62 fingerprint: DE5B 1F64 9034 1FB6 E120 DE10 268D AFD5 6EEC 9E62 encrypted email preferred
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