Yeah, we've had at least one other person submit a proposal around updating the existing OOo extension.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:23 PM, TalkOut a.k.a. Nimal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nathan, > > Thanks for the details. > > I feel I will be more capable of updating the existing OpenOffice.org > plugin. > I already have some OOo development and localization experience and OOo has > be my office suite for sometime. > So I'll look into the links you have provided and come up with a draft > proposal, so that we can continue from there. > I feel with a draft proposal we will be able to shape up our ideas more. > > Is there anyone else already expressed interest for this project idea? > > Nimal > > IRC: talkout > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Nathan Yergler > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Nimal, >> >> Great to hear that you're interested. A few details: >> >> There are two OpenOffice.org ideas. One is a port of the Microsoft >> developed Office plugin (http://ucsdbiolit.codeplex.com/). We'd like >> to be able to tag words as part of an ontology within Writer >> documents. Ideally the plugin should be able to consume an arbitrary >> ontology, and then we can ship it with a few already included (such as >> the biomedical ontology, etc). >> >> The second OpenOffice.org related project is updating our existing >> plugin in several ways; see >> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OpenOffice_Plugin_Updates for an >> overview. >> >> The WordPress idea is probably the least well defined at this point. >> It'd be nice to extend the WordPress editor to allow authors to add >> RDFa to their posts, similar to how they can already mark text as >> bold, italicized or linked. Like the OOo Ontology plugin it'd be good >> to provide an extensible route for adding vocabulary, but we should >> probably ship with support for common things like dublin core metadata >> and support for marking up media in the posts. >> >> If you have specific questions about any of these projects, please let us >> know. >> >> Nathan >> >> >> 2009/3/23 TalkOut a.k.a. Nimal <[email protected]>: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm Nimal, a final year undergraduate student in Computer Science and >> > Engineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I'm interested to >> > doing >> > a GSoC 2009 project with Creative Commons development. I have been >> > involved >> > in many open source projects development and localization for the last 4 >> > years, including WordPress, Moodle, Firefox, Sahana, and OpenOffice. >> > This >> > time I got interested with some projects ideas given in the CC wiki. And >> > they include my love for the projects and my for this licence. >> > >> > I'm manily interested in the OpenOffice Plugin or the WordPress plugin >> > and I >> > feel they suite me and I have development experience with both those. So >> > I >> > would like to learn a little more about the requirements from the >> > community >> > as you are the people who would know this better. >> > >> > I tried to catch any mentors on #cc, but couldn't get hold of any, so if >> > there is anyone who could help me out, I'll be greatly thank full to >> > you. >> > >> > Hope to work wiht CC this GSoC. >> > >> > -- >> > Nimal >> > >> > IRC: talkout >> > Email: [email protected] >> > Blog: http://thetalkouttrojans.blogspot.com/ >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > cc-devel mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel >> > >> > > > _______________________________________________ cc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel
