On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Raghav Sethi <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm an undergrad studying Information Technology at IIIT-Delhi, India and > would love nothing better than to work with Creative Commons for GSoC 2011. > Great! :-) > I checked out the project motivation ( > http://labs.creativecommons.org/2011/03/21/cc-gsoc-integration-is-the-word/) > and the project ideas at ( > http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Developer_Challenges). I'd like to work on > the 'Build Creative Commons licensing into more content creation > applications' open challenge. > > My specific idea was to build an extension for Microsoft Office. I agree > that it's hopelessly derivative of the OpenOffice add-in ( > http://labs.creativecommons.org/category/openoffice/), but I feel that it > doesn't make the project any less useful. I've been copying CC attributions > into my papers for years, and an easy way to do that would be useful for > many people. > Microsoft has a MSOffice add-in for CC, see https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=d1ddbdc8-627f-415a-9b0a-97362bc9b480&displaylang=en As far as I know it isn't free software, nor even source available, but I could try to find out if it's of interest apart from GSoC. > Also, the other motivation for me is that this would (very frankly) be my > first time contributing to an open-source project and the fact that someone > else has completed a similar project in the 3-month timeframe is enormously > encouraging. I'm a reasonably good programmer (I get straight A's in all my > programming courses) but contributing to FOSS is something I have no > experience with, so please bear with me and point out any mistakes I'm > making. I have written a 1500+ line course project in C# (a client for a > delay-tolerant filesharing network) and am reasonably comfortable with > VS2010, so I have a bit of a handle on the development process. I'm also > comfortable with Python. > That is good thinking, much appreciated. > What I'd specifically like some feedback on is the proposal. > Frankly, I doubt we'd accept this proposal, even if it were stellar in every respect: we don't have anyone who could mentor it. None of our engineers are Windows developers, and we're bandwidth-constrained enough this summer that mentoring a project we couldn't even build and test would be a recipe for failure. > As compared to the other projects on the GSoC, CC doesn't really have a > well-defined format for it, so any kind of input you can give me to make my > application stronger will be much appreciated. > That's true, as much of the opportunity involves CC integration with other projects, so is pretty diverse. My guess is that the success of the Libre/OpenOffice add-in means there is plenty of work to be done to take it to the next level. If you're particularly interested in productivity software integration, that's where I'd advise looking. Mike -- https://creativecommons.net/ml
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