Mike, Thanks for the prompt (and helpful) reply!
I wouldn't mind working on the LibreOffice/OpenOffice plugin at all, but as far as I tested it, it seems to be pretty complete. Are there any specific features that CC would like me to implement? I can't really think of any substantial improvements to the plug-in. Cheers, Raghav On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Mike Linksvayer <[email protected]>wrote: > 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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