Andreas Martens (and others involved in OpenOffice Bibliography
development);
My name is James Stevenson,
and I'm contacting you regarding participation in the "Summer of Code"
mentoring program offered by Google. Specifically, I'm interested in adding
bibliographic features to OpenOffice, and was actually planning on submitting a
proposal to work on this functionality before I noticed it was listed as a
potential project. I would like to add not only integration with other
bibliography programs, but also built-in formatting functionality. As a student,
I don't own or use bibliography software, although I've used the university's
web based tool, RefWorks (which from a user interface perspective is still
clunky). While being able to import from other sources is important, I believe
it would also greatly benefit students to be able to perform these functions
inside OpenOffice.
I am a computer science
student at Brigham Young University in my senior year, and will be starting
graduate work soon. My cumulative GPA is 3.85. I've been employed for the
past year as an intern at IBM developing applications with Lotus Notes and
maintaining a department Domino server. I work from home, and so am used to
self-driven development from home. I have a special interest in desiging good,
usable software. The software I develop is in use by about 200
people, and directly helps them support large clients such as American
Express. Starting from 1999, I've had jobs designing internet applications using
Perl and MySQL, including a summer extensively modifying the Slashdot
template for use by Alaskan parents and educators. I'm attaching my resume if
you would like more details on my qualifications.
I realize the application
deadline is quickly approaching, so please let me know if you would be willing
to mentor me in this project. There are also a couple of other projects that
interest me:
1) Theasaurus: "Design and build code that will combine information on
prefixes and suffixes" -- My wife graduates in August with a degree in
linguistics, and from her I've gained a special interest in language
parsing, and will probably enter graduate school with an emphasis in natural
language processing. This project would interest me very
much.
2) Although it's not really
much of a coding project, I would enjoy developing templates for
OpenOffice, as I see a need for good templates for new users. I personally
dislike Microsoft's PowerPoint presentations (some of them are kind of ugly) and
would like to develop extensive, good looking, practical, templates for
OpenOffice. It would encourage new users to start using the program, because
they could quickly get started using it. First impressions mean a lot for new
users!
Thank you very much for
your consideration!
James
Stevenson
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