Hi David, Is there someone one might write to about the importance of this task? I think if the coding team understood (a) the extent to which current bibliographic functions block adoption by academics, and (b) the importance of educational markets in adoption of new software, then there'd be a somewhat different valuation of priorities (e.g., a native SQLite driver would be great, but I doubt we'll pick up a whole lot of new users that way!).
Thanks, Matt On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:28:38PM +1000, David Wilson wrote: > The 6 successful Summer of Code applicants and their tasks have been > announced. (see message below) > > There were about 20 SOC applications for OpenOffice that where judged > suitable to mentor, two applicants were judged suitable to perform > Bibliographic project projects tasks. One of these task was for the Basic > Citation Enhancements to Writer that we really need to get do to continue > with prototyping and other development work. However Google were only funding > six applicants for OpenOffice. The 6 finalists were chosen by the project > mentors (really the list of possible mentors - the list on recipients of the > email quoted below) who were given 5 votes to allocate to their favourite > tasks. > > Unfortunately neither of the two Bibliographic tasks were voted by the > mentors > into the final six. In fact the only person to vote for the bibliographic > tasks was me ! > > Clearly we have some work to do in promoting the Bibliographic Project within > the OpenOffice community and within the Sun OpenOffice development team. > > I am working on proposals to attend the OpenOffice Conference (OOoCon 2006) > in > September and if these are accepted the conference will be a good place to > promote the Bibliographic Project. > > I would be happy to receive suggestions from list members on how to improve > our status and visibility within OpenOffice. > > regards > > David > > > > > > > > > Subject: SoC: 6 Projects Above the Line > Date: Tuesday 23 May 2006 10:52 pm > From: Stefan Taxhet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Stefan Taxhet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Andreas Bregas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "eric.bachard" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tino Rachui - Sun Germany - Development - Software > Engineer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], michael > meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Niklas Nebel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sven Jacobi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jürgen Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hennes > Rohling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Fridrich Strba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ocke Janssen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Oliver Specht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Wilson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Florian Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Florian Heckl > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi, > > the following 6 projects are above the line after the ranking period has > closed. > > UNO service for grammar checkers in OOo Writer. > Bruno César Brito Sant'Anna Oliver Specht > > Mac OS X's Aqua Porting of OpenOffice.org > Pierre de Filippis Bachard Eric > > (Calc) Show formula syntax in tip help > Hugo André Amaral Rodrigues Niklas Nebel > > Import Filter for WordPerfect Graphics files > Ariya Hidayat Fridrich Strba > > Native SQLite driver - Project > André Klitzing Ocke Janssen > > Implementation of BASIC Object Browser > Ramon Garcia Fernandez Andreas Bregas > > I will welcome the students tomorrow after they received their > acceptance mail from Google. > I would like introduce some guidelines covering > - permission to publish student's name / email tied to the project > - request for JCA, SSH-key > - subscription to and usage of public lists > - relevant documentation in the wiki > - request for deliverables and schedule > - specification > - weekly report / blog > > So I will bombard them early with all the formal requirements we should > put in place to avoid the mistakes we made last year. > > Greetings > Stefan > > -------------------------- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
