On 1/1/14, Gary Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/01/14 17:48, Olemis Lang wrote: >> Application submission deadline for Google Summer of Code is >> approaching (3 February - 19:00 UTC) . Shall we start thinking in >> advance about any submissions ? >> > > As far as I am aware that is not something that we do independently of > the ASF.
yes, agreed ... > I'll keep my eye out for any relevant discussions but we still > have a good amount of time before we have to produce potential projects. > ... what I had in mind initially (maybe not so evident in my previous message , sorry) was to suggest spending some time on thinking about what projects (related to Bloodhound) could be appropriate to suggest for GSoC students to handle , and prepare ourselves (and the code in /trunk if necessary ;) to better help them in completing their assignment . <joke>I do not know whether the speed of light is still the same , but last year was so intense that I barely noticed the duration of a whole month ...</joke> fwiw , just to start , an initial proposal I had in mind was to implement an in-browser PDF file viewer powered by pdf.js [1]_ (or equivalent) tightly integrated with core MIME API for previews, but ... maybe this will require to work towards relaxing file size limits in API methods ... Does this make any sense so as to deserve becoming an actual GSoC proposal ? .. [1] http://mozillalabs.com/pdfjs -- Regards, Olemis - @olemislc
