Hi. Just for info, I submitted 2 projects to VAL http://vps2.semesterofcode.com
And it seems there is a student interested in doing: Create a compliance document for ODF/OXML implementationsStatistics Number of student views: 1 Number of times marked by a student: 0 Apache Corinthia http://corinthia.incubator.apache.org/ is a project that concentrates on generating a data loss free documenter converter as well as a responsive design document editor for mobile devices (touch enabled devices). Office Documents of today usually use either the ODF or the OOXML standards. These standards are very well documented and standardized. However both standards include a larger number of items that are - "optional", meaning a given implementation may not support and may even delete it - "implementation defined", meaning nobody really knows how it is handled. When organisations tender for new office programs, they trust that asking for ODF/OOXML secures interoperability, sadly enough that is not case. In this project, we aim at providing a complaince sheet divided in 2 parts: - Optional features - Implementation defined features And made as a list of checkmarks with comments, so the implementor can fill it out, and the organisations can use it to compare vendors. The project is more research than actual programming. The standards are quite big, and not easy to read (for non-programmers), so the challenge is to convert it into something easy understandable. If time permits it would be an added feature to make the sheet available online, e.g. as part of the corinthia web. More information can be found at http://corinthia.incubator.apache.org/ ---- The project will run over the summer and I will be mentor, but I hope you will all help with specifics. Have a nice day rgds jan I.
