Salamz Everyone, I am intending to join Google Summer of Code this year, and of course one of the projects I'd be really interested in getting involved with is Arabeyes. I am particularly interested in Siragi, libarabic, ITL, and BiCon. However, I've got some questions regarding these projects:
- Siragi: This is one big project, and I didn't see any clear ideas about how it should be involved in GSoC. In other words, how should I -as a student- get involved with the project? What does it need? and what does it miss that can be implemented within GSoC's three-month time frame? - libarabic: I would be interested in working on normalization in libarabic, despite of my humble knowledge on that matter and on i18n in general - I am willing to learn though ;). But how should we deal with the absence of a standard on normalization, should we get over this and present our very own implementation? - ITL I've seen in the wiki that ITL needs to be ported to other languages. I like this idea very much as it suits GSoC ideally. It doesn't seem so hard and is doable within 3 months. But I have a few stupid questions here: * What is exactly meant by porting? Should the whole code be ported to other languages, or should we simply implement bindings to them? * Should the student port to more than one language, or is one language enough ? (For myself, I would like to do that with Java and/or PHP) - BiCon I've use BiCon myself before and I recall it had some bugs. While I'd have been interested in attempting some bug squashing, documentation, and providing packages for a handful of distros, but these don't seem very good as project proposals. So my question is what features do you think can be added/enhanced/fixed in BiCon? Unfortunately the project page isn't too informative in this regard, so what'd be your input on this? I am sorry for bombarding you with a long series of stupid questions, so I hope I didn't bother you. Regards, Mohammed Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
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