Hi Arpit, On Jun 4, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Arpit Jain wrote:
> Hi All, > I am working on creating a Presentation Application for Xwiki. Link: > http://code.google.com/soc/2008/xwiki/appinfo.html?csaid=27F450DE66682B26 > > My work would mainly be focused on creating a web based GUI for > making the > slide-show presentation which would be displayed either in > S5<http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/s5-intro.html>or > Slidy <http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy>. > > I have gone through the markup and structure of both S5 and Slidy > and I > think Slidy is better than S5(which would be clear to you also, once > you go > through the links above and check out the features available in > both). So > unless suggested otherwise, I would be using Slidy for displaying the > presentation. I would love your comments and suggestions on this. After a quick glance, it does indeed "seem" that Slidy might be better than S5 although that's not a fully given since they seem to have the same features. I like the fact that slidy is backed by the W3C although it looks more like a one man-effort than a full-fledged project. I searched quickly and couldn't find activity information on these projects: * number of committers, * last commits * date of last releases Ideally we should choose a combination of the most active project + the project with the best future. All I can find about Slidy is dated 2006 which is worrying me a bit. I couldn't find a download page for it either. Regarding S5 seems like someone is continuing the work: http://www.netzgesta.de/S5/ (http://www.netzgesta.de/S5/download.php) Do you think you could find some activity information? To be honest right now I don't like any of these project since: * they don't seem to have a community * I don't see bug trackers for them * I don't see SCM access to the sources Thus I'm not convinced about their futures so far. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent > I plan to finalize the structure and markup to be used by the end of > this > weekend. Then I will start working on creating the GUI interface. I > would > finish most of the features of it like Slide creation, Slide > navigation, > Insert images/hyperlink, Bullets, Changing color etc. by first or > second > week of July. I will keep posting my updates here. > > Then I will work on other features like creating templates, > converting to > PDF, changing background/layout of slides. Some of these > functionalities are > not available in Slidy, so I would have to modify its code to > include them. > > > -Arpit Jain > > > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Vincent Massol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Hi GSOCers, >> >> The bonding period is over and today starts your GSOC project period. >> Note that this doesn't mean you should drop whatever JIRA issue you >> had assigned to yourself. Please continue to work on it and *finish* >> it. It's important. >> >> However it means that from today onwards you can start working on >> your >> project. The most important thing to do is send an email on the xwiki >> dev list explaining: >> * what architecture you're envisioning to use for your project. If >> you >> have doubts/questions please mention them. >> * A general planning breaking down the high level tasks you have to >> do >> and giving deadlines for each. That'll help you reach your objectives >> and in that manner we (the mentors and the community in general) can >> also help you by reviewing milestone objectives and helping you >> achieve them >> * what are your next steps and when you're planning to have them done >> * Any questions you have >> >> Please use the mailing list over IRC and especially over direct >> skype/ >> chat. Again it's really important that you work with the community. >> The success of your SOC depends on that as much as finishing your >> project. >> >> Thanks, good luck and have fun! >> -Vincent on behalf of the XWiki mentors _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
