On Jun 5, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Arpit Jain wrote: [snip]
>>> >> 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. > > > Slidy's download link is mentioned in Slide No. > 5<http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/#%285%29>of its tutorial. You > can download it from > here <http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/slidy.zip>. I know they > should > have placed it specifically somewhere else where it should have > been easy > to locate. Pb is that we don't know what version it is and when it was released. This is really amateurish work... ;) >> 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? > > > And yes, you are right. I also couldn't find any work going on in > this > direction on both of these projects. For S5, there are few people > who are > working independently and have developed few extensions as you > mentioned. > They tried to collaborate the efforts at http://s5project.org/ but > this one > is also not updated since 2006. > For Slidy, there has been no update. It's mentioned by Dave Raggett > at few > places(including the Slidy tutorial) that he is working on a Wysywig > editor > to create Slidy presentation. Image of the alpha version > here<http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/editor/editor- > screenshot1.png>. > But there has been no update on this one also. > > I found couple of more similar projects on netzgesta's > site<http://www.netzgesta.de/S5/download.php>which are > Slideous <http://goessner.net/articles/slideous/> and > AJAX-S<http://www.robertnyman.com/2005/11/13/proudly-presenting-ajax-s/ > >but > they have the same problem of no contributions and updates. > > I think Slidy and S5 are our best bet and we should choose one of > them and > start working. And they contain most of the features that a "Simple" > presentation requires. > Also, both of them use similar markups, therefore, modifying the Slide > Generator code(which I would be writing) for the other one won't be > that > difficult. > What say? Yes, we should have an interface to isolate us from either S5 or Slidy so that we don't don't have a single dependency on it in our code (beyond the interface implementation). It would be cool if this interface could also be implemented using Google Presentation API for example. Thanks -Vincent > Other frameworks: > SlideML <http://slideml.bitflux.ch/> => Download link not working. > > Thanks > - Arpit > > >> >> 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
