On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Vincent Massol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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. I looked for Google Presentation API and I couldn't find them. Google have APIs for spreadsheets and for Google Data in general, but I couldn't find anything related to Presentation. Can you please help me on that? > > > 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 > -- Arpit Jain Senior Undergraduate Student Department of Computer Science & Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. Web: http://www.arpitjain.com _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
