Hi Amer,

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Amer Tahir <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm a BSc Computer Science student studying at LUMS, Pakistan and I
> wish to contribute to XWiki project through GSoC 2010.
>
> I'm familiar with OpenOffice integration with wikis, I did a
> university project on a similar idea for MediaWiki, but I feel that I
> can use the same techniques to export wiki content to Word/PDF/HTML
> using OpenOffice components.
>
> I've recently familiarized myself with XWiki and it's powerful
> architecture excites me. I can't wait to start working on it. I would
> like to know what do the mentors (Asiri Rathnayake and Florin
> Ciubotaru) expect from this project, any limitations/bottlenecks they
> suspect that might need to be taken care of and so on.
>
> I've not worked on open-source projects before, but I've worked on
> many web-based and software projects with sufficient experience of
> Java programming.
>
> Waiting for an opportunity to get on board,
>

Great!

You should familiarize with following topics: (rough idea)

- Building XWiki from source (source tree, svn, maven etc.)

- Get familiar with XWiki's component based architecture (there is a
tutorial on writing a HelloWorld  XWiki component).

- Get familiar with XWiki OfficeImporter application and its internals.

- Check out jodconverter's capabilities on HTML -> (Other Formats)
conversion.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask on this list :)

- Asiri


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