Hi Glenn, The GSoC doesn't relate directly to the ASF or FOP directly, however, putting a few FOP projects as proposals would be a good way to get some new interest into the project. I think it would be good for us as we benefit from any work done, and it helps whomever does the work learn the various skills that we as a community can impart upon them.
I've included a link to the GSoC below, but if you do some research, there's plenty of information out there. http://code.google.com/soc/ Mehdi On 1 March 2012 16:13, Glenn Adams <gl...@skynav.com> wrote: > could you provide a link to the "Google Summer of Code Project"? how does it > relate to ASF and FOP activities? > > > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:50 AM, mehdi houshmand <med1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> We're thinking of submitting a proposal or two to the Google Summer of >> Code project and wanted to get some input from the community on ideas. >> Once we've got a few proposals I'll create a wiki page and put all the >> ideas on there, but for now I just wanted to gauge interest. >> >> In terms of mentoring, I'm happy to be a mentor and I've registered as >> one and if any other committers fancy the job, do register, the more >> the merrier. The deadline is 9th March, so that doesn't give us long >> to bounce around ideas, but here are a few I was thinking: >> >> - There have been recent discussions between Jeremias, myself and >> others about extracting the Fonts packages into their own library. I >> think this would be a great idea for a project because essentially it >> only involves a few, well defined specifications (TTF, Type1 etc) and >> doesn't expose the person to too much complexity. The way I'd suggest >> this to be done, is by re-writing rather than porting, that way it >> gives the person much more flexibility and also the current code would >> give them good tips and tricks on how to deal with parsing fonts. >> >> - TTF in AFP. I know we still have the TrueTypeInPostScript branch >> flying around, and however much I'd like to fob that onto someone >> else, I don't think it's fair to do so. I have no idea how long this >> project would take, but I think FOP could really benefit from it. >> Currently we're forcing users to use AFP fonts for AFP documents, a >> lot of which are archaic and use EBCDIC, for those of you who haven't >> been exposed to EBCDIC, count yourself lucky. >> >> There may be something to do with PCL?? I'm not at all familiar with >> the format, but I do remember discussions about upgrading to a newer >> PCL standard? I'd be happy to acquaint myself with the format if >> there's interest in the idea. >> >> Hopefully we can get a proposal together in time. >> >> Mehdi > >
