Hi libredwg developers, I'm Fernando Lucchesi, and I am at my third year studying Computer Engineering at Unicamp, Brazil. I had the opportunity to talk to Rodrigo and Felipe at FISL last year =)
(I've been lurking at the mailing list since then, but didn't introduce myself) I'm also applying to Inkscape, but as they say it's not wise to put all eggs in one basket, here I am. The idea of this lib is very driving because it's about freedom of data, about using the tool of your choice to edit your own files. I suffered a bit fighting to open some old cdr files on inkscape, so I understand where this comes from. Because of that, the idea that I would like to try is the DWG write support, so that the freedom goes both ways (and people are able to work with others while using free tools, since there isn't a really open standard yet AFAIK). I think that C wouldn't be a big problem, since I've been forced to learn it at the university, after 3 semesters of rather intense coding =) (the 4th was with other languages). I haven't made any program with binary output, though. The biggest problem I see is to grok the code and the GNU coding style. I have a little knowledge of Autocad, since I had a semester of classes (at my former university). But it was back in 2007, so I wouldn't go as far as to say that I remember a lot of it. The problem is that I know nothing about the internals of DWG(or OpenDWG), so I would need to study it from the very beggining. Is it worth a shot? -- Fernando Lucchesi Bastos Jurema UNICAMP - Engenharia de Computação 09 CACo - Centro Acadêmico da Computação Coordenador de Marketing e Produtos - gestão 2010/2011
