On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Pedro Giffuni <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi; > > --- Mar 6/3/12, Rob Weir <[email protected]> ha scritto: > ... >> >> Also, if anyone has a good idea but doesn't have time to >> mentor, please post your ideas. There might be someone >> else who has time to mentor but could use some ideas. >> > > Here are some ideas: >
It looks like Apache was accepted in GSoC 2012.: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/apache Is anyone entering any proposals? It looks like Pedro had some good ideas here. I entered one on the ODF Toolkit project, where I can be more "hands on" with the coding. -Rob > Clang port. > > This is desirable to help keep the code very portable and > clean and is also a good opportunity for someone wanting > to polish his/her C++ skills, but beyond this it is > critical to maintain the MacOS X port working with the > latest tools. Ideally we should commit the gnumake4 CWS > before this since it solves a issue defining the C > compiler. > > Adding support for CardDav addressbooks. > > Shipping Seamonkey is rather inconvenient for us in AOO, > it's also a huge package to carry and build only > to support external addressbooks. Supporting WebDav, > perhaps with the help of the Mulberry vCard Library, > would enable us to support standard addressbooks. > Familiarity with Webdav is required for this project. > More information is here: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/IP_Clearance_Address+Book > > Report builder as an external extension. > > This may also be applicable for the wordperfect filter > or the mysql connector: we cannot ship this functionality > with Apache OO due to licensing issues but making them > available through external extensions in Apache Extras > would be just fine. Some familiarity with the UNO API > is a prerequisite. > > PDF import extension > > We need to replace xpdf with Apache PDFBox or something > similar and add support OCR support with something like > Tesseract: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ > > I think that's enough ... for now ;). > > cheers, > > Pedro.
