Hi Carla,

Just to add a little announcement, Carla accepted to be admin with me to
this year GSoC. Thanks Carla again!

More below..

On 09. 03. 2011 21:02, Carla F. Griggio wrote:

> Talking about ideas... I remember a few months ago there was a thread
> talking about ways to manipulate EXCEL files with Pharo, and the
> conclusion was that... there weren't much options apart from exporting a
> .xls into a .csv or .xml or other format easy to parse.
> 
> Is the community interested in a project to manipulate EXCEL files directly?
> 
> On the other hand... Janko, do you think a project like this, that uses
> open source technology to interact with Office still qualifies for GSoC?

Yep, because resulting code is open source, even if interacts with
commercial software. And we need more such "I/O to other worlds" tools,
so I aggree, this could be a nice and not too difficult project.

Janko

> 
> Cheers,
> Carla.
> 
> 2011/3/9 Janko Mivšek <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> 
>     Dear Smalltalkers,
> 
>     I'd like to inform you that we are preparing an application to this year
>     Smalltalk Google Summer of Code under ESUG umbrella, as last year.
> 
>     If accepted, Google will pay few stipendiums to students on our
>     Smalltalk projects. Please start thinking about ideas what projects
>     would be nice to have. Also start looking around for students. How to
>     approach the universitites near by you, do you know who to contact
>     there, etc. To see last year ideas and accepted/done projects, visit
>     last year http://gsoc2010.esug.org.
> 
>     More on our already open special Smalltalk GSoC 2011 website:
> 
>            http://gsoc2011.esug.org
> 
>     I'm specially inviting mentors of all past GSoCs to rejoin the mentors
>     mailing list, where we discuss all details about this year GSoC:
> 
>            http://groups.google.com/group/smalltalk-gsoc-mentors
> 
>     Best regards
>     Janko
> 
>     --
>     Janko Mivšek
>     Aida/Web
>     Smalltalk Web Application Server
>     http://www.aidaweb.si
> 
> 

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