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 > > -- Janko Mivšek Svetovalec za informatiko Eranova d.o.o. Ljubljana, Slovenija www.eranova.si tel: 01 514 22 55 faks: 01 514 22 56 gsm: 031 674 565
