Google Summer of Code 2023

[peter frane]

To whom it may concern,

My name is Peter Frane, my username at IRC is PeterF. I am an editor by
profession and a freelance programmer.

I am interested to participate in the following projects:

*Remember window size per document*

Here's how I plan to approach this. I will save the application's window
size as a member field (struct) of the module that launches the
application. When the application is relaunched, the values in the struct
will be used.

*Convert Writer's Java UNO API tests to C++*

I have knowledge of Java, but my knowledge of C++ is more advanced.

I would like to discuss more of these in an interview, and I look forward
to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Peter D. Frane, Jr.

P.S. My GitHub page is at https://github.com/pgfjr?tab=repositories.

Re: Application to the Google Summer of Code program

[Ilmari Lauhakangas]

On 22.3.2023 17.36, Damian Koterba wrote:

Dear Sir/Madam,


I am a computer science student and very interested in applying to the 
Google Summer of Code program under LibreOffice. I would like to know 
what projects are currently available and what requirements must be met 
to participate in the program.


Projects:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas

How to apply:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/2023#How_to_apply

Dates:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/2023#Important_dates

Submit a proposal and solve a difficultyInteresting easy hack
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/EasyHacks/by_Required_Skill/Skill_C%2B%2B

Ilmari

Application to the Google Summer of Code program

[Damian Koterba]

Dear Sir/Madam,


I am a computer science student and very interested in applying to the
Google Summer of Code program under LibreOffice. I would like to know what
projects are currently available and what requirements must be met to
participate in the program.


Although I have not yet worked on large projects or office software, as an
ambitious student, I am ready to learn and develop my programming skills as
part of the LibreOffice project.


I kindly request for information regarding the application process and
contact with potential mentors who could assist me in the project's
implementation. As a C++ programmer, I am ready for the challenge and will
make every effort to fully utilize my skills and contribute to the
development of the software.


Thank you for taking the time to read my email. I appreciate any
information regarding the GSoC program and am grateful for any assistance
in submitting my application.


Sincerely,

Damian Koterba

Martin Estrin Google Summer of Code

[Marty Estrin]

Hello,

My name is Martin Estrin, and I am a sophomore at the University of
Southern California studying Computer Science. I am a candidate contributor
for Google Summer of Code. I wanted to briefly introduce myself.

Best regards,
Martin

Request to accept in Google Summer of Code

[sai mahanth Rallapalli]

Respected sir,

Iam Sai Mahanth Rallapalli currently pursuing BTech 3rd year in Information
Technology at Indian Institute Of Engineering Science and Technology,
I request you to provide me an opportunity to contribute to the project

I do competitive programming and also have a good grip on data structures
and algorithms. I prefer python but also have a good grip on C, C + +,
Java,during my academics i have learnt concepts like database management ,
operating systems, object oriented programming. Also did a self project on
path visualisation and worked on frontend web development. Iam rated 4* on
Codechef and also good in academics.

I am currently working on deep neural networks and previously worked on
machine learning spam detections.

I am really enthusiastic, focused and ready to give my 100% during the
project.

Please find my attached Resume.

Thank you,

Sai Mahanth Rallapalli,
3rd year Information Technology,
8309784118
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur


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Re: Request to accept in Google Summer of Code

[sai mahanth Rallapalli]

Dear sir,

Do review my recent work on customer segment analysis (on deep neural
networks AI) which is currently in TCS Inframind Finals (Nationwide
Hackathon).
youtube link: http://youtu.be/3I0-YX48Avs?hd=1
Drive link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NRsP46KhKR3sd6p1JC-f8Z2d1RTgF9fw?usp=sharing


Thank you,

Sai Mahanth Rallapalli,
Information Technology department,
Indian Institute Of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur.
Contact Number: 8309784118

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 9:16 PM sai mahanth Rallapalli <
saimahanthrallapalli2...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Respected sir,
>
> Iam Sai Mahanth Rallapalli currently pursuing BTech 3rd year in
> Information Technology at Indian Institute Of Engineering Science and
> Technology,
> I request you to provide me an opportunity to contribute to the project
>
> I do competitive programming and also have a good grip on data structures
> and algorithms. I prefer python but also have a good grip on C, C + +,
> Java,during my academics i have learnt concepts like database management ,
> operating systems, object oriented programming. Also did a self project on
> path visualisation and worked on frontend web development. Iam rated 4* on
> Codechef and also good in academics.
>
> I am currently working on deep neural networks and previously worked on
> machine learning spam detections.
>
> I am really enthusiastic, focused and ready to give my 100% during the
> project.
>
> Please find my attached Resume.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Sai Mahanth Rallapalli,
> 3rd year Information Technology,
> 8309784118
> Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur
>
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Re: Projects For Google Summer Of Code

[Michael Stahl]

hi Shivam,

On 30.04.19 07:01, Shivam Bansal wrote:
I wish to know if there are any availability for any projects under you 
for Google Summer Of Codes.


good to hear you're interested in starting early for GSoC 2020!

we don't know yet if LibreOffice will be accepted as a project by 
Google, but we have been in the past, so we're optimistic.


so you have about 10 months to prepare by getting a build of git master 
and working on some easy-hacks :)


https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GetInvolved
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/EasyHacks

regards,
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Projects For Google Summer Of Code

[Shivam Bansal]

Hello, 
I wish to know if there are any availability for any projects under you for 
Google Summer Of Codes.

Thanks and Regards 
Shivam Bansal


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Re: Google Summer of Code Questions

[Markus Mohrhard]

Hey,

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 1:16 AM Zhiye Hong 
wrote:

> Dear mentors.
>
> I'm undergraduate student from University of Sydney. I have high skills in
> python programming and wish to do Google summer code. But I'm brand new and
> have no idea how to write a decent proposal.
>
> My WAM is around 80 and have a good understanding on the skills listed in
> your GSOC page.
>
> Can I get some instructions? I know the decline is close, but I would like
> to have a go. Thanks you!
>


You are really late and would need to solve an easy hack and write a
proposal.

Our instructions for GSoC can be found at
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas and the
instructions for getting involved which you need for an easy hack can be
found at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GetInvolved

Regards,
Markus

>
> Regards,
>
> Roger Hong
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Google Summer of Code Questions

[Zhiye Hong]

Dear mentors. 

I'm undergraduate student from University of Sydney. I have high skills in 
python programming and wish to do Google summer code. But I'm brand new and 
have no idea how to write a decent proposal. 

My WAM is around 80 and have a good understanding on the skills listed in your 
GSOC page.

Can I get some instructions? I know the decline is close, but I would like to 
have a go. Thanks you! 

Regards,

Roger Hong

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Google Summer of Code

[Supriya Palli]

Hello,



My name is Supriya Palli and I am a first-year Computer Science B.S.
student at Florida State University. I currently finishing up a C++ course
in Object Oriented Programming and am looking for ways to continue my
learning in C++ and other technologies over the summer. I noticed that some
of the projects you have listed for Google Summer of Code include C++ as a
skill, but I am not sure I would meet the other skill requirements. Are
there any specific projects you would recommend for beginners? Or any
projects I could contribute to outside of the Google Summer of Code program?


*Thank You,*
*Supriya Palli*
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Re: To apply for internship on Google Summer Of Code

[Xisco Fauli]

Hi,

Welcome to LibreOffice! It is nice to see you are interested in applying
for a GSoC project. Having skill/knowledge/experience in programming,
and especially in C++ helps a lot while working on the LibreOffice
code-base.

As the student application date for GSoC is approaching, we suggest you to

* Go through the LibreOffice development getting started page [0]
* Start with solving some 'beginner' easyHacks [1]
* Solve at least one 'interesting' easyHack
* Start discussing your ideas with possible mentors, and preparing your
proposal
* Don't leave your proposal to the last day. Sooner is better.

Also checking the GSoC ideas page first, and trying to choose the
easyHacks related to your probable idea(s) might be a good idea [2], and
perhaps also the page for ideas without a mentor yet [3].

If you ever get stuck (after doing the usual leg-work (re(search), try,
debug etc.) yourself), please don't hesitate to ask your questions
either on the #libreoffice-dev IRC channel, or on this mailing list.

[0] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GetInvolved
[1]
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/EasyHacks/by_Required_Skill
[2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas
[3]
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas_without_a_mentor

El 14/3/19 a les 8:09, sravan jain ha escrit:
>
> Good evening sir,
>
> I wish to apply for apply for internship on Google Summer Of Code for
> development of libre office.
>
>  
>
> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for
> Windows 10
>
>  
>
>
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To apply for internship on Google Summer Of Code

[sravan jain]

Good evening sir,
I wish to apply for apply for internship on Google Summer Of Code for 
development of libre office.

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

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Re: Requesting for work in google summer of Code

[Xisco Fauli]

Hi Ajay Tripuramallu,

Welcome to LibreOffice! It is nice to see you are interested in applying
for a GSoC project. Having skill/knowledge/experience in programming,
and especially in C++ helps a lot while working on the LibreOffice
code-base.

As the student application date for GSoC is approaching, we suggest you to

* Go through the LibreOffice development getting started page [0]
* Start with solving some 'beginner' easyHacks [1]
* Solve at least one 'interesting' easyHack
* Start discussing your ideas with possible mentors, and preparing your
proposal
* Don't leave your proposal to the last day. Sooner is better.

Also checking the GSoC ideas page first, and trying to choose the
easyHacks related to your probable idea(s) might be a good idea [2], and
perhaps also the page for ideas without a mentor yet [3].

If you ever get stuck (after doing the usual leg-work (re(search), try,
debug etc.) yourself), please don't hesitate to ask your questions
either on the #libreoffice-dev IRC channel, or on this mailing list.

[0] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GetInvolved
[1]
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/EasyHacks/by_Required_Skill

[2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas


El 12/3/19 a les 5:11, Ajay Tripuramallu ha escrit:
> Respected sir,
> This is AjayTripuramallu,  studying under graduation 3rd year in K L
> university. I am aware of all the technical stack that you have
> mentioned in your requirements. I wish to work with you, in the google
> summer of code i hope you take my request into consideration
> Thanks and regards,
> *Tripuramallu Ajay* .
>
> *Ajay Tripuramallu*
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Requesting for work in google summer of Code

[Ajay Tripuramallu]

Respected sir,
This is AjayTripuramallu,  studying under graduation 3rd year in K L
university. I am aware of all the technical stack that you have mentioned
in your requirements. I wish to work with you, in the google summer of code
i hope you take my request into consideration
Thanks and regards,
*Tripuramallu Ajay* .

*Ajay Tripuramallu*
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Re: Google summer of code project discussion

[Jan-Marek Glogowski]

Hi Himanshu

Am 24.10.2018 um 09:19 schrieb Patel, Himanshu:
> Is your organization participation in GSOC19?
As Tor already wrote you're way too early.

But have a look at the 2018 GSoC page in our wiki
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/2018 to see our 
application requirements, which
will very likely be the same for 2019.

HTH

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Re: Google summer of code project discussion

[Tor Lillqvist]

>
>
> Is your organization participation in GSOC19?
>

GSOC 2019 has not even been announced yet. Even less has any organisation
applied to participate.

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Re: Google Summer of Code '18

[Heiko Tietze]

Hi Nick,

welcome to LibreOffice and great to see your interest in this topic. Please 
submit a proposal at the official GSoC page. I suggest to use a certain number 
of solved paper cuts for the milestones. In particular we want to check the 
progress at the first evaluation.

Cheers,
Heiko

On 24.03.2018 21:02, Nick Thanda wrote:
> Hi,
> My name is Nickson Thanda and I'm a final year student at Queen Mary, 
> University of London studying Computer Science.
> 
> I'm interested in applying for the 100 project cuts projects that . I'm 
> currently working on of the issues. (tdf#113925) and I have a submitted a 
> patch to gerrit which is waiting to be reviewed ( 
> https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/51470/)
> 
> Thanks,
> Nickson



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[Nick Thanda]

Hi,
My name is Nickson Thanda and I'm a final year student at Queen Mary, 
University of London studying Computer Science.

I'm interested in applying for the 100 project cuts projects that . I'm 
currently working on of the issues. (tdf#113925) and I have a submitted a patch 
to gerrit which is waiting to be reviewed ( 
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/51470/)

Thanks,
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Help - Google Summer of code.

[Kawaljeet Singh]

Sir I wants to work on *Android project* for *LibreOffice Android
Application* but I can't see any mail or any Contact information to send
the *proposal for Gsoc.*

Can you help me out ?



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Question About Google Summer of Code 2018

[杨靖]

Dear mentors,

I'm a senior student from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, and
really want to participate into the Google Summer of Code 2018 this year. I
used LibreOffice for a long time, and I want to do some contribution.

Could you please tell me some of the information about the program?

Sincerely!

Jing Yang
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Re: Google Summer of Code 2018

[Markus Mohrhard]

Hey,

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 9:52 PM, Rushabh Kapadia 
wrote:

> Hi,
>  I am a computer science student at VJTI, Mumbai and I am interested
> in applying for GSOC 2018.
>  I went through the organisations and the projects that were submitted
> last year and found the projects submitted by your organisation appealing.
>  Just wanted to enquire whether you would be participating this year
> as well and if yes, then what would be the projects for this year.
>   Thank you for your time and please let me know if LibreOffice is
> planning to participate this year.
>

First note that GSoC organization selection has not been completed and that
organization announcement is only in mid of February. However this should
not stop you getting involved as starting early usually leads to better
proposals and better chances of showing your skills through Easy Hacks.

Our project ideas list can be found at
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas and some general
information about GSoC at LibreOffice at
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC. (Note that only the
organization application info have been updated for 2018 yet).

You should start by cloning LibreOffice and building the first time. After
that start with an Easy Hack in an area that looks interesting to you.

Regards,
Markus
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Google Summer of Code 2018

[Rushabh Kapadia]

Hi,
 I am a computer science student at VJTI, Mumbai and I am interested in
applying for GSOC 2018.
 I went through the organisations and the projects that were submitted
last year and found the projects submitted by your organisation appealing.
 Just wanted to enquire whether you would be participating this year as
well and if yes, then what would be the projects for this year.
  Thank you for your time and please let me know if LibreOffice is
planning to participate this year.

Warm regards,
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Re: Regarding Google Summer of Code'18

[Heiko Tietze]

Hi Aditya,

welcome to the LibreOffice project! We will try to make it your second home.

We have a couple of wiki pages around how to Get Involved [1]. Typically the 
first hurdle is to setup the environment, esp. under Windows. Feel free to ask 
at the various communication channels such as the developer's mailing list [2] 
(this one) or even better on IRC. 
We also have some information about GSoC on our wiki. As you said we expect you 
to prove your coding expertise first. To make the start easy we tag some issues 
in our bugtracker as 'easy hacks' [5]. Have a look what topic you like and fix 
it. Depending on your interests it makes sense to find a future mentor and let 
him review your patches. Ask on IRC who could be the right person.

If you need help to find out what's your interests are, ask me around UI/UX.

Howsoever, you should primarily have fun being part of a project with millions 
of happy users.

Cheers,
Heiko (UX mentor)

[1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GetInvolved
[2] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
[3] https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.freenode.net/#libreoffice-dev
[4] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC
[5] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/EasyHacks

On 24.10.2017 15:30, Aditya Sahu wrote:
> Sir/Ma'am,
> This is in reference to GSOC'18.
> First, a little about me:
> I am a second year computer science 
> engineering student from India. I have programming experience of 3 years in 
> C++ and C.
> I have not yet started to contribute to any Free and open source software 
> till the date. But I'm looking forward to do so.
> I've been using LibreOffice open source softwares like writer, impress and 
> many more for a long time and now I want to contribute towards an open source 
> project, but before that I'd want to know a few things which are probably not 
> mentioned in Libre's wiki page and other links since I want to enter GSOC'18 
> and also to make real use  of my programming skills. So here are my queries:
> 1.As far as I know, there are various ways in which a user can contribute to 
> FOSS. One being bug finding, another being providing working codes, 
> suggestion for enhancements, etc.
> In order to get into GSOC, which type of contribution should I make more? 
> 2. How many projects should I contribute to to get selected in GSOC?
> 3. If I make contributions to a project and it gets pulled into master, who 
> would know that I did it? I mean will there be any proof of my successful 
> contributions so that I can add it to my CV or something like that.
> 4. What is the magnitude of projects that I have to contribute? One, two, 
> three or more? 
> 5. Do I need to create a project on behalf of LibreOffice before I apply for 
> the program? Or do I have to do it alone..
> -
> 
> That's all I had in mind. I apologize if I've asked a query whose answer is 
> already mentioned on your website.. 
> I hope you answer to the queries; really important for career :-)
> Thanks!
> 
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[Aditya Sahu]

Sir/Ma'am,
This is in reference to GSOC'18.
First, a little about me:
I am a second year computer science
engineering student from India. I have programming experience of 3 years in
C++ and C.
I have not yet started to contribute to any Free and open source software
till the date. But I'm looking forward to do so.
I've been using LibreOffice open source softwares like writer, impress and
many more for a long time and now I want to contribute towards an open
source project, but before that I'd want to know a few things which are
probably not mentioned in Libre's wiki page and other links since I want to
enter GSOC'18 and also to make real use  of my programming skills. So here
are my queries:
1.As far as I know, there are various ways in which a user can contribute
to FOSS. One being bug finding, another being providing working codes,
suggestion for enhancements, etc.
In order to get into GSOC, which type of contribution should I make more?
2. How many projects should I contribute to to get selected in GSOC?
3. If I make contributions to a project and it gets pulled into master, who
would know that I did it? I mean will there be any proof of my successful
contributions so that I can add it to my CV or something like that.
4. What is the magnitude of projects that I have to contribute? One, two,
three or more?
5. Do I need to create a project on behalf of LibreOffice before I apply
for the program? Or do I have to do it alone..
-

That's all I had in mind. I apologize if I've asked a query whose answer is
already mentioned on your website..
I hope you answer to the queries; really important for career :-)
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Re: Google Summer of Code 2017 - Some help needed

[Caolán McNamara]

On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 12:58 -0300, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> On 04/28/2017 05:59 AM, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> > The main question for me is what format/mechanism is provided by
> > the user of the backend as the print transport

> The backends simply need the PDF to be printed and the key/value-
> pair list of the option settings, nothing more. So integration should
> be easy.

That makes things easier.

> So as the backends will simply take the job in PDF and spreadsheet 
> printing support is too complex to get into external print dialogs,
> let us go the way of making LO's original print dialog ready for the
> backends.
> 
> The dialog will have to look up the available backends and then do

So, I would expect that the actual dialog won't need to be changed at
all. We have a PrinterInfoManager for unix which I think is the best
place to start and try to integrate this. There is one class
CUPSManager that inherits from this for "cups" I suggest adding another
for whatever this is called and there the implementation to get the
list of printers and printer properties can be added following the
existing cups implementation.

> 4. If LO provides some kind of job monitoring, use the backend's
> list jobs functions (does LO do a thing like that?)

I don't think we do, its just fire and forget I think, i.e. we call
cupsPrintFile and hope for the best.

One thing that might turn into a problem is getting the list of
available printers. IIRC for cups we start a thread to collect the list
of printers fairly early in the process and it can get a little
complicated. Nothing too serious to worry about at the start, just keep
it simple and collect freshly the list of printers when requested to
get up and running, but maybe something to consider once basic
functionality is working.

> What I need from you is help in mentoring the student or even
> someone fully mentoring the student (this would be the best). Google
> says that mentoring a student will take around 5 hours/week.
> 
> I also need help where to find the relevant code to modify (ideally
> so that it can make it into Ubuntu 17.10 with Feature Freeze mid-
> August), how to most efficiently test-build (not needing to build the
> whole LO after each little change), coding policy guidelines, how to
> provide patches for upstream inclusion, ...

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/gerrit Aveek should
follow the setup there to get registered in gerrit and patches can be
submitted there. gerrit builds the patches and typically the various
clang plugins active will flag code policy gotchas. Should really only
need to get libreoffice built fully once, at that point there's
probably no need to keep up to date with head, so once the full thing
is built and modifications are made in vcl, incremental builds of make
vcl.build will be sufficient and the in-tree ./instdir/program/soffice
will "just work"

I won't commit to being a full time mentor, but I can help and be the
LibreOffice contact. So you can put me on CC on anything submitted to
gerrit and I'll help get things bootstrapped and working. I'm on
freenode irc most work days for anything that may arise.

I've outlined the relevant classes above, so I'd suggest, get
libreoffice built once, copy the CUPSManager class and add trying this
new backend before falling back to the cups one, stub out the new
implementations methods and make sure its getting called and fill out
the stubs with the new backend.
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Re: Google Summer of Code 2017 - Some help needed

[Till Kamppeter]

On 04/28/2017 01:09 PM, Heiko Tietze wrote:

What a shame ;-). No idea why this didn't work, it's just an etherpad.
Perhaps the server was down for a moment. Could you please try again.


Tried it again and now it is working. Thanks.

   Till


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Re: Google Summer of Code 2017 - Some help needed

[Heiko Tietze]

What a shame ;-). No idea why this didn't work, it's just an etherpad.
Perhaps the server was down for a moment. Could you please try again.

On 04/28/17 18:04, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> On 04/28/2017 05:26 AM, Heiko Tietze wrote:
>> That's really great news (and a very ambitious project). If you consider
>> to also touch the frontend please have a look on what the UX team did
>> some time ago https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/UX-PrintDialog. Feel
>> free to ask in case of usability related questions. The design team will
>> happy to be of service.
>
> Thanks for the link, but I cannot access it, not even read-only. It
> seems to be private.
>
> Does a free software project like LibreOffice have trade secrets?
>
>Till
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Re: Google Summer of Code 2017 - Some help needed

[Till Kamppeter]

On 04/28/2017 05:26 AM, Heiko Tietze wrote:

That's really great news (and a very ambitious project). If you consider
to also touch the frontend please have a look on what the UX team did
some time ago https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/UX-PrintDialog. Feel
free to ask in case of usability related questions. The design team will
happy to be of service.


Thanks for the link, but I cannot access it, not even read-only. It 
seems to be private.


Does a free software project like LibreOffice have trade secrets?

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Re: Google Summer of Code 2017 - Some help needed

[Till Kamppeter]

On 04/28/2017 05:59 AM, Caolán McNamara wrote:

The main question for me is what format/mechanism is provided by the
user of the backend as the print transport format/mechanism, e.g. if
it's simply (like cups) "give me the pdf to print" then it's relatively
easy. If it's (like GtkPrintOperation) "here's a cairo context, render
onto it what you want printed", then its not easy.



The backends simply need the PDF to be printed and the key/value-pair 
list of the option settings, nothing more. So integration should be easy.



- Would it be a good idea to modify the inner workings (not the GUI)
of the LibreOffice print dialog to talk to the printing
system(s)/printer(s) through a modular backend so that easily new
print technologies can be added or changes for the existing ones
being supplied?


Assuming that we can just supply a final pdf to the print backend then
this sounds sensible to me. Relatively not difficult to add new
parallel support for retrieving printer lists and printer info and
sending print jobs alongside our existing ones.



So as the backends will simply take the job in PDF and spreadsheet 
printing support is too complex to get into external print dialogs, let 
us go the way of making LO's original print dialog ready for the backends.


The dialog will have to look up the available backends and then do

1. On each dialog call the function to list the available printers, then 
show the list of all printers found via ll backends.


2. If the user chooses a printer to display its options (or get any 
detailed properties of it) call the function to query properties and 
options of the backend the printer comes from.


3. If the user sends off the job for printing, call the send-job 
function of the backend the printer comes from. Supply the print job in 
PDF and the option settings as key/value pairs.


4. If LO provides some kind of job monitoring, use the backend's list 
jobs functions (does LO do a thing like that?)


What I need from you is help in mentoring the student or even someone 
fully mentoring the student (this would be the best). Google says that 
mentoring a student will take around 5 hours/week.


I also need help where to find the relevant code to modify (ideally so 
that it can make it into Ubuntu 17.10 with Feature Freeze mid-August), 
how to most efficiently test-build (not needing to build the whole LO 
after each little change), coding policy guidelines, how to provide 
patches for upstream inclusion, ...


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Re: Google Summer of Code 2017 - Some help needed

[Caolán McNamara]

On Thu, 2017-04-27 at 18:45 -0300, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> 
> In the Google Summer of Code 2017 a big project of OpenPrinting will
> be work on the print dialog. What we especially want to do is:
> 
> - Common backends to all print dialogs (GTK, Qt, LibreOffice, ...):
> - Backend for local CUPS queues
> - Backend for IPP network printers
> - Backend for Google Cloud Print printers
> - In the future: Backends for new, upcoming print technologies
> (for example a cloud printing service based on PWG standards.

The main question for me is what format/mechanism is provided by the
user of the backend as the print transport format/mechanism, e.g. if
it's simply (like cups) "give me the pdf to print" then it's relatively
easy. If it's (like GtkPrintOperation) "here's a cairo context, render
onto it what you want printed", then its not easy.

> As talked about on the IRC LO allows also switching to the GTK
> dialog and there will also be a new GTK dialog which will get
> launched in around two years.

So IIRC we did a review in 2009 of the gtk print dialog, and then
another review in 2012 and its now 2017 and apparently there will be a
new dialog in around two years :-)

> The backend idea comes already from the new GTK dialog and we want
> to get it to life as soon as possible.
> 
> It is told that it is difficult to do Spreadsheet printing with the 
> usual print dialogs and therefore it could be better for LO to stay
> with its own dialog.

Well, I'd *like* to use the gtk print dialog personally. The
reoccurring  problem is typically spreadsheet printing. You can see in
our own dialog in calc that when printing the "range" is "range and
sheets" with selection of what sheets to print and the range from those
sheets. The gtk print dialog just offers what pages to print. Gnumeric
works around this in the standard gtk print dialog with putting a
custom "gnumeric print range tab" which is distant from the page range
to print. It's not a good fit.

Multiple pages per sheet is another problem, the gtk one is more
limited than the offerings of the LibreOffice one.

Providing a preview which updates as you change the selection or
options is another problem.

What it means to change the paper size/orientation in the printer
dialog when the application supports multiple paper sizes and
orientation in the document is an open question I suppose.

> So what I would like to know is the following:
> 
> - Would it be a good idea to modify the inner workings (not the GUI)
> of the LibreOffice print dialog to talk to the printing 
> system(s)/printer(s) through a modular backend so that easily new
> print technologies can be added or changes for the existing ones
> being supplied?

Assuming that we can just supply a final pdf to the print backend then
this sounds sensible to me. Relatively not difficult to add new
parallel support for retrieving printer lists and printer info and
sending print jobs alongside our existing ones.

> - Or is it no problem for Spreadsheet printing to use the current
> and/or the future GTK print dialog so that it is a better approach to
> let LO default to the GTK dialog?

If anyone has good ideas about how to make the existing gtk dialog not
a miserable experience for spreadsheet printing that'd be cool.
Otherwise I guess defaulting to the current GTK dialog is probably not
going to fly. Maybe the next one will solve all these problems.
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Re: Google Summer of Code 2017 - Some help needed

[Heiko Tietze]

On 04/27/17 23:45, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> I will mentor a student who will patch the LibreOffice print dialog > to take 
> the backends. This will not change the appearance and GUI of
> the dialog, but only the method to obtain printer and options lists >
and to send off print jobs.
That's really great news (and a very ambitious project). If you consider
to also touch the frontend please have a look on what the UX team did
some time ago https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/UX-PrintDialog. Feel
free to ask in case of usability related questions. The design team will
happy to be of service.

Cheers,
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Google Summer of Code 2017 - Some help needed

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

as Caolán McNamara told me after presenting my problem on the 
#libreoffice-dev channel on FreeNode (see log below) I am posting it here:


I am Till Kamppeter, leader of the OpenPrinting project and I am also 
the packager of the printing stack in Ubuntu.


In the Google Summer of Code 2017 a big project of OpenPrinting will be 
work on the print dialog. What we especially want to do is:


- Common backends to all print dialogs (GTK, Qt, LibreOffice, ...):
   - Backend for local CUPS queues
   - Backend for IPP network printers
   - Backend for Google Cloud Print printers
   - In the future: Backends for new, upcoming print technologies (for
 example a cloud printing service based on PWG standards.
- Create a decent, feature-complete Qt print dialog which supports
  above-mentioned backends, for Qt upstream.
- Create patches for the current GTK print dialog to take the new
  backends, so that distros do not have to wait for these backends
  until the new GTK dialog gets released in 2 years.
- Create patches for the LibreOffice print dialog to take trhe new
  backends.

This way we want to assure that users get access to all printers and all 
print options from any desktop application, and that also if current 
print technologies (like CUPS) get changes or if new technologies will 
appear in the future. In such a case one only would need to modify or 
add a backend.


All this is meant to be contributed to the appropriate upstream projects 
so that all Linux distributions will get improved by this.


I will mentor a student who will patch the LibreOffice print dialog to 
take the backends. This will not change the appearance and GUI of the 
dialog, but only the method to obtain printer and options lists and to 
send off print jobs.


As talked about on the IRC LO allows also switching to the GTK dialog 
and there will also be a new GTK dialog which will get launched in 
around two years.


The backend idea comes already from the new GTK dialog and we want to 
get it to life as soon as possible.


It is told that it is difficult to do Spreadsheet printing with the 
usual print dialogs and therefore it could be better for LO to stay with 
its own dialog.


So what I would like to know is the following:

- Would it be a good idea to modify the inner workings (not the GUI) of 
the LibreOffice print dialog to talk to the printing 
system(s)/printer(s) through a modular backend so that easily new peint 
technologies can be added or changes for the existing ones being supplied?


- Or is it no problem for Spreadsheet printing to use the current and/or 
the future GTK print dialog so that it is a better approach to let LO 
default to the GTK dialog?


- Would someone of you help me to mentor the student who will modify the 
LO dialog and also help me and the student to get started with 
contributing to LO?


Thanks a lot already in advance.

   Till

--



 Hi, I am Till Kamppeter from OpenPrinting (also Ubuntu 
packager for printing stack).

* JohnW71 has quit (Quit: Leaving)
 I am doing a project of improving the print dialogs in this 
year's Google Summer of Code.
 LibreOffice (core) Thorsten.Behrens * sw/source/core/undo/ 
(unattr.cxx unfmco.cxx): tdf#88555: band-aid fix, using GetPos/find 
instead of Contains
 The intention is to have common backends for all dialogs 
(GTK, Qt, LibreOffice), one for CUPS queues, one for IPP printers, one 
for Google Cloud Print ...
 This way one can easily apply changes in CUPS or add new print 
technologies and services.
 One student is supposed to do the needed modifications on LO's print 
dialog.
 I would need someone who helps me mentoring him and to help to get the 
result upstream into LO.

 tkamppeter: who's gsoc project is that ?
 The mentoring org is the Linux Foundation where 
OpenPrinting is a part of. I am org admin for the LF.
 And the main part of OpenPrinting's GSoC activity this year is the 
work on the print dialogs, we have 6 students on that.
 tkamppeter: FWIW, if you use tools->options->advanced and 
toggle on "experimental features", then tools options->general will 
offer the option to turn off "use LibreOffice Dialog" for printing, in 
which case the gtk print dialog will stumble to life
 there was a time when I wrote some class of a "if the gtk 
dialog had this that and this" it would make life a lot easier to use, 
then there was talk of a new gtk print dialog and then it never happened
 Yes, I know this tric, and probably it can turn standard 
when GTK's new dialog comes to life.
 anyhow, late here. I suggest mailing our dev list and I can try 
and dig out what I wrote the last time
 GTK/GNOME is working on a new dialog currently, landing in 
more or less two years.
 erAck: oy... it's a regression from some alg commits where he 
hooked up the application undo managers in 
SdrObjEditView::SdrBeginTextEdit() ... this looks quite scary, calc has 
it implemented too apparently

 yeah, well,

Re: Application to Google Summer of Code

[Jaskaran Singh]

Hi Alex,

Great to see you working towards your application!

Ideally, you have to talk with Mentors about your proposal either on the
mailing list or on the IRC channel. This has to happen before you submit
your proposal finally. Discussing your proposal with them would make it
better.

For the "prove yourself" part, you have to submit at least one patch
that would prove us that you know how to code and can build libreoffice.
You can select any(related to the component you're aiming for in GSoC)
"easy hack" from that link given on that page. Better if you can do this
before April 3 but don't worry you can still do it after the deadline.
There used to be a deadline for submitting easy hacks that was beyond
the deadline for GSoC application but can't find it anywhere this year.
But yeah, try to do it ASAP.


Regards,
-- 
Jaskaran Veer Singh (jvsg)
jvsg1303 at gmail dot com
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Application to Google Summer of Code

[Hoffer, Alex Daniel]

Hi,

I have submitted the link to my draft proposal "Revamping the Customization
dialog for LibreOffice" via the Google SoC interface. However, I have
consulted the link you provided "How to Apply" and am wondering about these
two components of my application: "Present yourself" and "Prove that you
want to get involved". Do these have to be done BEFORE April 3?

Thanks,
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Re: Applying as a participant in Google Summer of code

[jan iversen]

Adding our mailing list. Please write questions like this to our mailing list, 
so that others can follow the conversation.
> Thank you soo much for your response 
> i need a little more assistance from you
> 
> i have made an account on Bugzilla but there are some confusion tell me the 
> procedure of selecting a bug when i want to search a bugs  this screen came 
> out further more i want to select java language bugs and set the level of 
> bugs to beginner tell me how to do so
> 

Well read the getInvolved page I gave you, it gives you prepared links to bugs 
in different programming languages.

rgds
jan i

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Re: Applying as a participant in Google Summer of code

[Jan Iversen]

Welcome.

you might want to take a look at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/2016#How_to_apply 


In order to apply successfully you need to have solved at least one non-trivial 
easyhack. We have made a step by step guide, helping you to build LibreOffice 
and get your first patch merged:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GetInvolved 


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Re: Applying as a participant in Google Summer of code

[Shoaib Noor]

https://github.com/shoaibnoor95/Google_Summer_of_code/tree/master/collection-for-google/Google_Summer_of_code
I have just updated my github account for the competition you can ask about any 
concept/application included in my repository
Regards
Shoaib Noor


From: Shoaib Noor
Sent: Friday, March 3, 2017 7:58:42 PM
To: libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Applying as a participant in Google Summer of code


Dear All concern

Hope you are best of health
With due respect i am stating that i want to apply for the Google Summers of 
Code. I am a citizen of Pakistan and a student of BS(CS) in Iqra University 
besides it i am also learning Certified Mobile Application development and Full 
stack web development from a local organization which is affiliated from 
Microsoft and many other organization. I have good programming

skills in java currently making a professional restaurant management system in 
java and learning ASP.net and react.
I want to apply for the gsoc as a part of your organization and it is very kind 
of you if you suggest any project keeping in view the above mentioned expertise 
as per my point of view i might be good for the Libre office for android 
because i have the knowledge on both Java and C++ (console based).
Best Regards:

Shoaib Noor

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Applying as a participant in Google Summer of code

[Shoaib Noor]

Dear All concern

Hope you are best of health
With due respect i am stating that i want to apply for the Google Summers of 
Code. I am a citizen of Pakistan and a student of BS(CS) in Iqra University 
besides it i am also learning Certified Mobile Application development and Full 
stack web development from a local organization which is affiliated from 
Microsoft and many other organization. I have good programming

skills in java currently making a professional restaurant management system in 
java and learning ASP.net and react.
I want to apply for the gsoc as a part of your organization and it is very kind 
of you if you suggest any project keeping in view the above mentioned expertise 
as per my point of view i might be good for the Libre office for android 
because i have the knowledge on both Java and C++ (console based).
Best Regards:

Shoaib Noor

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Re: Google summer of code Question

[Jan Iversen]

> On 28 Feb 2017, at 22:04, naoufalda...@gmail.com  wrote:
> 
> HIi ! 
> 
> I want to submit an application for LibreOffice Project, where should i do 
> that?
> 
> what do you mean by "non-trivial easyHack" ? 
read the links I gave you.

rgds
jan I.

> 
> THanks !
> 
> sinc. Naoufal Dahouli 
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Google summer of code Question

[naoufalda...@gmail.com]

HIi !

I want to submit an application for LibreOffice Project, where should i do
that?

what do you mean by "non-trivial easyHack" ?

THanks !

sinc. Naoufal Dahouli
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Re: Google Summer of Code

[Jan Iversen]

> On 2 Mar 2017, at 12:37, Arthur Ngoussong  wrote:
> 
> Hello, I am a young Cameroonian student in the Catholic University Institute 
> of Buea in the school of IT, department of software engineering. I am 
> passionate about computer programming and would be very glad to discuss about 
> the LibreOffice project, so we could work together since I am very interested.
> Thanks for your good comprehension. 

Welcome, have a look at our GSoC page 
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC 


In order to qualify for GSoC in LibreOffice, you need to have solved at least 
one non-trivial easyhack (so we know how you program). You can find our guide 
to build libre office and solve easyhack here:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GetInvolved 


Looking forward to see your patches.
rgds
jan I.

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Google Summer of Code

[Arthur Ngoussong]

Hello, I am a young Cameroonian student in the Catholic University
Institute of Buea in the school of IT, department of software engineering.
I am passionate about computer programming and would be very glad to
discuss about the LibreOffice project, so we could work together since I am
very interested.
Thanks for your good comprehension.
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Re: Regarding mailing list for GSOC(Google summer of code 2016)

[jan iversen]

Hi

If you mean subscribe to this mailing list, the easiest way is to follow the 
https: link below.

As for discussions, that should be done with your potential mentor, remark 
there are less than 8 hours left to discuss.

rgds
jan i.


> On 23 Mar 2016, at 13:14, Mohit Kumra  wrote:
> 
> Respected sir,
> 
> I would like to subscribe for libre office for carrying on the discuissions 
> for the GSOC 2016
> 
> 
> Reagrds 
> MOHIT KUMRA
> mohitkumr...@gmail.com
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Regarding mailing list for GSOC(Google summer of code 2016)

[Mohit Kumra]

Respected sir,

I would like to subscribe for libre office for carrying on the discuissions
for the GSOC 2016


Reagrds
MOHIT KUMRA
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Re: Google Summer of Code '15 student

[Miklos Vajna]

Hi,

Please make sure that you read
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/2015#How_to_apply.

Completing a non-trivial easy hack is a hard requirement. Also, if you
would like to came up with your own project idea, you need to make sure
that someone is willing to mentor that. If you choose an idea from the
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas page, then
mentors are already available for those tasks.

Regards,

Miklos


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Google Summer of Code '15 student

[Andrei - Constantin Popescu]

Hello!

Quick info

Full name : Andrei - Constantin Popescu
IRC Handle: andrei_ / andrei__
Studies: Graduated Bsc in Computer Science at Polytechnic Univ. of
Bucharest/
  will start Master's at Vrije University of Amsterdam.
Github: https://github.com/pandrei


*Background *

First of all, thanks for helping me out on IRC on making an initial
decision.  I'll try to divide my introduction mail into three main parts:
my background, why LibreOffice and why these projects at LibreOffice.

I usually go by Andrei,  I got my Bsc. in Computer science at Polytechnic
University of Bucharest, in 2014. I will be starting a Master's degree in
Computer Sicence at Vrije University of Amsterdam this fall. So far, I've
participated in two GSoC's (2012 and 2014) and I've been three times a
Google Code-in mentor [2012-2014]. All of these at BRL-CAD. You can find my
development logs here http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Popescu.andrei1991 . I
can say I am familiar with open source and I see certain benefits to it.

Between the first and second GSoC, I have been a Linux kernel developer
intern at Freescale. The main reason I switched from C to C++ was that I
consider OOP more expressive, more natural. I enjoy much more designing the
flow of an OOP application, even if it's more difficult. Another reason was
that kernel development was too static for me. As you can see, the second
GSoC involved extending a geometric kernel, so I worked with C++ in CAD
area. It's not relevant, but here
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9zgki85xmy6w02f/Popescu_Andrei_proposal_latest.pdf?dl=0
you can find my detailed proposal. After that, I took a job(which I
currently have) developing VoIP apps in C++ on a real time system. It's
interesting how much of a difference it is between the C++ code.

*Why LibreOffice?*

Why LibreOffice? That's a pretty good question. And I'll be upfront.  I did
not start looking for a project on this GSoC having the fixed LibreOffice
org in mind, I was just looking for a C++ project. Why? Because there are
plenty orgs, with plenty projects and it's easy to overlook one. On short,
I landed on your project page more or less randomly.

But I stayed. And here's why. I've been a Linux guy for the last 5 years. I
realized that I use LibreOffice daily since i gave up my Windows VM and
it's doing a great job, it has't crashed, nobody has complained about my
documents, even if I save them in .docx. On short, it works!

Another reason I stayed was that there were quite a few projects that
seemed interesting to me, that I would see myself working on throughout
summer, that I would enjoy seeing rolled out into it. But this posed quite
a problem, and I've been asking people on IRC without giving them too much
info, which leads us to last part.

*Why these ideas at LibreOffice?*

1. Reuse Mozilla's rolling update mechanism for LibreOffice
 I would make this project my main focus for two reasons. First, it
might sound silly but automating tasks in user experience is, in my humble
opinion, hot. Something that users want and appreciate. I would
appreciate that in an application. It's smart.
 Secondly, I believe it represents the open source ideals in a
practical way. This project would benefit from already written open source
while further providing a free feature,  an extension based on what's
already been done.
2. Add Impress shape animations that use a real physics engine
   I overlooked this one, but it came as a suggestion from a community
member who's nickname I forgot( I think it was bubli as an IRC handle?
Sorry!) . It seems as a continuation towards CAD background but it's worth
pointing out that I'm not a CAD expert. I enjoyed writting code and
mentoring for BRL-CAD simply because of the difficulty involved.

If I am to go with one of these projects, I will go with which is more
useful for the LibreOffice community, I'm quite even on them.

Currently, I'm looking over getting involved
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GetInvolved and I'll be
around on IRC quite a lot, but I'll get in touch more once I got the code
base cloned and start working on something. If you have any feedback or
criticism, please do, it's appreciated!


Sorry for the long-ish mail!

Regards,
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Google Summer of Code 2014

[Mihály Palenik]

Hello,
I would like to work for LibreOffice this Google Summer of Code on Dialog
Widget Conversion. I submitted a proposal.

Regards,

Mihály Palenik (IRC:freetank)
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Google Summer of Code 2014

[Khánh Trịnh]

Hi,
I want to work for LibreOffice this GSoC on Refactor god objects.
I submitted a proposal.
Thanks!

Cheers,
TRINH Ngoc Khanh
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Google Summer of Code 2014

[Fridrich Strba]

Friends,

Just to keep you updated that the organization applications for the
Google Summer of Code 2014 will start the Monday after FOSDEM[1]. We
volunteer with Cedric to administer it this year too. But we would need
your help to update the ideas page with whatever idea you might have and
clean out the ideas that were finished in the previous cycle.

We will update the wiki little by little with the important dates.

Cheers

Fridrich

[1]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2014/help_page#2._What_is_the_program_timeline
[2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas
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Re: Google Summer of Code 2014

[Tommy]

On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:05:12 +0100, Fridrich Strba  
fridrich.st...@graduateinstitute.ch wrote:



Friends,

Just to keep you updated that the organization applications for the
Google Summer of Code 2014 will start the Monday after FOSDEM[1].



Cheers

Fridrich

[1]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2014/help_page#2._What_is_the_program_timeline
[2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas


is there a page with the list of previous GSoC completed tasks by year?

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Re: Google Summer of Code 2014

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

Hi Tommy,

On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 13:30 +0100, Tommy wrote:
 On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:05:12 +0100, Fridrich Strba  
 fridrich.st...@graduateinstitute.ch wrote:
 
  Friends,
 
  Just to keep you updated that the organization applications for the
  Google Summer of Code 2014 will start the Monday after FOSDEM[1].
 
  
 
  Cheers
 
  Fridrich
 
  [1]
  http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2014/help_page#2._What_is_the_program_timeline
  [2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas
 
 is there a page with the list of previous GSoC completed tasks by year?

Not really, you would need to dig in the blog posts from Fridrich,
Thorsten and myself to find out the wrap up posts.

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Collaborative UML Tool for Google Summer of Code: Flower Dev Center

[Gabriela Popa]

Hello GSoC Mentors,

As you are participating to Google Summer of Code, I'm wondering if you 
could consider using Flower Dev Center [1] while working with students.


Flower Dev Center is an online platform for UML modeling diagramming, 
with a strong focus on code synchronization, integration with dev tools 
(Git, SVN, etc) and real time collaboration on diagrams (and a little 
bit on code as well).


We think Flower Dev Center can be helpful for both: mentors and students 
during Google Summer of Code. We have created an article on this topic 
(i.e. Flower Dev Center + GSoC): [2], [3].


If you have a couple of spare minutes, could you tell us if you would 
like to use Flower Dev Center? And/or raise topics that you think are 
important (based on previous GSoC participations) to be supported by 
Flower Dev Center?


REMARK1: The next version of Flower Dev Center, the 2.0.0 planned for 
June/July 2013, has major new features, that we did not demonstrate yet 
and that will improve even more the collaboration between developers.


REMARK2: Flower Dev Center doesn't currently support C++ and Python 
programming languages. But if you are interested in using Flower Dev 
Center, we'll prioritize their implementation and we'll work hard to do 
it ASAP, with Flower Dev Center 2.0.0.


REMARK3: Flower Dev Center will support programming languages that are 
not object oriented, starting with 2.0.0


Thank you in advance!

Best regards,
Gabriela @ Flower Platform Team.

[1] - Flower Dev Center web site - http://www.flower-platform.com
[2] - Video “Flower Dev Center + Google Summer of Code” - 
http://learn-discuss.flower-platform.com/flower_dev_center/videos/flower_dev_center_and_google_summer_of_code_2013_the_video
[3] - Text version with same content as the above video - 
http://learn-discuss.flower-platform.com/flower_dev_center/tutorials/flower_dev_center_and_google_summer_of_code_2013


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Google Summer of Code 2013

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

Hello people,

I just wanted to share a good news with you: LibreOffice has been
selected to participate in GSoC 2013!

Next steps for us:
  * Before May 24th, mentors needs to register on http://www.google-melange.com
  * Students application period runs from April 22nd to May 3rd.

Happy mentoring and hacking

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Re: Google Summer of Code

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

Hello

On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 19:28 +0530, Pratyush Nalam wrote:
 As described in that link, I ran sudo apt-get build-dep libreoffice.
 The problem is it started installing openjdk and those set of
 packages. However, I already have Oracle Java installed as per this
 link http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Oracle-Java-on-Ubuntu-Linux . How
 to build libreoffice without openjdk as I already have a working
 installation of Java (both JDK and JRE 7u17)

Then you'll need to skip the 'apt-get build-dep libreoffice' step that
will install all the build dependencies of the system libreoffice
package and install them all manually. For that, just run autogen.sh and
install the packages when it complains ;)

Of course you can install all the packages (but the openjdk ones) the
build-dep wanted to install for you.

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Re: Google Summer of Code

[Pratyush Nalam]

Thanks! I'll try that

Pratyush Nalam
Technology. Environment. Inclusive Society.
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~pratnala


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Cedric Bosdonnat cbosdon...@suse.comwrote:

 Hello

 On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 19:28 +0530, Pratyush Nalam wrote:
  As described in that link, I ran sudo apt-get build-dep libreoffice.
  The problem is it started installing openjdk and those set of
  packages. However, I already have Oracle Java installed as per this
  link http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Oracle-Java-on-Ubuntu-Linux . How
  to build libreoffice without openjdk as I already have a working
  installation of Java (both JDK and JRE 7u17)

 Then you'll need to skip the 'apt-get build-dep libreoffice' step that
 will install all the build dependencies of the system libreoffice
 package and install them all manually. For that, just run autogen.sh and
 install the packages when it complains ;)

 Of course you can install all the packages (but the openjdk ones) the
 build-dep wanted to install for you.

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Re: Google Summer of Code

[Pratyush Nalam]

Hi

I was trying to clone the git repo and I was met with this

Cloning into 'libreoffice'...
fatal: unable to connect to anongit.freedesktop.org:
anongit.freedesktop.org[0: 131.252.210.161]: errno=Connection timed out

Doesn't it work behind a HTTP proxy? All my environment variables are fine
(even the git config variables are fine)


Pratyush Nalam
Technology. Environment. Inclusive Society.
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~pratnala


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Pratyush Nalam pratyushnala...@gmail.comwrote:

 Thanks! I'll try that

 Pratyush Nalam
 Technology. Environment. Inclusive Society.
 http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~pratnala


 On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Cedric Bosdonnat cbosdon...@suse.comwrote:

 Hello

 On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 19:28 +0530, Pratyush Nalam wrote:
  As described in that link, I ran sudo apt-get build-dep libreoffice.
  The problem is it started installing openjdk and those set of
  packages. However, I already have Oracle Java installed as per this
  link http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Oracle-Java-on-Ubuntu-Linux . How
  to build libreoffice without openjdk as I already have a working
  installation of Java (both JDK and JRE 7u17)

 Then you'll need to skip the 'apt-get build-dep libreoffice' step that
 will install all the build dependencies of the system libreoffice
 package and install them all manually. For that, just run autogen.sh and
 install the packages when it complains ;)

 Of course you can install all the packages (but the openjdk ones) the
 build-dep wanted to install for you.

 --
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Re: Google Summer of Code

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 16:39 +0530, Pratyush Nalam wrote:
 Doesn't it work behind a HTTP proxy? All my environment variables are
 fine (even the git config variables are fine)

Did you try cloning with this URL (mind it's not git://)?
http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/libreoffice/core.git


Regards,

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Re: Google Summer of Code

[Pratyush Nalam]

Yeah this worked. Thanks to Noel!

Pratyush Nalam
Technology. Environment. Inclusive Society.
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~pratnala


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Cedric Bosdonnat cbosdon...@suse.comwrote:

 On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 16:39 +0530, Pratyush Nalam wrote:
  Doesn't it work behind a HTTP proxy? All my environment variables are
  fine (even the git config variables are fine)

 Did you try cloning with this URL (mind it's not git://)?
 http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/libreoffice/core.git


 Regards,

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Re: Google Summer of Code

[Pratyush Nalam]

Hi

As described in that link, I ran sudo apt-get build-dep libreoffice. The
problem is it started installing openjdk and those set of packages.
However, I already have Oracle Java installed as per this link
http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Oracle-Java-on-Ubuntu-Linux . How to build
libreoffice without openjdk as I already have a working installation of
Java (both JDK and JRE 7u17)

Thanks,

Pratyush Nalam
Technology. Environment. Inclusive Society.
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~pratnala


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Markus Mohrhard 
markus.mohrh...@googlemail.com wrote:

 Hey,


 2013/3/31 Pratyush Nalam pratyushna...@outlook.com

 Hi

 ** **

 I am Pratyush Nalam, an undergraduate sophomore from IIT Bombay, India. I
 want to participate in Google Summer of Code with LibreOffice and I was
 going through the FAQs and the wiki. Stupid as this may sound, I didn’t
 find anywhere how to get a copy of the code so that I can start on one of
 the Easy Hacks tasks. I will be glad if someone can help me out in this
 regard.

 ** **


 You should find all the important steps how to build at
 https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Native_Build

 If you still have problems building feel free to ask for more details

 Regards,
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Google Summer of Code

[Pratyush Nalam]

Hi
 
I am Pratyush Nalam, an undergraduate sophomore from IIT Bombay, India. I
want to participate in Google Summer of Code with LibreOffice and I was
going through the FAQs and the wiki. Stupid as this may sound, I didn't find
anywhere how to get a copy of the code so that I can start on one of the
Easy Hacks tasks. I will be glad if someone can help me out in this regard.
 
Regards,
Pratyush Nalam
Technology. Environment. Inclusive Society.
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~pratnala
 
 
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Re: Google Summer of Code

[Markus Mohrhard]

Hey,


2013/3/31 Pratyush Nalam pratyushna...@outlook.com

 Hi

 ** **

 I am Pratyush Nalam, an undergraduate sophomore from IIT Bombay, India. I
 want to participate in Google Summer of Code with LibreOffice and I was
 going through the FAQs and the wiki. Stupid as this may sound, I didn’t
 find anywhere how to get a copy of the code so that I can start on one of
 the Easy Hacks tasks. I will be glad if someone can help me out in this
 regard.

 ** **


You should find all the important steps how to build at
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Native_Build

If you still have problems building feel free to ask for more details

Regards,
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LibreOffice was accepted for Google Summer of Code 2012

[Fridrich Strba]

The title tells it all.

And may the applications start to fall like a refreshing rain.

For all interested students, accomplished Easy Hacks are a must for
being eligible and being involved already with the community is a big plus.

That is it for now ;)

Have a nice weekend

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Re: Google Summer of Code

[Michael Meeks]

Hi Giorik,

On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 16:02 +0200, Giorik Giorik wrote:
 I'm Thanasis from Greece and I study computer science in TEI of
 Athens.

Great to meet you :-)

 I want to participate in Google Summer of Code and I would like some
 help to get me started.

Sure - so, I would get a Linux machine installed, and get your first
build going - I'd start with an Easy Hack - in previous GSOC's a
requirement for getting considered was having submitted a patch to the
project first: so we can be sure people are familiar with and able to go
around the development loop. eg. removing an unused method from
unusedcode.easy and submitting a patch.

Getting start is fairly easy, you need to read:

http://www.libreoffice.org/developers-2/

And reading Julien's nice links would be a good tip too.

Hope that helps :-)

Michael.

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[Giorik Giorik]

Hello,

I'm Thanasis from Greece and I study computer science in TEI of Athens.
I want to participate in Google Summer of Code and I would like some help
to get me started.
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Re: Google Summer of Code

[julien2412]

Hi,

You must know that most of code is in C++. Some parts are in C, Python,
others in Java and there's even a few assembly. There's also some Perl.
LO project uses Git to manage sources so if you don't know it at all, you
can take a look here :
http://book.git-scm.com/

A good start would be to retrieve and compile sources. You'll find more
information here :
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Native_Build
Then you can dive into the code with this : http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/

Finally you should tell what would interest you : Calc, Writer, Impress,
Base ..., UI, extension, etc.

Julien

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Google Summer of Code 2012: time to be ready

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

Hi all,

GSoC 2012 edition has been announced a week ago at the same time than
FOSDEM. We now need to be ready to apply and host cool projects for cool
students and cool mentors.

For this I'll need your help!

What to do:
  * Clean up the ideas list from Gsoc/Ideas wiki page [0]. (See how to
pick up good ideas candidates below)
  * Add some cool ideas on Gsoc/Ideas wiki page [0].
  * Check the GSoc wiki page [1]: it contains a simplified timeline.

How to decide if a project idea is a good one:

  * Would you want to hack on it yourself? (Don't forget that a good
mentoring often requires the mentor to hack a bit with the student)

  * How much time would it reasonably require? (It needs to be doable in
a summer by someone that is not as used to the LibreOffice code as you.)

  * What makes my idea more appealing that the ideas of other projects?
(in the end, you want the idea to be interesting a student... so make it
look a great one)

  * Can you find easily measurable objectives? (Remember that we need to
evaluate the success of the project in the end. Having some way to
measure this would help you mentor it).

  * Do we have some code pointers to get started? (Pointing to some code
would help the applying students to more easily see what they'll need to
do... and may be they'll provide better applications).

[0]: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas
[1]: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoc 

Thanks a lot for your help!

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