Having started discussion with potential mentors in the Eclipse project and over in MediaWiki, it seems to me that it would be more appropriate to apply to GSoC through one of those projects than through WikiEducator. They are more on the coding side of things, which is what the GSoC is focused on. The WikiEducator community is still a very good target audience though, so you'll still be involved, but WE doesn't have to submit an application. (The old application is here <http://wikieducator.org/Summer_of_Code_Google_2009>, I've made a similar comment there.)
My application will be written up in WE though, and as you are very much who I hope would be the end users I'd very much appreciate any comments or feedback. Application <http://wikieducator.org/User:ScottGeoffrey/GSoC_2009> . I'll definitely make the effort to get the help and suggestions I need once I know if the application has been accepted. @Jim: I'll probably be asking lots of questions about mwlib and looking for example scripts that are already in use. Thanks, ScottGeoffrey On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Scott Newson <[email protected]>wrote: > The existing extension (created by > pediapress<http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/wiki>) > will create a PDF from a collection of wiki pages in a format appropriate to > being printed as a book. I'm guessing the settings could be tweaked to > provide for different output formats, landscape images with backgrounds and > bullet points for example, but not by default or that I've been able to find > easily. This would be one area I'd be interested in improving. > The plugin to the Eclipse IDE <http://www.eclipse.org/> is something > different that is not yet integrated with MediaWiki in any way. It does have > some things that I am fairly sure wouldn't be easy to impliment in the > existing structure such a the realtime preview of what your presentation > will look like. video demo <http://blip.tv/file/1684174/> > Pulling the plugin out of Eclipse and into something more accessible to > educators is my a second area of exploration. > > Hope that helps clarify things, > ScottGeoffrey > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:26 AM, john stampe <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am confused somewhat here whether we are talking about a presentation >> PDF (which supports some slideshow options) or standard PDF. >> >> John >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Jim Tittsler <[email protected]> >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Sent:* Thursday, March 5, 2009 2:57:34 AM >> *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Re: Slideshow built from MediaWiki syntax >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 05:41, Scott Newson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Second, there seems to be some similarity in roles/functionality of this >> > tool and the Download-to-PDF function. As such, I'd really like to gain >> a >> > better understanding of how the to-PDF extention on WE works. I've >> google a >> > couple terms, but have only come up with instructions for installing the >> > extention into wikis, and nothing on how it's built. Who would I talk to >> to >> > find out more about the to-PDF extention? >> >> The Collection extension (now renamed to Book extension) and the >> associated mwlib tools are being developed by PediaPress. >> http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/wiki >> >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
