Hi Rob, Thanks for your reply. I would love to take up that idea. I hope the reply from Luciano gives you an idea about the program.
I have done a good number of project in java, mainly android apps and a few in J2SE. I hope that makes you clear about my Java skills. I have already subscribed to the dev mailing list of ODF Toolkit and Open Office. As indicated i am trying to do a simple documentation generation task. Regards On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Sony Kovoor <sonyckov...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I am an open source enthusiast and was looking forward to contribute >> > towards the community. It was then I heard about ASF Mentoring >> program[1] >> > conducted in association with ICFOSS[2] in India by Luciano Resende[3] >> and >> > attended it. >> > >> >> Hello Sony, >> >> Thanks for writing. I was the one who entered the COMDEV-76 idea for >> GSoC. We didn't have any student pick that idea yet, so it is still >> open for anyone who want to work on it. >> >> I'm not so familiar with the ICFOSS/Apache mentoring program, so I'm >> cc'ing Luciano, so he can tell us what the required process is for >> this on the Apache side. >> >> > Thanks for ccing me Rob, the process at Apache side is going to be very > similar to GSoC (except that we are going to use wiki instead of melange > for the proposals). > > Mentor coordination is being done in the usual list (code-awards), which I > believe you are already subscribed. > > More details at : > > http://community.apache.org/mentoringprogramme-icfoss-pilot.html > > >> How are your Java skills? You might want to download the ODF Toolkit, >> build it and try a simple documentation generation task, to get a feel >> for how it works. >> >> The code is here: http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/ >> >> And a "cook book" of sample code is here: >> http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/simple/document/cookbook/index.html >> >> This is a good way to get some experience with open source. In fact, >> you'll get a double dose of experience, since you would be using a >> library from one project (ODF Toolkit) to generate test documents for >> another project (OpenOffice). So you would likely be active on the >> mailing lists for both projects. >> >> Regards, >> >> -Rob >> >> > As a part of the program, we have to take up an idea from 2013 ICFOSS >> > Programme Project Ideas JIRA[4] and solve it under a formal mentor. >> > >> > I would like to know whether any one has already taken up COMDEV-76 >> > [GSoC] Test Document Generator/Permutator for Apache OpenOffice[5]. If >> not, >> > any one here is willing to support me with formal mentor-ship, more >> details >> > of the idea and induce me to the world of open source development. >> > >> > >> > >> > [1] http://community.apache.org/mentoringprogramme-icfoss-pilot.html >> > >> > [2] http://icfoss.org/ >> > >> > [3] http://people.apache.org/~lresende >> > >> > [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12324056 >> > >> > [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-76 >> > -- >> > Sony Cyriac >> > >> > E Mail : sonyckov...@gmail.com >> > > > > -- > Luciano Resende > http://people.apache.org/~lresende > http://twitter.com/lresende1975 > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ > -- Sony Cyriac E Mail : sonyckov...@gmail.com
