Hi everyone, I've submitted a proposal for GSOC 2014 on Follow-me slideshow. I never gave myself a chance to discuss about the proposal with the mentors ( though have researched about it ). I joined the community in january and started working on the Easy Hack 42788. <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42788>.. I had no luck on that one, but tried very much without the slightest knowledge of gdb, git, opengrok too. I then took up another easy hack fdo#64290 UI: count selected rows and columns, to boost up my confidence.. I worked on this on for 3 weeks and finally, i got the result.. I submitted my patch to gerrit ( https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/8489/ ) for review, but unlucky me, there was a similar patch that got approved first, so mine was abandoned.. Meanwhile I had found details about GSOC. But my patch was abandoned so i took up a new one, which is why I didn't find time to discuss about my proposal before submission. *Bug 62957* <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62957> - FILESAVE: Save Last Slide Position in Impress, is my third hack that i worked on. When I first took it, I wanted to complete it before submission of my proposal ie. in a week. I couldn't complete it but submitted my proposal anyway. I took a break for sometime to properly study Telepathy framework and looked up the implementations of telepathy tubes in LO which is already present.. A week back I took up the bug again, fully determined to complete it this time. I finally completed it yesterday and have submitted it for the review. https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/8946/.
Well, I believe that starting is always the toughest part.. After starting something, we will do something to end what we have started.. All I am looking from GSOC is a very good start at the community. My proposal has lots of week points that I would like to change.. I would like to become more specific on my goals ie. timeline for submissions etc, since I ve understood it a little better after reading about telepathy. Am I too late to be asking this? Is the potential mentor of my proposed project already been assigned to someone else? I have learned many things after joining the community and would like to learn even more and parallely contribute to libreoffice. Thank you.
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