Jason:
As you know, I have done a lot of thinking about interactive math
editors, and when I estimate how long it would take me to write what I
consider a descent editor, it is on the order of a month and a half to
two months of full-time work. You would need someone with experience
in object-oriented programming, and cross-browser javascript coding
(particularly familiar with event handling). As you know, I had a
student work on this in the past, and we spend a full year on it and
still didn't have a finished product. I do not know the student who
has proposed the project, so I can't tell you if he or she can
accomplish the task, but my experience is that this is not a summer
project for most students. Having an almost-but-not-quite-finished,
or worse yet, a buggy editor will be worse than having none at all.
This is also something that will need support into the future
(especially as new versions of browsers come out, since this is
closely tied to one of the more touchy aspects of javascript -- event
handling), so I am a bit concerned about the code being written and
then slowly degrading over time. As for mentoring the project, I'm
afraid that I am already booked up this summer and could not in good
conscience take on advising a student on a project of this magnitude.
I know that none of that is what you wanted to hear, but that is my
opinion. On the other hand, it is still something I would be
interested in working on. If you have some cash to throw at it, we
should talk. :-)
Davide
On Mar 19, 2012, at 6:39 PM, Jason Grout wrote:
On 3/18/12 4:14 PM, Yukun wrote:
That ticket pretty much covers what I want to implement; do you
think that is suitable for a GSoC project?
My guess is that a good javascript equation editor would be a good
project. I'd suggest asking Davide Cervone if he would mentor the
project. As the ticket points out, Davide wrote Mathjax keeping in
mind the things needed for an equation editor. Davide had a student
that worked on an equation editor at one point.
Davide: Sage has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the
Google Summer of Code program. A student asked about doing a Google
Summer of Code project implementing a javascript equation editor
[1], like http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/talks/2006-12-08.IMA/editor.html
(at least, that's what I think the student is talking about). Can
you give us an idea of how much work it would be, and what level of
experience is necessary to do such a thing over a summer? Also,
would you possibly be willing to mentor such a project in the summer
if a well-qualified student applied?
Thanks,
Jason
[1]
http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/318f154094736177#
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