Fwd: Google Summer of Code

2012-03-06 Thread mehdi houshmand
I fat-fingered the reply button instead of reply-to-all... *face-palm* -- Forwarded message -- From: mehdi houshmand med1...@gmail.com Date: 6 March 2012 09:33 Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code To: Craig Ringer ring...@ringerc.id.au On 6 March 2012 00:16, Craig Ringer ring

Fwd: Google Summer of Code

2012-03-06 Thread mehdi houshmand
-- Forwarded message -- From: mehdi houshmand med1...@gmail.com Date: 6 March 2012 10:12 Subject: Fwd: Google Summer of Code To: fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org I fat-fingered the reply button instead of reply-to-all... *face-palm* -- Forwarded message -- From

Re: Fwd: Google Summer of Code

2012-03-06 Thread Chris Bowditch
On 06/03/2012 10:12, mehdi houshmand wrote: I fat-fingered the reply button instead of reply-to-all... *face-palm* Mehdi, Craig, snip/ - Anything in the proposed XSL-FO 2.0 feature list (though most of it won't be realistic for GSoC projects); - Merge fop-pdf-image and implement smart

Re: Fwd: Google Summer of Code

2012-03-06 Thread mehdi houshmand
Font de-duping is intrinsically a post-process action, you need the full document, with all fonts, before you can do any font de-duping. PostScript does this very thing (to a much lesser extent) with the optimize-resources tag, as a post-process action. Also, the requirements aren't clear here,

Re: Fwd: Google Summer of Code

2012-03-06 Thread Chris Bowditch
On 06/03/2012 11:08, mehdi houshmand wrote: Hi Mehdi, Font de-duping is intrinsically a post-process action, you need the full document, with all fonts, before you can do any font de-duping. PostScript does this very thing (to a much lesser extent) with the optimize-resources tag, as a

Re: Fwd: Google Summer of Code

2012-03-06 Thread Craig Ringer
My reply is interleaved below, but there's something important to cover before reading on. There's clearly a difference in what I mean by de-duplication vs what you're thinking I mean by de-duplication. As far as I can tell you're looking at font substitution and un/re-embedding, where (eg)

Re: Fwd: Google Summer of Code

2012-03-06 Thread Craig Ringer
On 03/06/2012 07:29 PM, Chris Bowditch wrote: On 06/03/2012 11:08, mehdi houshmand wrote: Hi Mehdi, Font de-duping is intrinsically a post-process action, you need the full document, with all fonts, before you can do any font de-duping. PostScript does this very thing (to a much lesser

Re: Google Summer of Code

2012-03-05 Thread mehdi houshmand
to the Google Summer of Code Project? how does it relate to ASF and FOP activities? On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:50 AM, mehdi houshmand med1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We're thinking of submitting a proposal or two to the Google Summer of Code project and wanted to get some input from the community

Re: Google Summer of Code

2012-03-05 Thread Glenn Adams
, there's plenty of information out there. http://code.google.com/soc/ Mehdi On 1 March 2012 16:13, Glenn Adams gl...@skynav.com wrote: could you provide a link to the Google Summer of Code Project? how does it relate to ASF and FOP activities? On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:50 AM

Re: Google Summer of Code

2012-03-05 Thread mehdi houshmand
...@skynav.com wrote: could you provide a link to the Google Summer of Code Project? how does it relate to ASF and FOP activities? On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:50 AM, mehdi houshmand med1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We're thinking of submitting a proposal or two to the Google Summer

Re: Google Summer of Code

2012-03-05 Thread Alexios Giotis
, but if you do some research, there's plenty of information out there. http://code.google.com/soc/ Mehdi On 1 March 2012 16:13, Glenn Adams gl...@skynav.com wrote: could you provide a link to the Google Summer of Code Project? how does it relate to ASF and FOP activities? On Thu, Mar 1

Re: Google Summer of Code

2012-03-05 Thread mehdi houshmand
to the GSoC below, but if you do some research, there's plenty of information out there. http://code.google.com/soc/ Mehdi On 1 March 2012 16:13, Glenn Adams gl...@skynav.com wrote: could you provide a link to the Google Summer of Code Project? how does it relate to ASF and FOP activities

Re: Google Summer of Code

2012-03-05 Thread Chris Bowditch
of Code Project? how does it relate to ASF and FOP activities? On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:50 AM, mehdi houshmandmed1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We're thinking of submitting a proposal or two to the Google Summer of Code project and wanted to get some input from the community on ideas. Once we've got

Re: Google Summer of Code

2012-03-05 Thread Craig Ringer
On 03/05/2012 09:35 PM, mehdi houshmand wrote: Because of the overwhelming popularity of this idea, I've created a link on the Wiki (http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/GoogleSummerOfCode2012) for the GSoC proposals. Things that come to mind for me: - PDFBox backend (probably ideal for

Re: Google Summer of Code

2012-03-05 Thread Craig Ringer
On 03/05/2012 09:35 PM, mehdi houshmand wrote: Because of the overwhelming popularity of this idea, I've created a link on the Wiki (http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/GoogleSummerOfCode2012) for the GSoC proposals. You note font library extraction as a possibility there. I'd like to

Re: Google Summer of Code

2012-03-01 Thread Glenn Adams
could you provide a link to the Google Summer of Code Project? how does it relate to ASF and FOP activities? On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:50 AM, mehdi houshmand med1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We're thinking of submitting a proposal or two to the Google Summer of Code project and wanted to get some

Re: Google Summer of Code

2012-03-01 Thread mehdi houshmand
to the Google Summer of Code Project? how does it relate to ASF and FOP activities? On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:50 AM, mehdi houshmand med1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We're thinking of submitting a proposal or two to the Google Summer of Code project and wanted to get some input from the community

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-04-06 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, If I understand correctly, you can register your proposed projects in JIRA, see the above web page. Oops, I missed that sentence; today, while revisiting this thread I noticed that, according to the timeline [1], the proposals will need to be postponed for next year. :-| The

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-04-06 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, Could anyone help understanding what is that exactly? I've crawled through the available JIRA projects and saw none related with XML Graphics (Batik, FOP, XML Graphics Commons)... (Also, if this is a lengthy process I'd hint towards maybe triggering the process now so next year

Re: Redesigning the web site [was: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects]

2010-03-26 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Simon Pepping wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 07:37:12PM +, Vincent Hennebert wrote: Speaking of the release, many parts of the website are largely outdated and need a serious re-work (the Development tab, mainly). Also, any reference to 0.20.5 should IMO be removed before releasing 1.0.

Re: Redesigning the web site [was: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects]

2010-03-25 Thread Simon Pepping
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 07:37:12PM +, Vincent Hennebert wrote: Speaking of the release, many parts of the website are largely outdated and need a serious re-work (the Development tab, mainly). Also, any reference to 0.20.5 should IMO be removed before releasing 1.0. 0.20.5 is a thing of

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-03-24 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Gardler of ASF announced that it is time for our projects to start preparing for Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Do we have ideas for GSoC projects? Are committers willing to be a mentor? Simon Vincent

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-03-22 Thread Simon Pepping
that would make up a GSoC project? On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:07:21PM +0100, Simon Pepping wrote: Ross Gardler of ASF announced that it is time for our projects to start preparing for Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Do we have ideas for GSoC projects? Are committers willing to be a mentor? Simon

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-03-16 Thread Simon Pepping
that it is time for our projects to start preparing for Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Do we have ideas for GSoC projects? Are committers willing to be a mentor? Simon -- Simon Pepping home page: http://www.leverkruid.eu

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-03-16 Thread Simon Pepping
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:58:07AM +0100, Simon Pepping wrote: If I understand correctly, you can register your proposed projects in JIRA, see the above web page. Then you must advertise your projects so as to attract students; that part is not clear to me. After some more reading of the

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-03-15 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, Do we have ideas for GSoC projects? Actually I have a couple ideas, in the scope of Batik: 1. Online SVG Rasterization Service Create an online service for SVG rasterization, as a valuable way to allow users to benefit from SVG while keeping up with the possibility of using

Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-03-12 Thread Simon Pepping
Ross Gardler of ASF announced that it is time for our projects to start preparing for Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Do we have ideas for GSoC projects? Are committers willing to be a mentor? Simon -- Simon Pepping home page: http://www.leverkruid.eu

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-03-12 Thread Adrian Cumiskey
that it is time for our projects to start preparing for Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Do we have ideas for GSoC projects? Are committers willing to be a mentor? Simon -- Simon Pepping home page: http://www.leverkruid.eu

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-05-30 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Simon, Simon Pepping a écrit : I have one small comment on your decomposition of the line breaking algorithm: * defining a somewhat arbitrary formula used to compute the demerit of each break, and which is to be minimized; I find the above second item in this list a bit misplaced.

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-05-29 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Simon, Simon Pepping a écrit : I have winters of code and summers of less code. That diminishes my ability to provide assistance. What kind of work and responsibilities would assistance include? What would be the time constraints, that is, how fast needs a review be done or a question be

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-05-29 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 28.05.2006 20:29:24 Simon Pepping wrote: On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:47:03PM +0200, Jeremias Maerki wrote: Congratulations to both of you! Both projects got a score of 10 which is the fourth highest score. The ASF got a total of 27 projects. There were other ASF members who voted for the

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-05-29 Thread Simon Pepping
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 10:19:27AM +0200, Vincent Hennebert wrote: Hi Simon, Simon Pepping a écrit : As far as I'm concerned, I'm planning to put my thoughts about the project on a dedicated Wiki page. I think that just providing high-level comments on them would already be of great help:

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-05-28 Thread Simon Pepping
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:47:03PM +0200, Jeremias Maerki wrote: Congratulations to both of you! Both projects got a score of 10 which is the fourth highest score. The ASF got a total of 27 projects. There were other ASF members who voted for the acceptance of the two FOP proposals. That's

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-05-24 Thread Patrick Paul
Hello everyone, Great news for me today, I got accepted for the Google Summer of Code to work on the auto table layout. Thank you very much Jeremias for taking the time to apply as a mentor and rank our projects. Patrick Jeremias Maerki wrote: Got it and rated it. All green

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-05-24 Thread Web Maestro Clay
to at last have the possibility to work full-time on Fop. I hope I will perform good work. Vincent Patrick Paul a écrit : Hello everyone, Great news for me today, I got accepted for the Google Summer of Code to work on the auto table layout. Thank you very much Jeremias for taking the time to apply

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-05-07 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Jeremias, Normally my application should have been sent. However I don't see it on my home page so I wonder if it has to be reviewed first or if the submit has failed. The way the webapp works isn't clear to me yet. Do you see my application? Vincent Jeremias Maerki a écrit : Hi Patrick,

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-05-07 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Vincent, I'm afraid I don't see your application, either. You could simply try again or contact the GSoC support. On 07.05.2006 19:12:26 Vincent Hennebert wrote: Hi Jeremias, Normally my application should have been sent. However I don't see it on my home page so I wonder if it has to be

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-05-07 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Ok, this should have worked this time. Don't know what happened. Vincent Jeremias Maerki a écrit : Vincent, I'm afraid I don't see your application, either. You could simply try again or contact the GSoC support. On 07.05.2006 19:12:26 Vincent Hennebert wrote: Hi Jeremias, Normally my

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-05-07 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Got it and rated it. All green! :-) On 07.05.2006 22:24:26 Vincent Hennebert wrote: Ok, this should have worked this time. Don't know what happened. Vincent Jeremias Maerki a écrit : Vincent, I'm afraid I don't see your application, either. You could simply try again or contact the

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-05-05 Thread Patrick Paul
This is great news :-) I hope that our score(s) will stay high. Do you have your say in the score that the projects get ? Have a nice week-end, Patrick Jeremias Maerki wrote: Hi Patrick, green lights everywhere. I've already ranked it and applied for the mentor position. It turns out

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-05-05 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 05.05.2006 22:44:36 Patrick Paul wrote: This is great news :-) I hope that our score(s) will stay high. Do you have your say in the score that the projects get ? Yes, every registered mentor for the ASF can rate every ASF-related proposal. Have a nice week-end, You, too. Patrick

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-05-03 Thread Jeremias Maerki
It looks like you two need to sign up for the GSoC directly on the website and enter your application there based on the info on the ASF Wiki. This needs to be completed until May 8. After that the applications will be rated by the mentors. To me this was all a bit confusing despite the extensive

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-05-03 Thread Patrick Paul
Hi Jeremias, I have submitted an application. Indeed all this is unclear, I never realized mentors also had to signup. But I'm sure that with your reputation there won't be any problems ;-) In my application I mainly copied the content of the Wiki page. Should you have any comments or

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-28 Thread Patrick Paul
Same here, I've added an entry for auto table layout, right after Vincents. Patrick Vincent Hennebert wrote: Ok, I've added an entry for floats implementation. I'll be off-line from tomorrow until the 6th of may. Just hoping no particular problem will occur during my absence. Anyway, if I

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-27 Thread Patrick Paul
Jeremias, Do you think we should have our two projects posted on the Apache Wiki ? http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2006 Is it better to go through that page, or will our proposals be forwarded directly to you anyway ? Thanks, Patrick Jeremias Maerki wrote: I don't see why you

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-27 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Yes, please add entries for the two projects. That Wiki page is the first station. I'm not sure, yet, who exactly will transfer the proposals to Google (can't remember from last year, either), but the first step is to identify the projects inside the ASF. I'll need to read through the whole

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-24 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Thanks, Vincent and Patrick, for writing down your proposals. Patrick's is pretty clear. I've only amended it a little. I hope it won't be a problem that the task cannot be well estimated, yet. Vincent, a comment on yours: For before-floats, you refer to best-fit and first-fit approaches. I'm

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-24 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Jeremias, Thanks for your review! Vincent, a comment on yours: For before-floats, you refer to best-fit and first-fit approaches. I'm not sure if it's really relevant here. If I'm not mistaken before-floats are pretty similar to footnotes which means you can probably take a lot from there.

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-24 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 24.04.2006 20:49:54 Vincent Hennebert wrote: Hi Jeremias, Thanks for your review! Vincent, a comment on yours: For before-floats, you refer to best-fit and first-fit approaches. I'm not sure if it's really relevant here. If I'm not mistaken before-floats are pretty similar to

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-24 Thread Patrick Paul
Thank you Jeremias for your amendements. Patrick Jeremias Maerki wrote: Thanks, Vincent and Patrick, for writing down your proposals. Patrick's is pretty clear. I've only amended it a little. I hope it won't be a problem that the task cannot be well estimated, yet. Vincent, a comment on

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-23 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi, I'm thinking about setting up a page on the FOP-wiki where I would put up the goals for my proposal. That way I could give the link when submitting my application. Nice idea, indeed. I've taken the liberty of implementing it and created a new Wiki page for the SoC, linked from the

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-23 Thread Patrick Paul
That's great thank you. I added my own page. It's only a start for now. I took some presentation ideas from you, I hope you don't mind too much. I won't mind if you do the same in the future. Cheers, Patrick Vincent Hennebert wrote: Hi, I'm thinking about setting up a page on the

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-19 Thread Patrick Paul
Hi Jeremias, I am happy to know you have a good impression of me. I do have good Java skills, from personal experience as well as from 4 university courses that involved Java. Implementing the auto table layout sounds like the kind of contribution I would really enjoy bringing to the FOP

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-19 Thread Chris Bowditch
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Hi Jeremias, Hi Patrick, yes, I've seen that something's going on in that corner. After my experience last year, I was a bit hesitant to take another stab, but since we've already worked together, I'd be fine mentoring a little project. There are a lot of things that

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-19 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Patrick, I have the suspicion that the auto table layout won't fill you up. With the new design, basic support for auto table layout shouldn't be a very big deal. There are some details, however, that could make this a much bigger fish: Determining ideal column widths based on the inline elment

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-19 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 19.04.2006 10:02:19 Chris Bowditch wrote: Jeremias Maerki wrote: Hi Jeremias, Hi Patrick, yes, I've seen that something's going on in that corner. After my experience last year, I was a bit hesitant to take another stab, but since we've already worked together, I'd be fine

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-19 Thread Jess Holle
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Patrick, I have the suspicion that the auto table layout won't fill you up. With the new design, basic support for auto table layout shouldn't be a very big deal. That's good news, but I'd *really* like to have it :-) Unfortunately, I have no time to implement it

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-19 Thread Patrick Paul
Summer of Code. Also, FOP is a project of the ASF which is just one of the many mentoring organizations... Anyway, I sure hope we can both get accepted to work on FOP this summer. Patrick Jeremias Maerki wrote: I don't see why you couldn't also apply for a slot. Having floats would be cool

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-19 Thread Patrick Paul
Jeremias, I think this is most reasonable. In any case I whish to contribute as mush as possible. I'm thinking about setting up a page on the FOP-wiki where I would put up the goals for my proposal. That way I could give the link when submitting my application. Also, I will be in Europe

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-19 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Jeremias Maerki a écrit : I don't see why you couldn't also apply for a slot. Having floats would be cool (but not simple). I'm not sure about your work on FOrayFont. I think the projects have to be tied to one of the organizations listed by Google. Only the client part in FOP would be part of

Google Summer of Code

2006-04-18 Thread Patrick Paul
Hello everyone, As you may know Google is doing their Summer of Code program again this summer. http://code.google.com/soc/ I would be interested in applying to do some work on FOP this summer. Would you have suggestions about specific developments that would greatly help improve FOP ?

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-18 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Hi Patrick, yes, I've seen that something's going on in that corner. After my experience last year, I was a bit hesitant to take another stab, but since we've already worked together, I'd be fine mentoring a little project. There are a lot of things that could be approached: