Hello Peter, Thanks for the offer, it's definitely appreciated and I'll certainly keep you in mind when I start exploration. If you want to do some 'background reading' of the existing state of affairs, it would be worth downloading the relevent eclipse plugins<http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/wayne/2009/01/20/eclipse-slideshow/>to experiment with.
Thanks again, Scott On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Peter <prawstho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Scott, > > This looks like a very cool initiative. I'm an Ubuntu / Eclipse user > so let me know if you require some testing or QA. > I agree, it is more closely aligned with the Eclipse or MediaWiki > teams. And yes WE community could end up as benefactors of this > project. > > Cheers, Peter > > On Mar 8, 11:06 am, Scott Newson <scott.g.new...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 <scott.g.new...@gmail.com > >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 <jwsta...@yahoo.com> > 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 <jtitts...@gmail.com> > > >> *To:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com > > >> *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 <scott.g.new...@gmail.com> > > >> 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 wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
