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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Joining koffice development team
From:       Philippe Rigault <prigault () oricom ! ca>
Date:       2006-02-05 16:10:28
Message-ID: 200602051110.28737.prigault () oricom ! ca
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Dear koffice developers,

After five years of unofficially contributing (a little bit) to the KDE 
project, I would like to officially join the koffice team and spend more 
effort on improving KDE. 

So far, I have mostly filed bugs, packaged/tested KDE releases (since 3.0) and 
deployed KDE in various business (three companies) and academic settings, 
contributed to konstruct. This has worked well for me because the 
improvements/bugs I contributed were small and non-invasive, so I could do it 
through the bug system. Now that I have more ambitious plans and more 
resources, I feel that the need for commit rights and closer coordination 
with other developers is there. 

I woule like primarily to contribute to:
 
1. Krita
 Help make it the tool of choice for digital photo edition, including 
professional usage. I have been doing serious digital photography for 7 
years, and my opinion is that there is still no adequate tool today for a 
decent image processing tool that is both well-featured, compatible with 
proprietary formats and scriptable (I have used many). I have followed krita 
for a while, and its support for openEXR,  16-bit images and colour profiles, 
convince me that I should code what I want in that tool. Here are the areas I 
am interested in:

 - RAW filters
	- Generic framework for various CCD geometries
	- Improved algorithms for demosaicing (interpolation of CCD data -> RBG)
	- Full support for popular raw formats (e.g Nikon's NEF and Canon's CRW), 
including EXIF data edition and 'Save as RAW'
 - TIFF filters
 - Added functions/interfaces for photo edition
 - Scripting for digital image processing pipeline

2. Kspread and Kexi
 Focus on polishing features needed in a business/academic setting: 
compatibility with OpenOffice.org and MSOffice, interaction with databases, 
web environments and scientific environments such as R.
I just partly rewrote the CSV export filter of kspread (see bug 121396), this 
should give you an idea of my coding.

3. Being a university professor and a researcher (Universite Laval, Quebec), I 
could contribute to events (maybe even help organize a KDE meeting in Quebec 
in the future), developers (mainly university students) and KDE promotion. I 
have direct access to many KDE users at my organization where I deploy the 
computer infrastructure and maintain KDE, not to mention three avid users at 
home who often know more than myself in the kids-oriented area of KDE.

Let me know wht you think of me joining the team, and feel free to ask 
questions.

Best regards,

Philippe Rigault
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