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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Draft of my application for Google Summer of Code
From:       Inge Wallin <inge () lysator ! liu ! se>
Date:       2008-03-28 10:09:06
Message-ID: 200803281109.06844.inge () lysator ! liu ! se
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On Wednesday 26 March 2008 22:27:25 Simon Schmeisser wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 March 2008 08:27:15 Inge Wallin wrote:
> > This sounds to me like a match made in heaven. :-)
> >
> :)
> :
> > I'm not sure about the details and your ideas.  In general they sound
> > good to me, but may be a bit much for a Google summer of code project.
> > But a Flake shape using Marble is something that I wanted to do myself
> > for koffice 2.1.
>
> Well, generally speaking I think given the fact that I have many small sub
> goals that will be of benefit on their own I do think that not getting
> everything done should be considered a failure. It is still a lot though.
> So I am currently considering dropping the page templates part and focusing
> some more on marble. I didn't do that before, since I expected a GSoC
> student working on marble and was therefore expecting a conflict. Should I
> submit two applications, one with more focus on marble (support for tile
> providers like google maps and others, path editing, improving kml support
> where necessary) and the other one like I already have it?

So, with all this out of the way, when will we see your project 
application? :-)

	-Inge

> > As one of the two maintainers of Marble, and also for KChart here in
> > KOffice (although that has been on the back burner for some time), I
> > volunteer to mentor this GSoC project.
>
> Thanks :)
>
> > I see that you have some plans for KPresenter too, and there I may need
> > some help.  I don't think that will be a problem, because the KOffice
> > crowd is very helpful, and active on IRC.
>
> Someone will step up once I have screwed up the kpresenter code badly
> enough ;)
>
> > Other things of interest to you:
> >  - I have refactored Marble so that you don't have to use the widget, but
> > can use the more abstract MarbleMap for the flake shape.  I did this with
> > exactly this project in mind. :-)
>
> thanks again, looks perfectly like what I need, stop doing my work ;)
>
> >  - Marble already has some very basic OpenStreetMap integration, based on
> > bitmap tiles, but more advanced support is already planned using vectors.
> > If you do work on this, both projects will benefit. There are even plans
> > for routing, which may not be of so much interest for KOffice.
>
> Sounds like there is a student interrested in particulary this. Also this
> would propably be enough work on it's own and I still want to be able to do
> a presentation of this years bike tour afterwards. So dropping all of the
> kpresenter stuff would not make sense to me.

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