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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Hi:</SPAN><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 2em"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">My name is Suhang, a
student in my 1st year of my doctor's degree on multimedia and internet from
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w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>,GMT+8. I find myself interested
in your GSoC project. So I write this email to introduce my self to
KDE.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The
project "Community Integration for KStars" is my favorite one, and I have
some initial ideas about it here:</SPAN><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 24pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">XML is a widely used
file format and there exist several widely used open source XML parsing
tools also. Making use of already existed xml parsing code would make is much
easier to complete OAL 2.x. XMLParser is one of the most famous libs
to do that. I have used XMLParser in the projects I participated in to
fetch configuration info and object list. </SPAN><SPAN
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lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">To fulfill to goal of
fetching xml file from and uploading file to a server on internet, libcurl
would a big help, which could work under both http, ftp, https,
ftps and many other protocols. I used to fulfill a FTP Client above
libcurl. I think the experience would be big help for the GSoC
project.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 24pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">What's more, I'm a C++
programmer with the experience of project for 5+ years. A P2P video player is my
team's last project. I developed the overlay, video server, rp server,
cache system, UI and several other components of the P2P system. And we use
SVN as the version management tool.</SPAN><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 24pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">What's more, I can't
open the url of "</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US><A
title=http://groups.google.com/group/openastronomylog
href="http://groups.google.com/group/openastronomylog"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT color=#800080>OAL 2.x
schema</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">" listed on the project
introduction. May be there're some errors on that page? where can I get
more information about it and KStar and other related references? And is there
some qualification task I should finish to apply for KDE GSoC
projects?</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 24pt"><FONT
face=Verdana><FONT size=2><SPAN>That's my Initial ideas about
kStar and my self introduction. I hope I'm not bothering you too much before the
application timeline start. I'll appreciate your feedback about my ideas or
any other advices or information. Thank U for reading this email.</SPAN><SPAN
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<DIV><EM><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Regards</FONT></EM></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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