GSoC 2011!

[todd rme]

I have a couple suggestions about possible projects:

1. Implement a plasma-based "Presentation view" containment for Stage,
with various elements (timer, slide list, next slide, previous slide,
navigation buttons, etc) that can be arranged and resized in a
drag-and-drop fashion.  Users should be able to set up multiple
different views and switch between them easily.  There is already a
presentation view, but using plasma would allow for a much more
flexible system than is currently available in any program.

See here for other implementations:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/what-is-presenter-view-HA010360603.aspx
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Presenter_Screen

2. Implement Prezi or Zippl-like transition capabilities in Stage.  In
these tools, presentations are created on a single large canvas, and
as the presentation proceeds the view moves from place to place along
the canvas.  The most basic would just use sliding transitions from
one fixed location to another, but ideally it would include zooming in
or out as part of the presentation, additional transitions, and
buttons that would allow you to travel along alternate paths.

See here for more information:
http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/06/11/zippl-a-lightweigth-presentation-tool/
http://prezi.com/

3. In Stage, merge the slide sorter, Documents panel, and custom
presentation interfaces into a single interface.  It would start as a
panel with a button that would expand to act as the slide sorter, with
a normally hidden sub-panel to add and remove slides.  Ideally a
drag-and-drop interface would be implemented for the documents panel
in the process.

See here:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254690
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254696
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260551

4. Implement a Zotero plug-in for Calligra.  Zotero is an open-source
reference manager.  It currently has openoffice and MS office
plug-ins, but no calligra or koffice plug-in.

See here:
http://www.zotero.org/




On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Cyrille Berger Skott
<cberger at cberger.net> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Since GSoC 2011 has been announced, time to fill the ideas page:
>
> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas#Calligra
> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas#Krita
>
> And time for students to start thinking about it :)
>
> --
> Cyrille Berger Skott
>
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> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:41:31 +0100
> Subject: GSoC 2011!
> Heya folks :)
>
> GSoC 2011 has been announced yesterday at LCA.  \o/
> Valorie has created the page to collect ideas. It's a cleaned up copy
> of last year's page. Please add plenty of ideas as soon as you can:
> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas  Students are already waiting
> so the sooner your ideas is on the page the better.
>
> In case you are new to GSoC in KDE please check http://community.kde.org/GSoC
> An excellent resource for both new mentors and those who've done it
> before: http://www.booki.cc/gsoc-mentoring/
>
> For questions please contact the admins (lfranchi, valorie,
> neverendingo and nightrose) in #kde-soc. If you want to help with the
> organisation please let me know.
>
>
> Cheers
> Lydia
>
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