we urgently need more tasks for Google Code-in

[Philip Van Hoof]

On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 15:34 +0100, Lydia Pintscher wrote:

Heya Lydia,

> Here's a chance to get a lot of work done by our eager Google Code-in students.
> 
> Google Code-in has been running for a bit now and we're close to
> running out of tasks. Please help me out by adding new tasks for the
> students. They're 13 to 17 years old and can work on:
> * Code

For a Code task, but I'm not a Google mentor anymore since a few years,
I would propose a task to help the Calligra maintainers split the many
components into well separated and written office-suite libraries.

This includes ensuring that a well defined environment on Windows and
MacOS X will be documented and the build environment prepared to help
people with quickly setting up a development environment. But also, and
perhaps more importantly, improve documentation on working with
Calligra's APIs / developing with Calligra.

For example making a SDK installer for Windows that hooks into Visual
Studio C++, language bindings to C#, Cocoa, Obj-C, support for Eclipse,
intelliSence and code completion, etc. I think this would push
calligra-libs and -dev to a new level attracting many more developers
and opening opportunities for the libraries to be used in a lot more
places for office suites but also for software that could use office
document parsers and perhaps more importantly renderers (for which there
are afaik currently not even commercial offerings that are platform
independent and that can be used as libraries - like Calligra can).

I could mentor this, but I must admit that I'm rather new to both
Calligra and KDE so perhaps that's not a good idea.

Kind regards,

Philip

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Philip Van Hoof
Software developer
Codeminded BVBA - http://codeminded.be