We are preparing to this year Google Summer of Code (GSoC)

Dear Smalltalkers,

I'd like to inform you that we are preparing an application to this year
Smalltalk Google Summer of Code under ESUG umbrella, as last year.

If accepted, Google will pay few stipendiums to students on our
Smalltalk projects. Please start thinking about ideas what projects
would be nice to have. Also start looking around for students. How to
approach the universitites near by you, do you know who to contact
there, etc. To see last year ideas and accepted/done projects, visit
last year http://gsoc2010.esug.org.

More on our already open special Smalltalk GSoC 2011 website:

        http://gsoc2011.esug.org

I'm specially inviting mentors of all past GSoCs to rejoin the mentors
mailing list, where we discuss all details about this year GSoC:

        http://groups.google.com/group/smalltalk-gsoc-mentors

Best regards
Janko

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Talking about ideas... I remember a few months ago there was a thread talking about ways to manipulate EXCEL files with Pharo, and the conclusion was that... there weren't much options apart from exporting a .xls into a .csv or .xml or other format easy to parse.

Is the community interested in a project to manipulate EXCEL files directly?

On the other hand... Janko, do you think a project like this, that uses open source technology to interact with Office still qualifies for GSoC?

Cheers,
Carla.

Hi Carla,

Just to add a little announcement, Carla accepted to be admin with me to
this year GSoC. Thanks Carla again!

More below..

On 09. 03. 2011 21:02, Carla F. Griggio wrote:

> Talking about ideas... I remember a few months ago there was a thread
> talking about ways to manipulate EXCEL files with Pharo, and the
> conclusion was that... there weren't much options apart from exporting a
> .xls into a .csv or .xml or other format easy to parse.
>
> Is the community interested in a project to manipulate EXCEL files directly?
>
> On the other hand... Janko, do you think a project like this, that uses
> open source technology to interact with Office still qualifies for GSoC?

Yep, because resulting code is open source, even if interacts with
commercial software. And we need more such "I/O to other worlds" tools,
so I aggree, this could be a nice and not too difficult project.

Janko

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It looks like ESUG wasn't accepted this year.

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/program/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2011

2011/3/9 Janko Mivšek <[hidden email]>:

That's true, sadly.

On Sunday, March 20, 2011, Eric Lavigne <[hidden email]> wrote:

     If ESUG is planning another try for 2012, I'd like to help.


-C

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