[SoC] Re: google summer of code for squeak

[Giovanni Corriga]

Il giorno mar, 20/03/2007 alle 15.20 -0700, John M McIntosh ha scritto:
> Giovanni, we were discussion the summer of code for squeak and were  
> wondering if we could add two entries for Sophie.

Hi John,

sure, we can add them to our list. In fact they're already at
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5936 . Now what we need is:
- two mentors to follow these projects. I need their names, email
addresses and google accounts/gmail addresses.
- more detailed descriptions for the two projects. I've created two new
wiki pages ( http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5970 and
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5971 ) and added a project description
template. Plese fill in as many details as you can.

> They would be.
> 
> Sophie is a multimedia documentation creation tool build on top of  
> Squeak http://www.sophieproject.org. It was funded by a grant from  
> the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation http://www.mellon.org and is  
> distributed under the new BSD license (http://www.sophieproject.org/ 
> about/license).
> 
> (a) Sophie comes with a framework to allow people to add extensions  
> to the Sophie Application, but the api is not
> documented and might require some refactoring to make it into an  
> interface that a Squeak Programmer could usually
> use to add extensions/widgets to Sophie.  Example widgets/extensions  
> should be provided at the end of the project, say a frame to
> execute Smalltalk code, or fetch and render HTML from the internet,  
> or provided an EToy reader frame.
> 
> 
> (b) Sophie writes stores books in an undocumented XML format. This  
> needs to be documented, cleaned up, and possibly moved
> towards one of the W3G standards for XML markup definitions. At the  
> end of the project we would need a Sophie Book that fully describes  
> how the XML is constructed, and what is needed to build books using  
> just the XML formatting. Possibly a Smalltalk api could be created to  
> enable
> users of Seaside applications the ability to generate a Sophie Book  
> from information collected by a Seaside application.