Re: [Texmacs-dev] [address@hidden: [gnu-prog-discuss] GSoC 2020: The GNU Project has been accepted as a mentor organization!]

[Massimiliano Gubinelli]

Yes, thanks a lot. I think is important to show up. The ideas are good, and 
students can always come up with more ideas.

max


> On 22. Mar 2020, at 18:48, Darcy Shen <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> A bit late but finally I have propose the ideas.
> 
> Only three ideas are selected and proposed.
> 
> On 2020/3/17 下午11:36, Massimiliano Gubinelli wrote:
>> The plans seems good to me.
>> 
>> Maybe you can foward them to GNU to include in the GSoC campain
>> 
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/guidelines.html
>> 
>> Some remarks/improvements/suggestions:
>> 
>> 1) bibliographic tools: connection with Zotero would be nice to have. I 
>> personally use it and is a free bibliographic tool with a wide user base.
>> 
>> 2) Port to scheme 2-3 is done :) I'm doing the last tuning but essentially 
>> (from yesterday) I have a version of TeXmacs which works with Guile 3 both 
>> in interpreted and compiled mode. So I would remove this from the tasks.
>> 
>> 3) It would be very important to us to have a nice and polished interface to 
>> jupyter kernels. So this task can be made more prominent. You can hint to 
>> the fact that we have already a bare-bones jupyter client plugin.
>> 
>> 4) GUI. Qt5 port is almost ready, we wait Joris to release TeXmacs 2.1.  
>> Here I see the possibility to develop other ports like to Cocoa  or a native 
>> Windows port. More generally would be interesting to have a common way to 
>> interface TeXmacs with modern GUI APIs.
>> 
>> 5) An Haiku port of TeXmacs. www.haiku-os.com is a very intersting operating 
>> system and also on GSoC this year.
>> 
>> 6) Write documentation/ tutorials.
>> 
>> 7)  A nice feature to have is a preview on links: when the cursor hovers a 
>> link a window is opened which renders a portion of area around the place the 
>> link points to. It is useful to check references/
>> 
>> 8) In general references in TeXmacs could have some love: we lack now the 
>> ability to search for all occurences of a reference or replace them. This 
>> could be improved.
>> 
>> 
>> Best Max
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 17. Mar 2020, at 16:15, Darcy Shen via Texmacs-dev <address@hidden> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Sorry, for the late reply. Working at home spends me more time on work and 
>>> I have less personal time than usual.
>>> 
>>> ## My Opinion
>>> 
>>> Currently, no active students contacted me to join the Summer of Code.
>>> 
>>> I hope there are self-motivated students. It would be better if they are 
>>> more interested in TeXmacs itself than GSoC.
>>> 
>>> If there are students who join the development of GNU TeXmacs actively, I'd 
>>> like to propose some ideas.
>>> 
>>> ## Ideas prepared for GSoC 2019
>>> 
>>> Last year, I wrote some ideas on Github:
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/texmacs/tsoc/blob/master/docs/GSoC2019.md
>>> 
>>> I didn't realize that we should submit our ideas to the GNU umbrella GSoC 
>>> last year.
>>> 
>>> On 2020/3/6 下午11:11, Massimiliano Gubinelli via Texmacs-dev wrote:
>>>> What about this?
>>>> Darcy, are you willing to propose some projects to be presented under the 
>>>> GNU umbrella GSoC?
>>>> 
>>>> Max
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 23. Feb 2020, at 06:55, TeXmacs <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> For your information.  --Joris
>>>>> 
>>>>> ----- Forwarded message from "Jose E. Marchesi" <address@hidden> -----
>>>>> 
>>>>> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 18:06:13 +0100
>>>>> From: "Jose E. Marchesi" <address@hidden>
>>>>> Subject: [gnu-prog-discuss] GSoC 2020: The GNU Project has been accepted 
>>>>> as a mentor organization!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi people!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Google just notified us that the GNU Project has been, once again,
>>>>> accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2020.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Note that Google won't make the list of accepted projects public until
>>>>> today February 20 at 19:00 CET, but we shall be ready in order to start
>>>>> getting requests from interested students.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So, please be on the ready :)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Also, please note that it is still possible for more GNU programs to
>>>>> participate under the GNU umbrella: just send us ideas to
>>>>> address@hidden (for each idea/project, include a paragraph
>>>>> describing it, skills required, and a contact address for interested
>>>>> students) and we will add them to our ideas page.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Salud!
>>>>> 
>>>>> ----- End forwarded message -----
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