SOC 2008 Projects Announced

[Austin English]

For those of you who haven't heard yet, the Google SOC Projects were
announced today:
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/04/announcing-accepted-student-pr...

5 Wine projects have been accepted:
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/wine/about.html

  <http://code.google.com/soc/2008/wine/about.html#>Improving Wine MSXML
implementation
<http://code.google.com/soc/2008/wine/appinfo.html?csaid=A546A592C8ACDDD5>
 by Piotr Caban, mentored by James Hawkins
  Print Dialog
<http://code.google.com/soc/2008/wine/appinfo.html?csaid=7CC6A70D0D7A1FDE>
 by Gal Topper, mentored by Detlef Riekenberg
   <http://code.google.com/soc/2008/wine/about.html#> Implementing proper
Control Panel support for Wine
<http://code.google.com/soc/2008/wine/appinfo.html?csaid=8B4254855F2BD854>
 by Owen Rudge, mentored by Juan Lang
   <http://code.google.com/soc/2008/wine/about.html#> DirectPlay
implementation
<http://code.google.com/soc/2008/wine/appinfo.html?csaid=984D708DA20ACA94>
 by Ismael Barros Barros, mentored by Kai Blin
  Wine - Richedit with Tables
<http://code.google.com/soc/2008/wine/appinfo.html?csaid=7D1930729985958C>
 by Dylan Andrew Harper Smith, mentored by Huw D M Davies
   <http://code.google.com/soc/2008/wine/about.html#> Improve Gdi+
Implemenation
<http://code.google.com/soc/2008/wine/appinfo.html?csaid=7BE88570BACC2046>
 by Adam Joel Petaccia, mentored by Lei Zhang

Thanks to all those who applied and congrats to those who were accepted!

Now get hacking ;-).

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Hi Austin,

2008/4/22 Austin English <austinenglish(a)gmail.com>:
> For those of you who haven't heard yet, the Google SOC Projects were
> announced today:
> http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/04/announcing-accepted-student-pr...
>
> 5 Wine projects have been accepted:
> http://code.google.com/soc/2008/wine/about.html
> I count six?
> Improving Wine MSXML implementation
>  by Piotr Caban, mentored by James Hawkins
>
> Print Dialog
>  by Gal Topper, mentored by Detlef Riekenberg
>
> Implementing proper Control Panel support for Wine
>  by Owen Rudge, mentored by Juan Lang
>
> DirectPlay implementation
>  by Ismael Barros Barros, mentored by Kai Blin
>
> Wine - Richedit with Tables
>  by Dylan Andrew Harper Smith, mentored by Huw D M Davies
>
> Improve Gdi+ Implemenation
>  by Adam Joel Petaccia, mentored by Lei Zhang
> Thanks to all those who applied and congrats to those who were accepted!
> Could the students come forward and say something about themself?

Cheers,
Maarten.


PS: Please no html formatted emails.

[Owen Rudge]

> Could the students come forward and say something about themself?

Hello all. :-) I already introduced myself a while ago when I was writing my 
proposal, and I'm very pleased to see that it was accepted! I'm a 3rd year 
comp sci student at the University of St Andrews in sunny(!) Scotland. 
Looking forward to getting to work on Wine, although I've got exams and a 
junior honours project to get finished first, alas! I've got various ideas 
floating around my head and have figured out how I think I'm going to start 
tackling the project, so hopefully I'll be all ready to go when exams are 
out of the way.

Cheers,

-- 
Owen Rudge
http://www.owenrudge.net/

[RazZziel]

> Could the students come forward and say something about themself?

Hi there

I'm from Spain and I'm supposed to hack DirectPlay support up until
wine can fully run at least GTA2 multiplayer out of the box, but I
hope to have time enough to give some love to other dplay games. I'll
try not to have too much fun in the testing phases, I promise :)

I still have to get some exams done before embracing the sleepless
nights of passionate coding (and/or swearing against msdn), but things
are going faster than expected and I hopefully will be free of urgent
duties in two or three weeks.

Hope not to break anything
Over and out
   Ismael

[Adam Petaccia]

> Could the students come forward and say something about themself?

Hello Wine world, my name is Adam Petaccia, and this summer I will be
working on Wine's GDI+ implementation, so more applications can work
"out of the box". I am currently a student at the University of North
Carolina, Greensboro (US), and look forward to getting to coding, once
I'm done with those pesky exams.

Its exciting to see how far Wine has come (I remember running Starcraft
as root with nice -20 just so that the game could be somwhat playable --
thank [deity] we don't have to do that now) and I look forward to making
Wine even greater.

[Piotr Caban]

Hi,

I'll be working on msxml3.dll. I'm planning to implement SAX (Simple API for 
XML) and fix as much bugs related to this dll as I can. My main goal is to 
fix part of 8945 bug related to msxml.

I'm from Poland. I'm a second year computer science student at University of 
Wroclaw. I was working on Wine's implementation of OleView two years ago (as 
SoC project).
I'm really excited about this year project and looking forward for coding.

Cheers, Piotr