This blog is aimed at keeping track on my open source ventures. I've always been awed by the concept of FOSS (free and open source software), but never actually got my own hands dirty. But now with the summer holidays and my ever growing passion in programming, I'm in and I'm in for good.
I'm starting out by working for an awesome open source cross platform word processor AbiWord. I've been aware of its existence and I've actually seen people use it in many low config PCs (those which couldn't afford the heavy requirements of MS Office) but never really contributed to it but in the process of applying for GSoC 2012, I'm looking into it quite deeply. I've worked on bugs & created a few patches, essentially getting a flavor of the code.
Truth be told, I'm totally impressed by how things work in the AbiWord community, with so many people from different continents working in collaboration. Such is their dedication that even after keeping full time jobs and families they spend a lot of time hacking for AbiWord and that too all voluntarily, that i think is the beauty of open-source. And I'm loving it and i think this is something I'm going to sink right in.
The Judgement Day (23rd April) - the day GSoC result comes out (eagerly waiting for it :)), I've applied for the project of improving the math import/export in Abiword with the center of attraction being the MathML to itex convert as AbiWord uses itex as its Math Composition Language. For instance currently AbiWord can import the MathML of odt but we can't edit it inside AbiWord.
Even though getting selected will be a great honor and responsibility, i plan on to dropping all my other internship options (foreign interns - I'm sorry !) and do this no matter what and use this blog to keep a track of my work.
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