On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 15:01 -0700, Amit wrote:
Hey guys,
I applied for a position in the GSoC project for Fedora. The title of
the project is "Working, Elegant DocBook to PDF Solution." I was in
correspondence with Karsten Wade throughout the application process.
However, the last student slot was cut and this project was not
chosen.
A few days ago, I received an email from Karsten asking me if I was
still interested in the project. I was very much interested and thus I
am posting my original proposal (abridged - removed some items such as
schedules) for the GSoC project here. If the solution sounds viable
and applicable, we could definitely get the project going.
Amit, thanks for your continued interest. This is a great chance for us
all to collaborate on something often asked for, a good PDF toolchain.
The proposal is pretty well vetted, in that Paul, Patrick, and I went
over all the concepts and agree that this is the currently best
approach. We also think it is useful for our toolchain to support
multiple methods for accomplishing a goal. There are reasons why one
would choose passivetex, FOP, or ReportLab as ways to get a PDF.
cheers - Karsten
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