[TYPO3-GSoC] WebDav support as a potential GSOC project

[Bawolff Bawolff]

Hi. Thank you for your response.


> What did you do for MediaWiki last year?

Last year I did a project to improve image metadata extraction for
MediaWiki. In MediaWiki, when you upload an image, it gets its own
page in the Wiki (Usually called an image description page). This page
has information about the image, including the EXIF data contained in
the image. My project was to extend the EXIF data displayed to other
forms of image metadata (Mostly IPTC and XMP, but it also supported
PNG iTXt chunks, and comment fields in JPG and GIF images), as well as
improve support for EXIF data (MediaWiki's exif support had problems
with some types of exif fields, in particular array fields like GPS
info). Anyways there's a little bit of info about its current status
at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_Past_Projects#Improve_metadata_support
.


> Well, there is really no "system" to how the ideas are laid out. It
> mostly depends on the original submitter if it's a long description or
> simply a three-word sentence. Thus the positioning is not overly
> indicative regarding "importance" or "interest". :)

Thanks. I have now submitted a proposal into the official GSOC website.

--
-Brian Wolff

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Karsten Dambekalns <karsten at typo3.org> wrote:
> Hi Brian.
>
> On 07.04.11 04:38, Bawolff Bawolff wrote:
>> I'm very interested in participating in Google Summer of Code this
>> year, and think that Typo3 would be a cool project to be involved
>> with. I previously participated in GSOC last year, for MediaWiki, and
>> would love to have the opportunity for another summer of coding with
>> gsoc.
>
> What did you do for MediaWiki last year?
>
>> I'm unsure if it would be better to go with an idea that is
>> on the official idea page (vs the "random" idea list), since those
>> might have more interest from the general typo3 community(?)
>
> Well, there is really no "system" to how the ideas are laid out. It
> mostly depends on the original submitter if it's a long description or
> simply a three-word sentence. Thus the positioning is not overly
> indicative regarding "importance" or "interest". :)
>
> Pick what is most interesting for you, that'll keep you motivated.
>
>
> Regards,
> Karsten
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