[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] [Tuxmath-devel] gsoc ideas

[Brendan Luchen]

Hey Victor,

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Victor Tozo de Carvalho
<victortozo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have sent an email before but I didn't introduce myself, so I'll start
> with that.
>
> I am a forth year student of Computer Science at University of Campinas
> (Unicamp).
> I have learned and developed in C in my first two years of college,
> including an internship with embedded systems.

Pleased to make your acquaintance. I'm a third-year CS student at
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). I like C too!

> Some students from Unicamp have submited applications in GSoC past 3 years
> and they motivate us to come in the universe of free software that I
> participate since 2007 as an user when I removed windows from my computer.
> As a free software developer, I am currently working on a project called
> TelEduc and it is about e-learning. I use mostly php, javascript and ajax in
> this project.

Our website could use another developer...:)

> About Tux4kids project, I have started studying SDL a bit before entering
> the mailist in order to understand well the code of both tuxtype and
> tuxmath, wich are the projects that i'm interested.
>
> I studied a bit of SVG to understand the problem of the time consumption at
> the startup in tuxmath and I enjoyed the idea of using threads as a solution
> but I'm still studying how is the best way to do it whereas we should extend
> the use of SVG for all graphical elements.
> I wonder if there is a mentor for this project, with solid ideas to discuss
> with me and define a scope of this application to apply in 3 months.
> In my first email about SVG, I got no anwser... this still a valid idea ?

It's still a valid idea and an important goal; Sorry to keep you
waiting, GSoC means lots of email for such a small group of devs. What
are your ideas for threaded SVG loading?

> While I was playing tuxtype, I found really cool the background images
> changing during the game but I believe that these images could have some
> connection with the type of library is being used to play.
> For example, lets syas that the teacher have created an library (words)
> about mammals. He might like that as wallpaper, mammals appear instead of
> landscapes.
>
> My idea would be to change the 'edit words list' to an 'edit library', with
> a good interface for the creation of libraries including adding images to
> use as background when that library is selected.

That's an unusual idea; I like it! New features like this are of
somewhat low priority, however.

> Finally, I would like to know where should I send some patches that i have
> written for both tuxtype and tuxmath. The Sourceforge seems a bit abandoned
> and I didn't found in Alioth a place to send them.

Yep, send it all to tux4kids.gsoc2010 at gmail.com .

Best,
Brendan