Hi all, I'm Aaron Xiao from Peking University, Beijing, China. I'm interested in the i18n projects for GSoC 2014, especially the <UniversalLanguageSelector fonts for Chinese wikis>. I'm writing proposal for it currently. It will be finished in 2 or 3 days.
I have contacted DChan and Liangent a week ago. Here are some personal information copied from the previous self-introduction mail. Hope to see your feedback, especially when I finish the proposal :)
*About me: * 2007~2011 B.S. in Computer Science @ Peking University 2011~2014 M.S. in Information Security @ Peking University See more information on [1].
*Related Experience:* [GSoC] I have participated in GSoC twice, and have contributed code to Wireshark, Blender, OGRE. So I'm familiar with open source culture, and know a bit about how to play well with the community. [I18N] Specially, my work in GSoC 2011 was to build the i18n system for Blender, See [2] for details. We also built the translators' community. I'm still one of the admin currently. See [3]. [PHP, Web frontend] I was the admin of http://zone.pku.edu.cn before, but it cannot be visited outside the campus. Some other web apps I developed: [4] using PHP, [5] using Django. So I know a little about web techs. I can learn new knowledge fast if I need it. [Chinese characters] Of course, my mother tongue :)
*About Time:* - For Proposal Actually I just finished the FOSS ASIA conference on 3rd Mar. And now I'm taking a trip around the Southeast Asia. So I don't have much time before 13th. But I'll try my best to discuss the project with you and learn about the information. Then submit the proposal ASAP. - For the Project I'll graduate on early July, and then wait for my H1B visa to come into force in October. So my full-time window is from July to September. According to the GSoC schedule, I can only work as a part-time job before mid-term, and work for full-time before final-term. But I promise to finish the feature on-time, and push it forward to be released finally ( Even after the GSoC event, of course. ) - After the Event I'm interested in I18N projects. I'm always trying to promote great open source projects to Chinese, as well as other non-English users. So maybe I can deal with the other i18n related things after the event, and keep going along with the community :)
[1] http://www.linkedin.com/in/xiaoxiangquan [2] http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Xiaoxiangquan/GoogleSummerOfCode/2011... [3] https://projects.blender.org/projects/bf-translations [4] http://apps.weibo.com/myfunds [5] http://jipinz.sinaapp.com
Final Report(2011-08-22) To be continued
Was it? I don't understand what that project was about in the end, a summary would be nice.
Nemo
I think it's a kind of <Loading Font on Demand>. There are thousands of Chinese characters, but we use only 3000 of them in daily life. To a specific wiki page, maybe only 200 are used. So cutting the font file will save a lot of time.
Another feature is about glyph-connection. Some rarely-used characters are not included in the database, then we cannot display it. In these cases we can ask the user to contribute glyph.
Regards,
2014-03-14 22:17 GMT+08:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com:
Final Report(2011-08-22) To be continued
Was it? I don't understand what that project was about in the end, a summary would be nice.
Nemo
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I was talking of your 2011 GSoC project, it sounds potentially interesting but your link doesn't bring to any final report so I don't understand what was done.
Nemo
ahh, sorry I missed the quoted part... Actually Blender wanted final report in a video format, so I didn't copy it to the dev-report there. You can see <How to change between different languages> at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3nGUba27y0
The finished features are: - Font loading...done - Handle strings in gerneral C code...done - Handle strings in makesrna code...done - Handle strings in Python code...done - BlenderCN helps translate a full Simplified Chinese version...done - Language selection interface...done - Documents: Screenshots, Implementation Design, Developing Reports...Done
And unfinished feature is: - Be able to get input in international languages... (It's really touch)
2014-03-14 23:04 GMT+08:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com:
I was talking of your 2011 GSoC project, it sounds potentially interesting but your link doesn't bring to any final report so I don't understand what was done.
Nemo
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And after the final term, I continued working with the community. Finally the i18n system released along with Blender 2.60 in Oct of that year.
2014-03-14 23:15 GMT+08:00 xiangquan xiao xiaoxiangquan@gmail.com:
ahh, sorry I missed the quoted part... Actually Blender wanted final report in a video format, so I didn't copy it to the dev-report there. You can see <How to change between different languages> at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3nGUba27y0
The finished features are:
- Font loading...done
- Handle strings in gerneral C code...done
- Handle strings in makesrna code...done
- Handle strings in Python code...done
- BlenderCN helps translate a full Simplified Chinese version...done
- Language selection interface...done
- Documents: Screenshots, Implementation Design, Developing Reports...Done
And unfinished feature is:
- Be able to get input in international languages... (It's really touch)
2014-03-14 23:04 GMT+08:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com:
I was talking of your 2011 GSoC project, it sounds potentially interesting
but your link doesn't bring to any final report so I don't understand what was done.
Nemo
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Hi all, I have just finished my proposal: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Xiaoxiangquan/UniversalLanguageSelector_...
But it's still a little pale in the key parts, because I haven't learned much about the ULS implementation.
Any advice or comments are more than welcomed and very much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Regards,
2014-03-14 23:22 GMT+08:00 xiangquan xiao xiaoxiangquan@gmail.com:
And after the final term, I continued working with the community. Finally the i18n system released along with Blender 2.60 in Oct of that year.
2014-03-14 23:15 GMT+08:00 xiangquan xiao xiaoxiangquan@gmail.com:
ahh, sorry I missed the quoted part...
Actually Blender wanted final report in a video format, so I didn't copy it to the dev-report there. You can see <How to change between different languages> at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3nGUba27y0
The finished features are:
- Font loading...done
- Handle strings in gerneral C code...done
- Handle strings in makesrna code...done
- Handle strings in Python code...done
- BlenderCN helps translate a full Simplified Chinese version...done
- Language selection interface...done
- Documents: Screenshots, Implementation Design, Developing
Reports...Done
And unfinished feature is:
- Be able to get input in international languages... (It's really touch)
2014-03-14 23:04 GMT+08:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com:
I was talking of your 2011 GSoC project, it sounds potentially
interesting but your link doesn't bring to any final report so I don't understand what was done.
Nemo
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