[GLLUG] Looking for some open source projects (local) to aid in

[Steven Sayers]

Those seem a bit too advanced for me sadly .

On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 8:34 PM, David Lee Lambert <davidl at lmert.com> wrote:

> Steven Sayers wrote:
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>> I've been studying programming quite a lot lately and I was wondering if
>> there were any programming projects any of you were engaged in that I could
>> assist with, I'm most familiar with java.
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> I can't say I'm "engaged with" any open-source projects,  as I'd have to
> get permission from my current employer's lawyers (and they're a big company
> with a lot of lawyers) to submit a public contribution anywhere.  However,
>  I do have a few pet projects I'd like to see implemented,  and I could send
> you my notes on some of them off-list if you might be able to do something
> with them.  A few are:
>
> 1.  Add Office 2007 (multiple XML in a ZIP, like OpenOffice) or Office 2003
> XML import/export support to JExcelAPI.  (The current maintainers have said
> they have no intention of doing so themselves)
> 2.  Add legacy sound support (win16 audio functions and better PC speaker
> emulation) to Wine.
> 3.  Defragmentation support for ext2/3/4fs.  Or, at least, a nice graphical
> display of the way in which a filesystem is fragmented.   (The graphics
> could be done in Java,  but there's probably a need for a new kernel
> interface to actually move parts of files around.)
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