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

[Richard Houser]

I would guess #1 is too advanced for almost anyone.  The Office XML
formats effectively contain binary blobs of data "ex. as Microsoft
Word 2000 does it" (I read a few sections of the spec).  It was
designed to block interoperability measures (including the Open
Document Formats).

#2 Sounds a little interesting, but Wine is a little bit scary :(.
Back in the day I used to play EverQuest on WineX (wine fork) and
there were a few times I had to dive into the code to track down a
problem (I was on the beta team).  That code base is harder to deal
with than you would expect, even for a more experienced programmer.

I've seen talk of writing the defragmenter in #3 a few times as well.
I could be mistaken here, but the kernel developers keep pushing it
off because it's not really much of an issue, especially if you keep a
portion of the drive free.  If you want to defragment a Linux
filesystem yourself, you just need to ensure some free space, then
copy and delete each file (preserving attributes of course).  If you
reserve a larger portion for root, you can prevent it from getting
fragmented much in the first place.


On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Steven Sayers <sjsayers93 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>>> 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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