On 6/15/05, Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> wrote:

Cool, it would be great to get your help no matter the outcome from SOC.
First of all, could you put your .INX file up at that URL where you put
the extension for the test interface for OCAL.

Jon

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:16 -0400, Greg Steffensen wrote:
> Hey, thanks a ton for the feedback.  I wish I'd showed it to you
> earlier; as it is, I submitted too late to incorporate your
> suggestions.  Still, for the record, if accepted, I'd implement all
> the features I described, except for the ones I specifically said I
> wasn't sure I could do.  By those, I mean placing clipart in the
> document near the drop location of a drag-and-drop operation, and full
> Gnome HIG compliance (I intend to try to implement both of those, but
> don't know enough about them to say for certain that I'll be able to).
> I'd help to improve the OCAL backend and API if that's ok with them,
> but none of the client features I described depend on server changes;
> I'd implement everything even without OCAL access.  Also, since no one
> seemed to have a problem with implementing it as an extension, I'd do
> that, unless a mentor objected later.  Finally, I'd provide integrated
> access to local clipart in addition to OCAL (this would be independent
> of the local caching feature I described).
>
> Also, just so you know, the first title in my app was supposed to be a
> joke :).  Thanks again,
>
> Greg
>
>
> On 6/15/05, Jon Phillips <jon@...235... > wrote:
>         On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:54 +1000, Michael Wybrow wrote:
>         > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Greg Steffensen wrote:
>         > >
>         > > Hi, I'm getting my application in really late, and Google
>         isn't working
>         > > for some reason. My name is Greg Steffensen, I'm an
>         undergrad at the
>         > > University of Richmond, and here's the text of my
>         application:
>         >
>         > The reason Google won't be working is that your proposal
>         text is too long
>         > their submission form.  They have stated that the
>         application needs to be
>         > less than 9K.  You can either cut it down to less than the
>         limit, or put
>         > the full text up on a webpage and provide a link to that as
>         your
>         > submission.
>
>         I would recommend cutting it down to this structure, with 5
>         paragraphs
>         max:
>
>         1. Intro and sum up all ideas
>         2. explain the problem
>         3. explain your proposed solution
>         4. explain your proposed timeline
>         5. conclude
>
>         At the end include a 4-6 sentence bio with a link to your
>         website.
>
>         That is solid and will cut to the chase.
>
>         jon
>
>         >
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