Fwd: Introduction

[Michael Goffioul]

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From: Michael Goffioul <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: Introduction
To: fgnievinski <address@hidden>

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:17 AM, fgnievinski <address@hidden> wrote:

Tharindu Lakmal wrote
> Hi,
>
> I'm Lakmal Muthugama from University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka.
>
> I'm interested in doing a GSoc project under Octave. I'm interested in
> doing *Tex Latex Mark up project *mentioned in the list.
>
> I downloaded the octave source code and was able to successfully build it.
> Currently work on few hacks.
>
> Thanks
> --
> *Lakmal Muthugama,*
> *Undergraduate,*
> *Department of Computer Science and Engineering,*
> *University of Moratuwa,*
> *Sri Lanka.*

Dear Lakmal,

Great to hear from you. It's always good to have new contributors.

Please read carefully this section:
<http://wiki.octave.org/GSoC_Project_Ideas#Steps_Toward_a_Successful_Application>
to find out what is expected from GSoC applicants.

You mentioned interest in "Tex Latex Mark up project":
<http://wiki.octave.org/SoC_Project_Ideas#TeX.2FLaTeX_markup>
Do you have more specific questions about the content of this page?

It's recommended that you try one of the very short projects available at:
<http://wiki.octave.org/Short_projects>

After that, you could demonstrate your debugging skills tackling a less
trivial bug:
<http:savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=octave>

Please don't hesitate to ask for help, here or on the IRC:
<http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=octave>

This was also the topic of a GSoC project last year. There is a partial implementation, but it needs to be completed and integrated into octave code base. The student's repository can be found here:

http://inversethought.com/hg/octave-lojdl

This should be the starting point of the project.

Michael.