Hi!

I'm Stéphane Maniaci, one of the lucky GNOME students for this summer. I live in Montpellier, France, I'm currently finishing my associate degree/higher national diploma in computer sciences, and I'll turn 20 in July. Things I like include programming, skateboarding, kite-surfing, reading and photography.

This summer I'll be working on Ease, a presentation authoring tool for the GNOME desktop written in Vala/GTK/Clutter. This project is driven by Nate Stedman, my mentor, and here's my feature list on the original proposal :

  • Plugin infrastructure
    • Export plugin (PDF/PNG/OGV)
    • Stock images fetcher from different (free) online sources
  • Presenter tips : chronometer, progress bar, spotlight (as seen in Impressive)
  • Simple effect format (XML/JSON based)
  • Integration with other applications (GIMP/Inkscape/PiTiVi/F-Spot/Jokosher)
  • Translation/Packaging/Documentation
  • GNOME infrastructure tasks : use git.gnome.org, set up a mailing list, a wiki page and such.

Note that this list might slightly change (for the better), as my vision of the project evolves.

Well, that's pretty much it for now, this was just an introduction note, I'll post some further info about this very soon, stay tuned ! Hi to all the GNOME people, to all my fellow GSoC students, and great thanks for letting me in !