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[Bertrand Rousseau <bertrand.rousseau@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Paulo,

This comes very late, but I've been quite busy lately since I need to
handle a lot of different things. Sorry for that.

I'd like to give yourself a personal thanks for your work during your
GSoc. You've done a terrific job here. I'm still amazed that we have
now two wonderful features I could only dream about before ;-) :
plugins and geolocalization. These are major features, and we can
already feel that it opened new paths for GTG.

Hope you'll stay around here, it certainly been great to work with you
during those three months! I don't know if you planned any vacation
now that you're done, so have a nice time if you do.

Anyway, see you around to get many other things GNOME! ;-)

Bertrand

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Paulo Cabido<paulo.cabido@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> My main goal was achieved, I added Geolocalized tasks to Getting Things
> Gnome!.
>
> I decided with Lionel Dricot, my mentor, that the best thing to do would
> be a plugin engine/system for GTG and add the geolocalization via a
> plugin. So I went this way and added geolocalized tasks to GTG by:
>
>      * Creating a plugin engine to be able to make the plugin
>      * Creating a module, python-geoclue, to facilitate the integration
>        of Geoclue in python projects
>              * I Made some geoclue examples in python that ended up
>                inspiring others to use Geoclue :-)
>              * I spoke with Keith Preston from the Geoclue Project and
>                this module will be integrated with Geoclue. It is
>                currently in a personal LP branch [0].
>      * Using libchamplain
>              * I also made one extra demo that I think is useful, of
>                how to move a marker.
>
> The plugin is available at in the GTG main development branch (trunk)
> [1].
>
> Throe these steps I achieved the final plugin. And in the way I learned
> some new things like the D-Bus messaging system, GTK programing methods
> (specially callbacks), python signals, loading modules/classes in
> python, how a plugin system works, launchpad/bazaar that I never had
> used before, etc.
>
> This week I will be finishing the documentation, instructions of how to
> use/install, adding proper comments to my code and packing/hosting the
> python-geoclue module.
> I'll finish the GTG Plugin howto page and create api docs for both the
> plugin engine and python-geoclue.
>
> I wanted to build a GNOME applet for geolocalization but the Bonobo page
> discourages those who want to do so [2]. I will wait for GNOME 3.0 and
> use the new shell to make it.
>
> Another goal achieved was the community bonding. This isn't a real goal
> and some times it's not easy, but I managed to integrate (very well I
> think) and now I feel like I belong here. I'm officially part of the
> Getting Things Gnome dev team! :-)
>
> SoC was a great experience and I have only good things to say about it.
> I want to thank Lionel Dricot, my mentor, for doing such a great job.
> Bertrand Rousseau, who was like a co-mentor to me, always answering all
> my questions and helping me when I needed his help. Jonathan Barnoud and
> Kalle Persson (who made some great icons for my plugin!) and in a
> general way the hole GNOME community who I bothered in IRC, some times
> with stupid questions (eheh). Thank you very much.
>
> This is not a farewell e-mail, I'll keep up and continue working on
> these projects, specially on GTG (hope we can get it officially in GNOME
> in a near future) so you can expect to see me around.
>
> [0] https://code.launchpad.net/~pcabido/+junk/pygeoclue
> [1] https://code.launchpad.net/~gtg/gtg/trunk
> [2] http://live.gnome.org/Bonobo
>
> Regards,
> Paulo Cabido
>
> PS: During this week I will also try to make some posts on my blog about
> the SoC experiences.
>
>
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