[Chandler-dev] Google Summer of Code

[Travis Vachon]

Hi Avner

Glad to hear you're excited!

To get up to speed on past Chandler NLP work I'd check out:

http://code-bear.com/code/parsedatetime/ (natural language date/time  
parsing)
http://chandlerproject.org/bin/view/Journal/NLP (Journal of Desktop  
client NLP project)

The idea on the SoC project ideas page definitely leans toward making  
something useful for the web side of Chandler, so you might also look  
into information on web development. A good place to start might be  
the Django (a server side webapp framework) or Dojo Toolkit (a client  
side Javascript toolkit) websites here:

http://djangoproject.com
http://dojotoolkit.org

We use Dojo extensively in the web ui, and Django is a good example of  
a tool used to build web services.

The three widgets listed on the ideas page (search, table, and month  
view) would also make great desktop widgets, and in fact might  
leverage similar technologies as their web based counterparts.

Please feel free to ask here or ping me privately if you have any  
other questions related to OSAF and SoC 2008.

All the best,

Travis