Lot of news to report since last time. Our GSoC students have made incredible progress on their chosen projects, and are starting to make progress that we can show you!
First off -
张文杰 (Wenjie Zhang).
The last we heard from him, he was awaiting his Sony Reader, which was unfortunately delayed by the Sichuan earthquake. However, since finally getting his Sony Reader, his progress has been impressive, barring a few obstacles such as a bricked device! Thankfully, Roxfan and dottedmag came to his rescue and managed to obtain technical documents which helped resurrect his Sony Reader from certain death! Moving on, Wenjie is now attempting to get a basic kernel to boot on the Sony Reader.
Ondřej Herman
Ondřej (Ondra) has been making rapid progress on getting OI to run on the Cybook hardware, with nearly all function of the Cybook working. So far, the Cybook buttons, sound and SD storage works. However, the sound drivers, and detecting battery capacity needs to be worked on. At this rate, Ondra may be on his way to being the first GSoC graduate in the history of OpenInkpot! But fear not - Ondra has no intention of resting once he's done, and looks set to become a very valued contributor to the OpenInkpot project!
Finally but not least, Alex Kerner.
Alex (LunohoD) has been making very visible progress with the user interface that will eventually be the face of OpenInkpot. If you have been following the progress of OpenInkpot, you will remember that LunohoD works on EFL as the graphical library for OpenInkpot - On the left, you can see the EFL theming preference pane. LunohoD has been making rapid progress with EFL, and the port is rapidly nearing completion. With this nearly out of the way, LunohoD is preparing to move on to porting FBReader to OpenInkpot.
Moving onwards - a recent OI contributor, Marc Lajoie (quickhand) chipped in with some extremely impressive contributions to OpenInkpot - a bookshelf front-end!
Without further ado, I introduce to you - Madshelf!
Madshelf was written in a matter of days by quickhand, with help from LunohoD and other seasoned OI programmers.However, Madshelf is lacking a book reader application - which LunohoD is working hard to rectify.
To conclude for this month, here is a video that LunohoD created to demonstrate Madshelf... Enjoy!
