As some of you already know, my proposal to crosscompile OpenOffice.org for Windows in Linux using mingw32 has been accepted for the Google Summer of Code 2009. That gives me the chance to work with a group of very talented hackers (and in the case of my mentor, very “guapo” too) in what is probably the FOSS project of my life. I hope my work will be useful not only for the hackers around go-oo, but also for the mainstream version of OOo, which is the version we are currently using for the Catalan translation.
Having say that, I have to admit that I am a special student: I am almost 30 years old, I have been around the OpenOffice.org project for 8 years (at the time I built OOo 1.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris, but I started working on it way before 1.0) and I know personally most of the people I’ll be working with. I also have almost 10 years of professional experience in software development in many platforms and several languages, mainly C++ and Python. Fortunately for me, I decided to study Journalism and Cinema instead of Computer Science back at the end of the 20th century, because I knew my fate was to study computer science years later to be able to spend the summer of 2009 with some of the best people of Geneva and surroundings.
Happy hacking!