I am very much happy while writing this post. My project ” Enhancement of Text Filter in Scribus ” is announced officially by the Scribus Team. Also, I am offered a fellowship; Nixi via Sarai will be funding me this summer for my project. Thanks to Mr. Gora Mohanty,Christoph Schäfer and Sarai for this great surprise !

Thomas Zastrow , lecturer of computer science and computer linguistics at the university of Tübingen/Germany and long-time Scribus contributor, will mentor me in this project.

Now, a little about my work. My project aims at the enhancement of the Text Filter in Scribus so that it can import InDesign Exchange Files, InDesign Snippets, XTags, plain XML etc., to create a new dialog widget that can handle the global preferences for import/export of these XML based file formats. It will also implement a new UI for the Text Filter to make it more flexible and consistent with other Scribus dialogs.

In short, I’ll be dealing with some proprietory XML file formats this summer.

A short/rough roadmap of my project is available here

Thanks to Scribus Team, Sarai and NIXI and I hope I can complete this project successfully in the given time limit ( It is a four month project unlike GSoC, so I will be busy with this project till September ! )

Bottom Line: I’ve another contribution to be done after my work with Scribus. This project is Community Integration work for KStars. Thanks to Akarsh Simha for assigining community integration work to me! More details on this work will be posted soon.