Presentation Application Overhaul

• Marius Dumitru Florea
• Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)

175 hours (Medium size project)

The idea behind the Presentation Application is simple: be able to write nice presentations (slide shows) using wiki syntax. In other words: be able to write a presentation as a wiki page. The presentation slides are generated from the sections of the wiki page. When a wiki page is displayed its wiki syntax is converted to HTML5. The Presentation Application provides a special view mode (with a dedicated skin) where the generated HTML5 matches one of the predefined presentation templates.

As part of the GSoC the student should:

• Update the application code to work with the most recent version of XWiki (7.4+)
• Add support for more HTML5 presentation templates, such as:
  • https://code.google.com/archive/p/io-2012-slides/
  • https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js
  • https://github.com/impress/impress.js
  • http://imakewebthings.com/deck.js
  • https://github.com/shower/shower
• Make sure the presentations work on mobile
• Make sure the presentations can be exported as PDF
• Add support for more wiki syntax elements (e.g. Code Macro, Chart Macro, etc.)
• Create an user interface to manage the presentations (list existing presentations, create new presentation, edit/delete a presentation)
• Move code from Groovy to Java

The developer should have good knowledge of HTML5, JavaScript and CSS. For wiki syntax to HTML5 conversion a decent level of Java is needed.

2016

Proposed