For the third and final Advanced FOSS project I have two proposals. The first proposal is to continue working on a project I recently started called libfab. Libfab is a C library that reimplements a few part so the python library fabulous. Fabulous provides some neat command line text formatting tools, as well as a tool to print images to the terminal. I’ve got a rough implementation of both the text formatting, and the image printing features. For Advanced FOSS I would continue cleaning up the code and working on bindings into other languages, such as rust. I’ll be writing a proper blog post about libfab and the plans I have for it in the near future.
- Project Title: libfab
- Short Description: C port of the python library fabulous
- Distribution System: github, and various other systems for the bindings.
- Open hardware Needed: Nothing
- Team members: Me
- Upstream Mentors: Ryan Brown
- License: MIT
For my second proposal I’m going to reuse an older proposal I wrote for project 2. The proposal is for adding functionality to VauxIO. VauxIO currently does limited metadata extraction for PDFs. I want to expand this to other formats and attempt to get more data out of pdfs. This will make it easier to index and find information on the Vaux network as a whole. This project isn’t going to involve any massive change to vaux, instead I will improve a single part of it, the document ingestion engine.
- Project Title: VauxIo Metadata Extraction
- Short Description: Distributed Document Liberation network
- Distribution System: PyPi
- Open Hardware Needed: Single raspberry pi
- Team Members: Me
- Upstream Mentors: Tim Duffy
- License: MIT