GSoC: May 05 - May 18

Published on May 18, 2014.

This is one of the reports about my GSoC project and cover the last two weeks of the "Community bonding".

Talks

Not directly related to GSoC, in this two weeks I had travel to give a talk about MathML <../11/fisl15_mathml>.

Bugs

I created tree bugs:

• Bug 1011477 -[keyboard] multi-character value mixed with alternate keys
• Bug 1011482 -[keyboard] need value and compositeKey fields for alt keys
• Bug 1011661 -[keyboard] requesting uppercase and lowercase for compositekey

And sent a patch for 1011661.

Typing Math

Published on May 17, 2014.

In this post I will try to explain some of the UX problems that I need to solve as soon as possible for my project.

Description

In LaTeX the solution of quadratic equation is represented by :

x = \frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4 a c}}{2 a}

and will be render as

MathML May Meeting

Published on May 16, 2014.

This is a report about the Mozilla MathML May IRC Meeting (see the announcement here). The topics of the meeting can be found in this PAD (local copy of the PAD <pad.txt>) and the IRC log (local copy of the IRC log <irc.txt>) is also available.

In the last 5 weeks the MathML team closed 23 bugs, worked in others 6 and open 7 new ones (this are only the ones tracked by Bugzilla).

Top 10 Fox's Photos at FISL

Published on May 14, 2014.

Here you will find the top 10 Fox's Photos that I take during FISL.

Software Carpentry bootcamp at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande

Published on May 14, 2014.

At the begin of this week Software Carpentry ran the first workshop at Latin America. This is a review of the workshop that took place at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG) due the hard work of Laboratório de Estatística Ambiental (mainly Professor Fernando de Pol Mayer and Professor Paul Gerhard Kinas).