[help] You opinion on an project idea for the Google Summer of Code 2007

[jonathan le vigouroux]

Hi.

I am a 22 years old french student willing to join the GSoC 2007.

I
have a project in my minds and I'm looking for a mentoring organisation
which could help me out. I thought it might be GNU Project.

Linux is complicated even for the most advanced users. I would like
to help making it easier. My project is to create a program between the
Linux Manual (Man) and an HowTo. This program will be available for
every Linux distributions and will be specific for each one. This
program will allow the user to search information by typing an action
or an objective (unlike the Man where you need to know the command name
to access its information page). For instance, the user wants to change
his IP address. With my program, he would type "change ip address" or
"modify ip" (or something else) and then access an off-line tutorial
that would shows him how to do that. So my program search system will
be "objectives-oriented" or "action-oriented".

At the moment, I'm writting down my application form so I
won't explain the whole ambitions I have for this project. But to make
it quick, I want to create a concept based on the Wikipedia model for
the tutorials provided by my program.

I would like to know if a community is already working on a
similar project, if GNU Project could be interested in being my GSoC's
mentor or if I am asking the right organisation.

Thanks for your help.

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Toxix