[libredwg] Student introduction (GSOC)

[Pero Brbora]

Hi,
My name is Pero Brbora, student of Applied/Business Computing,  
University of Dubrovnik, Croatia <http://www.unidu.hr>. I'm full time  
empolyed in Civil/Construction/Cadastral Surveying industry and  
part-time student, so CAD related projects were on my GSOC look up  
list. Since I already commited few patches to libredwg project (under  
my alias Ivan Radic) I decided to introduce myself to you.
I cloned libredwg source to my computer (Ubuntu, I have access to  
Windows machine too) browsed it, created doxygen documentation and  
compiled it. Unfortunatelly 'make check' doesn't work (segfaults 40 of  
40) so I read examples (I have attached patch for testsvg2.c which  
fixes segfault when you start program without arguments).
Looking through the code I noticed MACROS. Lots of them, are there any  
plans to get rid of them? This would really make a difference for  
everyone who is trying to understand libredwg source code.
I went through the list of ideas for libredwg and will probably use  
dwg write support in my proposal, although I will change it to version  
2000 only (just to be sure I can finish it on time). My plan is to use  
github as a simple yet effective way for you to monitor my work  
through CHANGELOG (code) and CHANGEBLOG (details). I haven't used  
github before but it shouldn't be hard to set it up. I understand GNU  
policy about "open software" and will comply with it (signing), also  
coding with GNU coding standard is not a problem. Time for coding is  
not a problem as I can code at work (on slow days when we are not  
outdoors surveying) and I'm on leave for the whole August. Of course  
I'm taking this project and coding in general very seriously.
So, what do you think?

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