Egon, I'm giving a talk at Google on Tuesday, and I'll be mentioning a possible GSOC project - can I pick your brains about this here? - Matthew Todd

Sure :) - Egon Willighagen

The Synaptic Leap uses Drupal, which uses FCK or TinyMCE editors to create the html (xml?). One enters text, and one can always insert a hyperlink to e.g. Chemspider to reveal that certain words refer to molecules. How useful would it be to have a button in these editors that performs “this word is a molecule – please understand this when you make the html” or, better, “scan this entry I have just written for chemical content and understand it”. This is like PMR’s Chem4Word, or Chemicalize.org, but for blog html editors. - Matthew Todd

Questions: 1) Is this new? 2) would it be useful? 3) If yes to both, could this be a GSOC project? - Matthew Todd

This sounds similar to the GreaseMoneky script that was written in the past - though that considered web pages as opposed to text being written on the fly - Rajarshi Guha

Yeah, that should be a suitable project... is Drupal the mentoring organization? - Egon Willighagen

Mentoring organization? - Matthew Todd

Yes, that's the name of the organization that will supervise (mentor) the students... Drupal, NESCent, Eclipse, KDE, Gnome, etc - Egon Willighagen