<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Sans Serif'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">Hi Alejandro,<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>your application was on time indeed.<br>
When you log in to the SoC web interface you can see your application.<br>
There was a question for you which you haven't answered yet.<br>
At the moment there is no-one on the KDE-Edu team that feels able to mentor your application, so asking on kde-devel was maybe a good idea.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Regards,<br>
Frederik<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>On Friday 03 April 2009 14:03:22 Alejandro Exojo wrote:<br>
> Hi.<br>
><br>
> Maybe it's a little late, but if you don't mind, I want to introduce myself<br>
> and my idea for a Summer of Code application.<br>
><br>
> Mi name is Alex, I'm a Electrical Engineering student in Universitat<br>
> Autonoma de Barcelona. I've been using free software in general, and KDE in<br>
> particular since a long time ago (about 2002/2003). I've been moderately<br>
> involved with KDE during this years. I did translations to Spanish, and<br>
> helped the rest of the team where I could (committing their translations to<br>
> CVS/SVN mostly). I also packaged two KDE-based applications for Debian<br>
> (konserve and kxmleditor), and I did some patches here and there, and some<br>
> where accepted (at least one in kicker and other in knotes that I can<br>
> remember).<br>
><br>
> I've been lurking many mailinglists during this years, and I've always<br>
> wanted to be more involved with KDE. I've done coding almost only with<br>
> Qt/KDE 3, so I will need to refresh my skills, though. :-)<br>
><br>
> My idea for the SOC, is a simple to use but complete Smith Chart<br>
> application that can help students (and professionals) of electrical<br>
> engineering that work with this tool (it's usually called RF engineering or<br>
> microwave engineering). This chart is a nomogram, that is, is like a ruler<br>
> with two scales in it (e.g. centimeters and inches), and you can use it to<br>
> convert from one unit to the other without any calculation. The Smith Chart<br>
> is quite more complex and powerful, of course. In this days, is no longer<br>
> used to make the calculations, because calculators and computers make this<br>
> a charm, but is still widely used to represent points, paths and regions<br>
> (some components move the characteristics of the circuit from one point to<br>
> the other). Simulation programs like Qucs (free software) or Agilent's ADS<br>
> (proprietary) use the Smith Chart as one way to plot the data of the<br>
> simulation.<br>
><br>
> My application would be way simpler than a simulation program. It will only<br>
> plot a nice Smith Chart, and allow the user to trace these paths, points<br>
> and regions in it with a convenient interface. It should also feature a way<br>
> to add components, so you can add the element to the circuit, and see its<br>
> effect on it. It's also important to allow the user to edit the values of<br>
> the existing components in a straightforward way, because it's key to the<br>
> design of matching networks.<br>
><br>
> I will post the complete details this afternoon (CEST) in the SOC site. I<br>
> just want to explain potential mentors that even if the purpose of the<br>
> application maybe seems quite specialized and hard to understand to a<br>
> person that never has done any high frequency work, I think that this will<br>
> be no problem at all. My main concerns about developing it are not related<br>
> with this part, and I think I can handle it well, and make it easy to<br>
> understand to a mentor who knows nothing about electrical engineering.<br>
><br>
> I'm sending this message to both kde-devel and kde-edu because I think it's<br>
> important that this kind of applications (university level) are added to<br>
> the KDE EDU project. I think that both the Summer of Code and applications<br>
> that are attractive to university students are a great way of making young<br>
> people aware of free and open source software.<br>
><br>
> Greetings.<br>
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