Hello students!

[Aman Kumar Gupta]

Hi,
I have been involved with KDE since the last 2 years. Here's a short
article of my experience with KDE student programs.

I was first selected in Season of KDE 2018 where I developed a block
programming activity with the GUI and the algorithm interpreter, under the
mentorship of Johnny Jazeix. I successfully completed the project and
passed the program.

I decided to continue contributing and helping other student contributors
by reviewing their patches for GCompris.

Along the way, I applied for GSoC 2018 and I got selected. There I built
robust piano music composer and sheet music APIs, inspired by Minuet and
MuseScore, and extended it to develop 4 piano simulator activities, which
were one of the major ones missing to reach a full port (version 1.0). I
also developed a file manager and integrated with all the configurable
activities to allow the users to manage their saved creations.

Then I continued contributing to the community and guiding newcomers. I
became a mentor in GCi 2018 where I mentored around 75 students which
resulted in completion of 80 tasks including coding tasks, installation of
kde apps, community outreach tasks etc.

I also became a mentor in GSoC 2019 for the project "One step closer to
1.0" and the student successfully followed the timeline and passed all
three evaluations.

In 2019, I attended Akademy for the 1st time (after missing it in 2018 due
to personal reasons) and it was a really awesome experience meeting
everyone in-person whom I've known and worked with, only on IRC since the
last 2 years.
I also gave a talk in the students showcase, co-hosted a BoF with Timothee
Giet and co-hosted a BoF on KDE student programs with Caio, Valorie and
Bhushan.

Me, along with other contributors from India are planning to decide a venue
and host conf.kde.in either in 2019 or 2020. Hope we can make it happen :)

Cheers,
Aman

On Wed 11 Sep, 2019, 3:49 PM Valorie Zimmerman, <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> We've been meeting some of you GSoC /SoK students personally at Akademy,
> which is super! I with all of you were here. We want to present you and
> your work to the community soon, now that you've had a chance to relax
> briefly (I hope). So from each of you please send me a few sentences about
> you and your work, and if you like, what your GSoC experience was like.
> Please attach or link to at least one high-quality image: of you or a
> screenshot or other image of your work. More are better so that the editors
> can choose.
>
> We'll be asking for some feedback from your mentors as well. Please give
> us some words we can *quote*. We want to hear your voice, see your face,
> and what you did!
>
> These articles will be short and be published every day we have one ready,
> so please begin now to collect your thoughts.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Valorie
>
> --
> http://about.me/valoriez - pronouns: she/her
>
>
>
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