<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Harsh Thakkar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:harsh9t@gmail.com" target="_blank">harsh9t@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Dear KDE & KDE-SOC Community,</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">It is a pleasure to learn that KDE-SOK 2014 has been announced a few days ago with a vast variety of projects. I am a keen user of open-source software, but haven't been able to contribute since a long time. I would like to take the KDE-SOK opportunity to repay the wonderful community. </div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">I am interested in contributing to the KDE-EDU project "Pairs". I find it really interesting and crucial as children are the most valuable resources to the society. Pairs focuses on brain stimulating games and is useful not only to children but to almost any age group of people. I use it almost daily for my daily brain exercise. </div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">I would like to propose a project as a mentor to the pairs project. I have a few things in mind:</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">1. Porting the Pairs project to QT 5. [It has been ported to QT 4x version link- <a href="http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=pairs.git" target="_blank">http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=pairs.git</a>]</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">- Transiting to Qt 5 from Qt 4.x is not expected to be significant, but the “modularization” of the Qt code base requires some amount of changes to project configuration, such as use of “headers”, and configuration of project build settings (such as changes to the *.pro files).</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">-This would require knowledge of qml, qt5 and basic C++.</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">2. In the latest version pushed by Aleix Pol and Marco Calignano, there are a few TODO's they proposed, i would like to include them into this idea and solve the remainders. These include:</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">a) Adding scroll bar in-case of more than one player is involved to eliminate the over-lapping on the display</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">b) Getting rid of window border</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">c) In the game Logic and SoundLogic there is a need to highlight the first selected card of each turn </div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Looking forward to hear from you people!</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Some handy resources - <a href="http://qt-project.org/wiki/Transition_from_Qt_4.x_to_Qt5" target="_blank">http://qt-project.org/wiki/Transition_from_Qt_4.x_to_Qt5</a> and </div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#009900" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:25px"><br>Affectionate regards,<br></span></font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,153,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Harsh Vrajesh Thakkar</span></div><div><font color="#009900" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Research Scholar |</font><font color="#009900" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">BioNLP, Information Retrieval</font><br></div><div><font color="#009900" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information Communication Technology, Gandhinagar </font></div><div><a href="http://www.facebook.com/harsh9t" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif" target="_blank"><font color="#3333ff">Facebook</font></a><font style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif" color="#009900"> |</font><font style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif" color="#3366ff"><a href="http://in.linkedin.com/in/thakkarharsh" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> |<a href="https://twitter.com/Harsh9t" target="_blank">Twitter</a> |<a href="http://harshthakkar.in/" target="_blank">Web</a> </font></div><div><font face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">"</font><span><font color="#993300">People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. 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<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Hi Harsh,</div><div class="gmail_extra">I didn't notice you wanted to mentor. I don't think it's acceptable to have somebody who hasn't contributed beforehand as a mentor. I think it breaks the mentorship promise that the mentor will be an experienced KDE developer.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">On the other hand, if are interested, you can contribute to Pairs too.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Aleix</div></div>