Fwd: Looking for a GSoC mentor

[Matěj Laitl]

On 7. 4. 2013 vedant agarwala wrote:
> Hello Matej,

Hi Vedant,

> Below is the email I posted on the amarok-devel mailing list. I have not
> received any reply from anyone. :( It's been over a week. Please help me
> out. It is the first time I am applying for GSoC so there must be things
> that are up to the mark. Looking forward to your response.

Oh, sorry for not replying, you mail has slipped through. In short, it is 
still too early to look for a mentor [1], but you are very welcome and 
encouraged to work on Amarok junior jobs and other simple bugs to show you'll 
be capable to do a GSoC project.

[1] it is not even official that we will be selected to participate again this
year. Once this is done you will get notified, provided you are subscribed to 
the kde-soc at .kde.org mailing list. Applications can only be done on the official 
Google GSoC web interface and it's still quite a way until then.

Below is the copy of our "official" reply for students applying for GSoC [hi 
Myriam]:

Welcome Vedant,

GSoC 2013 has only just been announced and we are currently creating
the list of ideas for GSoC which will be available as soon as KDE is
accepted as a participating project.

In the mean time I strongly suggest you read the KDE guide [1] first
and get familiar with KDE and its various projects as much as
possible. To be able to select a particular project you need to be
quite familiar with it, so make sure you learn as much as possible in
the mean time, mostly by using KDE and reading the documentation of
the various projects.

Getting not only familiar with the project but also get some first
coding experience and getting acquainted with the KDE developers is a
strongly recommended, so please have a look at the Junior Jobs in
Bugzilla [2]

You should also subscribe to the KDE SoC mailing list [3] where all
announcements regarding GSoC will be made.

Some important information regarding KDEs GSoC planning can be found
on the KDE Community wiki [4]

[1] http://flossmanuals.net/kde-guide/
[2] http:/kde.org/jj
[3] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-soc
[4] http://community.kde.org/GSoC

If you have never worked on Free Software before, here is some
important background information as well as some additional reads we
recommend:

About Free Software: [5]
How to ask questions and communicate: [6], [7] and [8]
Some basic mailing list and IRC etiquette: [9] and [10]

[5]: http://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software
[6]: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
[7]: http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#i-want-2-do-project-tell-me-wat-2-do
[8]: http://whathaveyoutried.com/
[9]: http://www.kde.org/support/mailinglists/
[10]: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IRC/beginners.html

Regards,
		Matěj