Google Summer of Code: Ready Your Application

[Nick Gasson]

Hi all,

I'm a final-year Computer Systems & Software Engineering student from 
the University of York (England). I've been using Amarok for quite a 
while now, and I'm really keen to help out with the development (as part 
of SoC in particular).

 From the projects on the suggestions wiki, I'm most interested in 
working on the playlist functionality in Amarok 2. I use smart/dynamic 
playlists a lot in 1.4 and it would be great to have them working (and 
improved!) in 2.0 too. This also seems to be a good project to get a 
decent understanding of the code base. I'm not too sure on the specifics 
yet, as I haven't tried compiling 2.0.

I'm also quite interested in improving Amarok's integration and 
compatibility with non-KDE desktop environments and window managers (I'm 
a fluxbox user ;-).

I'm fairly experienced in C++ and have used it in an industrial 
placement, but I haven't done any Qt yet (although I have used other GUI 
toolkits) -- hopefully this won't be too much of a problem?


Thanks
Nick