Google Summer of Code Projects

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Friday 08 April 2011 Apr, Steven Kakoczky wrote:
> Dear mentors, specifically Sebastian Sauer and Casper Boemann,
> 
> I know it's a little late, but I just found out about the Summer of Code a
> few days ago and thought that it was a great excuse for me to finally start
> working on an opensource project. 

Well, you don't need an excuse :-). Every day of the year is a good day to begin hacking on an open source project!

> Since it was short notice for me, I
> figured I'd go for something I'm already familiar with, namely KDE and
> Calligra. To be honest I have never worked on a real world project before,
> but have been working on my Computer Science degree for three years now.
> I've worked a lot with C/C++ and Java and have dabbled in Qt, but I've done
> GUI design with Java Swing. The project that really interested me was
> Implementing notes-support because I use notes/comments a lot in other
> software that I use and think that it is a project within my experience
> level to make a difference on.

The notes project is indeed plenty interesting. And we would love to see you start hacking on it. But it is _really_ late to start writing a proposal and work together with us to refine it to something that stands a chance in the competition with other projects. It's not too late to do the same for the Season of KDE project, or to just get started. We help everyone, whether they are gsoc students or not, just join us on #calligra and we can get you started.

> I would also be interested in finishing up
> the Layout tool or helping to make the References tool. I will be submitting
> applications for these through google as well, but I just wanted to get
> communicating with the mentors now to judge the viability of me being on the
> team right away.

Being on the team has nothing to do with gsoc -- the only thing needed is getting the code and producing patches. 

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