[dot] 40 Students to work on KDE during GSoC 2007

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1176336589/

From: Daniel Molkentin <molkentin at kde.org>
Dept: summer-of-code
Date: Wednesday 11/Apr/2007, @17:09

40 Students to work on KDE during GSoC 2007
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   The KDE project is happy to announce the selection of 40 KDE projects
[http://code.google.com/soc/kde/about.html] for the Google Summer of
Code 2007 [http://code.google.com/soc]. This is the third consecutive
year that KDE is participating in the initiative. Though Thiago
Macieira, KDE's Summer of Code co-ordinator, states that reviewing the
213 submissions was difficult, Aaron Seigo, member of the KDE e.V.
[http://ev.kde.org/] board, has the "highest confidence in the final
list, with ambitious and exciting new technology and functionality set
to grace the KDE desktop, which is very fitting with what we are trying
to achieve with the KDE 4 vision". Read on for more information about
the selected projects.

     KDevelop [http://www.kdevelop.org/], with four accepted projects,
will get support for CMake [http://www.cmake.org/], and brand new code
completion and Ruby language support. Kommander will also be integrated
into KDevelop. No less than five projects related to KDE-PIM
[http://pim.kde.org/] applications and the new Akonadi
[http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/] PIM data store. With a total of six
accepted projects, KOffice [http://koffice.org/] will receive a
collaborative editing mode, and other accepted applications focus on
elements of Krita [http://www.koffice.org/krita/] and KWord
[http://koffice.kde.org/kword/].

     Other KDE applications receiving new features from students are the
Quanta [http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/] web development editor, the Kopete
[http://kopete.kde.org/] instant messanger, and the award-winning Amarok
[http://amarok.kde.org/] mediaplayer. The KDEPrint printer backend will
be re-designed and substantially improved, allowing the user to download
missing printing drivers automatically. The Marble desktop globe will
receive support for GPS and the KML file format (as used by Google
Earth) as well as a 2D projection mode. The Strigi
[http://www.vandenoever.info/software/strigi/] desktop search and
NEPOMUK [http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/], the semantic desktop
framework are also both covered by another two Summer of Code projects.

     For ongoing reports on the progress of these projects, see future
editions of the weekly KDE Commit-Digest [http://commit-digest.org/].