My application for Season of KDE 2011

[Mark]

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:25 PM, todd rme <toddrme2178 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:33 AM, tushar mehta <mehtatus at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: tushar mehta <mehtatus at gmail.com>
>> > Date: Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:25 PM
>> > Subject: My application for Season of KDE 2011
>> > To: kde-soc-mentor at kde.org
>> >
>> >
>> > Hello all :)
>> >
>> > I applied for the GSoC-2011 for KIO application but did get selected for
>> it.
>> > I am still looking for project in this summer in KDE.
>> >
>> > I have no specific project in my mind. I don't know which projects are
>> > allocated
>> > to students for GSoC-2011 so any project appropriate for me according to
>> my
>> > profile
>> > I can work on.
>> >
>> > If any project which is not related to KDE or any other project which
>> fits
>> > to my profile
>> > and any mentor wants me to work I can work on it.
>> >
>> > I would like to prefer for project in which system programming is
>> involved.
>> > I have no experience in graphics side programming.
>> > Very little experience in scripting and web site development.
>> >
>> > I am good at C and C++.
>> >
>> > Any system programming related project will be perfect for me :)
>> >
>> > My specific interest includes kernel programming( I am beginner in it :)
>> )
>> > To explore more about my interest I did many projects on Linux based
>> > Operating System from my UG only.
>> >
>> > Here are some area on which I have worked till date:
>> > - I worked as an embedded engineer for 1.5 years in
>> > eInfochips.(http://www.einfochips.com)
>> > - During my job I made Linux Ethernet driver for DaVinci based SoC.
>> > - I also worked on network protocols like IGMPv3 as part of protocol
>> > verification project.
>> >
>> > I did my UG( Computer Science as Major ) and currently I am doing
>> > my M.Tech ( Software Engineering as Major )
>> > in International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India.
>> >
>> > During My 1st and 2nd Semester I did following projects:
>> > - Made Chromium secure live USB by removing hard disk driver
>> >   from it and made appropriate changes to make it bootable via USB.
>> > - I have also coded one Linux kernel module which was keeping track of
>> IPC
>> >   object(i.e. Semaphore) waiting process queue.
>> >
>> > Here is the major projects details and some source code that I have done
>> > till:
>> > http://crocodoc.com/D9wE6G
>> > http://crocodoc.com/6ZfQ0a
>> >
>> > I am planing to take advanced operation system as my one of the main
>> > subject. So if I am getting
>> > any project related to it, I can talk to my professor and can request
>> him to
>> > consider it
>> > as project elective. So that I can work on it for next 6 month also.
>> >
>> > I would like to work for any project that is appropriate according to my
>> > profile.
>> > If there are any other projects available then also I am open to work
>> for
>> > it.
>> >
>> > I can also do work for any application.
>> >
>> > I like to work for open source and want to explore this world.
>> > I am expecting from this project a good learning experience plus a good
>> > bridge
>> > between open source organization and my institute.
>> >
>> > Let me know what is I need to do further.
>>
>>
>> Another potential KIO project: fuse support or some sort of mounting
>> of KIO slaves.  Currently only KDE applications support kio slaves.
>> GNOME applications and commandline applications cannot use it.  Having
>> KIO slaves automatically mounted somewhere so they can ba accessed by
>> non-KDE applications would help interporability a lot.  GIO (gnome's
>> equivalent) already does this (mounting them in a hidden directory).
>> I am not sure what the best approach to this would be, though.  There
>> was some work done on this in the KIO-fuse project, but it seems to
>> have been abandoned.
>>
>> -Todd
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> Just a suggestion here. When i want to access my network share on the
> command line i usually use dolphin first to see where it is for the folder
> structure and then use mount -t cifs to access it on the console. Please do
> not mount it in hidden folders but just in the places where mounts belong in
> /mnt or /media since that would make it really usable on the command line as
> well.
>
> Btw. How is dolphin (thus KIO) handling network shares right now? Isn't it
> mounted somewhere already?
> I don't have a lot of spare time but i do want to work on this if possible
> but i'm guessing it's to hard and to much for just a spare time project so
> don't expect anything.
>
> Regards,
> Mark
>

For who wants information about the existing KioFuse project (dead?) :
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KioFuse
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