Parley status

[Tomaz Canabrava]

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 10:31 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> El dimecres, 9 d’agost de 2017, a les 16:37:56 CEST, René Fritz va
> escriure:
> > Hello
>
> Hi
>
> >
> > I'm interested in the status and the future of Parley.
> >
> > In the last weeks I evaluated many vocabulary lerning solutions/programs
> for
> > my kid. As a long time KDE user I choosed Parley at first. It works ok
> but
> > has some bugs which needs to be fixed for serious use. Also I find the
> user
> > interface confusing in some parts, espacially for kids.
> >
> > So I tried other program and websites. In short: they are all not very
> good
> > in my opinion. Here and there are good things but I didn't find an
> overall
> > satisfying solution.
> > Finally I still see a potential in Parley, I like the functionality and I
> > have many (rough) ideas what could be improved.
> >
> > For some time now I wanted to dig a little bit into kde development, so
> I'm
> > thinking to start working on Parley. But the question is if it's worth
> it.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> If you're interested in improving it, it's a very good thing :)
>
> > Is Parley dead?
>
> https://cgit.kde.org/parley.git/log/
>
> There's not much development going on, but it gets released every month, so
> no, it's not dead.
>
> > I might join the KDE Edu sprint 2017, if it's ok to come there for a
> Qt/KDE
> > beginner.
>
> That would be awesome :)
>
> > I'm a software developer, mainly using web technologies like php, js,
> > typescript. In the past I did a bit C, Modula 2, Oberon.
> >
> > Is there somebody around Hannover (Germany) who can give me an
> introduction
> > to kde development?
>
> There's several KDE developers in Germany but i'm not good with geography
> so
> no idea if anyone is around Hannover.
>

There's KDE developers in Berlin, Ulm, Munich, Paderborn.
I personally don't mind having a "student" over mail / irc / facebook that
I can teach. I usually make time for that.
*if* you are really serious on that, you migth go to Qt Dev Days in Berlin
and meet some KDE people there.

Best

>
> Cheers,
>   Albert
>
> >
> > René
>
>
>
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