Last minute GSoC proposal with Roks - anyone interested in mentoring?

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 12:25 AM Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:

> He contacted me and participated in a qt course I presented at his
> university. Inward unsure if he was going to apply.
>

OK, good to hear that there was some contact. I need some ideas about who
can look at this proposal and see if there is any chance of success.

Valorie


> Em qua, 10 de abr de 2019 às 04:24, Valorie Zimmerman <
> valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>> I'm unsure if this applicant contacted the KDE Edu team in advance, but I
>> heard nothing from them until seeing this proposal this morning.
>>
>> The short description of the proposal:
>>
>> "As a student, I use graphs in almost everything related to my master’s
>> research. Graph Theory is a great mathematical tool for programmers and
>> mathematicians, as it facilitates some computational problems resolution
>> and modelling. However, is not always easy to understand the underlying
>> theory and algorithms.
>>
>> "Rocs (https://kde.org/applications/education/rocs) is a Graph Theory
>> IDE created in January of 2010, with new updates still being committed
>> almost every month, currently in the KDE repositories, designed for
>> lecturers, students and researchers. It is composed of a visual data
>> structure and a powerful scripting engine in Javascript. Though useful for
>> creating simple graphs, it is still lacking the tools to simplify the
>> creation of bigger graphs, and also of basic graph theory algorithms for
>> beginners. Another improvement it should have is a step by step execution
>> system, in order to fully comprehend the algorithms and facilitate
>> debugging."
>>
>> If you are interested in mentoring but have not yet been invited to the
>> app, please write KDE-Soc-Management at kde.org and tell us what
>> google-connected email address you want us in use. Also, subscribe to
>> KDE-Soc-Mentor mail list:
>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-soc-mentor
>>
>> If you're already a mentor, you can mark "I want to mentor" on the
>> proposal page. I believe that we can still comment on the draft and the
>> student can read it, although we are not allowed to consider the draft in
>> our consideration of which students to accept.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Valorie
>>
>
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