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

Valorie Zimmerman valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com
Wed Apr 10 08:36:39 BST 2019


Thank you, Tomaz. <3

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 12:34 AM Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:

> Let me look, give me 30 minutes.
>
>
> Em qua, 10 de abr de 2019 às 09:30, Valorie Zimmerman <
> valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>>
>>
>> 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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