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

[Tomaz Canabrava]

I signed as a mentor for analitza so I’m not sure I can mentor two. But if
anyone can tag as “mentor”, I can be the actual mentor.

Em qua, 10 de abr de 2019 às 10:13, Valorie Zimmerman <
valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> escreveu:

> Cool. Now I need mentors to step up, or suggestions for whom to ask. If
> you are interested and are all signed up as a mentor, you know what to do.
>
> If not, write to KDE-Soc-Management at kde.org and tell us your
> google-connected email address so you can be invited to the GSoC webapp,
> and subscribe to the KDE-Soc-Management ML:
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-soc-mentor
>
> Valorie
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 1:01 AM Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Sounds reasonable. The fact that he’s in masters also counts as he can do
>> what he is talking about.
>>
>>
>> Em qua, 10 de abr de 2019 às 09:37, Valorie Zimmerman <
>> valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> escreveu:
>>
>>> 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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>>>
>>>
>>>
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