let's get ready for Google Summer of Code 2014

[Mark Gaiser]

On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org> wrote:
>> Hey everyone :)
>>
>> It is time to get ready for GSoC 2014. It's another great chance to
>> get some large projects done this year and welcome new enthusiastic
>> people to KDE. I am working on our application.
>> I have started our ideas page at
>> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2014/Ideas  Please go and add projects
>> proposals that you think would be awesome to have a student work on
>> them. Please only add proposals where either you or someone you know
>> are willing to mentor them. If you have ideas but don't have a mentor
>> for them please find a mentor first on the appropriate mailinglist.
>>
>> The ideas page needs to be in good shape by 14 February at 19:00 UTC.
>> Go go go go! ;-)  http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2014/Ideas
>> In case of questions please ask on #kde-soc or kde-soc-mentor at kde.org.
>
> Hey folks :)
>
> *poke* about this. The ideas page is still looking rather empty and
> the application deadline is getting closer. Please help with filling
> up the ideas page. If you have questions or are unsure about a project
> please ping me to discuss it.
>
>
> Cheers
> Lydia

(only leaving kde-soc-mentor in cc)

I do have an idea for KIO in the next GSoC.

Revive the KioFuse code to todays KIO version and update it.
The start is there [1] and it's even working on kdelibs 4.0 (don't
know it's current state). But it would be very wonderful if that could
be working and then integrated in Dolphin (and obviously in my
Accretion ^_^)

Having this would resolve the issue that opening a network file from
Dolphin in (for example) mplayer downloads the entire file to your
hdd/ssd before opening it in mplayer.

The code is here, the opportunity (due to GSoC) is here. All we need
now is a student willing to take on this massive task and someone to
mentor the student.

[1] http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KioFuse