let's get ready for Google Summer of Code 2014

[Aleix Pol]

On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Mark Gaiser <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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Hi Mark,
Feel free to add the proposal yourself. :) It's a wiki.

Aleix
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