let's get ready for Google Summer of Code 2014

[Mark Gaiser]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> 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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I know :)

Posting this here to see if anyone would be interested in mentoring this.
Will add it to the wiki somewhere tomorrow.