let's get ready for Google Summer of Code 2014

[Mark Gaiser]

Done: http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2014/Ideas#Revive_KioFuse.2C_fuse_support_for_KIO

Lets hope a student comes by and picks that project :)
All we need then is someone to mentor that.

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Mark Gaiser <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.