[Kde-games-devel] KDE Games on GSoC

[Ian Wadham]

@ Stefan.  Welcome back.  I hope you had a very pleasant vacation
and are feeling refreshed and ready for action … :-)

@ Stefan, please catch up on this thread ASAP.  ATM I am the only KDE
Games GSoC mentor and it has all been happening over Easter.  I have
been busier than a dog full of fleas … :-) and have had a difficult time
holding the fort and evaluating proposals, especially the QML-based
ones.  ATM I do not know anything about QML … :-( …  I posted on
kde-soc-mentor at kde.org and luckily have found a part-time mentor
for QML technicalities.

Our KDE Games GSoC Ideas were largely yours, Stefan, and now is the
opportunity to bring them to fruition.  We badly need your input and help re
the evaluation and there are some matters arising that I need to discuss
with you privately.  The shared spreadsheet on which evaluation is being
done is restricted to mentors, but I need to know what to say there on KDE
Games's behalf.

As I wrote previously, I put KDE Games down for 3-4 slots on the shared
spreadsheet, which Lydia Pintscher is running for KDE proposals.

GSoC have just allocated slots to KDE and it looks like there are enough
to go round all the KDE groups, but that is just my guess.  No doubt Lydia
and KDE GSoC admins will be sub-allocating in the next day or two.

KDE Games must get its mentor list and its short-list of projects finalised
ASAP.  How many slots we can have depends strongly on how many
mentors we have and how their skills and expertise match the proposals.

All of this has to be finalised within a week.  Google's deadline is 7:00 UTC
on 20 April, but we must get KDE Games's act together first and then KDE
has to get its act together before the deadline.  So KDE Games probably
has *less* than 1 week.

Cheers, Ian W.

On 11/04/2012, at 1:06 PM, Ian Wadham wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Here is an update.  But first, two important points:
> 
> 1. @ Pankaj.  You wrote to me two days ago to say you had applied
>    to be a mentor.  Are you in or out?  A lot depends on your answer,
>    such as how many GSoC projects KDE Games might have in total.
> 
> 2. @ Viranch.  I am not comfortable that you are starting a job in July and
>     that GSoC does not finish until 20 August and mid-term payments are
>     due on 13 July.  Is it a full-time job with an employer?  Will you have to
>     re-locate?  I have a lifetime of work experience and I can tell you that
>     starting a new job is usually all-consuming.  You would need to give
>     us a cast-iron guarantee that you will finish the GSoC job, whatever
>     it takes.  I like your proposal and the fact that you have done QML work
>     for Plasma before.  Please reassure us and please write to me privately
>     if you would like things to remain confidential.
> 
> The good news is that we have an experienced QML guy and GSoC
> mentor, David Edmundson, who has agreed to act as a co-mentor re
> the technicalities of QML.  So we could have at least one QML project,
> with me as mentor re admin and KDE Games technicalities and David
> as co-mentor re QML.
> 
> I have asked for three KDE "slots" and said four would be "awesome".
> 
> If Pankaj joins David and me, we should be able cover whatever slots
> we are allocated in the final countdown to 20 April, when slots, applicants
> and mentors must be all matched up.
> 
> Meanwhile, if you are able to, please score our projects on
> http://www.google-melange.com  I think you need just a Google account
> to do that.  Or maybe you need to be a mentor.  KDE is following the
> convention of 1 star, no good; 2 stars, good and 3 stars, very good.
> 
> The more votes we get the better our chances of projects being accepted.
> 
> On 08/04/2012, at 9:40 PM, Ian Wadham wrote:
>> This is to let you know that I decided at the last minute to apply to be a
>> mentor for KDE Games and was accepted about 24 hours ago.
>> 
>> <snip>
>> I find it difficult to say more on this list.  So much stuff is private until
>> slots are allocated and proposals accepted.  Also I do not feel I can
>> represent the group adequately on the QML front.
>> 
>> Any ideas on how we can act more as a group on this? Stefan?
> 
> Guys, how about some support here?  I feel like the little Dutch boy with
> his finger in the dyke … :-)
> 
> Cheers, Ian W.
> 
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