[KDE-India] GSOC/KDE-2007 and Us.

[Pradeepto Bhattacharya]

Hi,

      I am sure most of us know about the annual event Google Summer
Of Code. like past years The KDE Project participated this year even.
Actually I had posted about the event when it was kicked off this
year.

      Anyways, results were declared sometime back and KDE got some
40[1] [2] slots from Google. But for me the bigger and happier news is
that a lot of Indians participated this year and quite a few them
submitted good proposals. There were 216 eligible proposals in all
that were submitted to The KDE Project. 3 Indians were selected in all
- Anirudh Ramesh, Piyush Verma and Shivasharan Rao.

        Their proposals and most other accepted proposals just passed
with flying colours even if there was a discussion/debate on pros and
cons of the proposals. If there were only disputes, it was due to
certain conflicting proposals or duplicate proposals for the same
idea, in which case the most suitable candidate was selected which
ofcourse was measured by a scale called as - "who have shown most
enthusiasm and maybe has submitted (most) patches or proposal was very
very strong". It was taken care that proposal was worth atleast 30+
hours per week of work and was sometimes even informed to student if
he had other ideas. Anything less and the candidate was questioned. I
was sort of happy and pleasantly surprised watching mentors calling a
spade a spade or some such metaphor. And since I have spoken to
personally ( or heard about ) quite a few candidates this year, the
common thing was their enthusiasm and willingness - be it Mike Authur,
Marcus Hanwell or Sharan or anybody else.

       I wish them all good luck and good wishes for this.  And I
really hope that next year more of us participate and participate with
even better proposals and get selected even.

       At this point, I know there are a few people on this list who
didnot get selected and I am sure you will be not too disappointed
with your result and as some of you have anyways expressed desire to
complete the proposal, I wish you good luck - and btw You Rock! ( you
know who you are, pizza eating dude! :)  ).

      [1] http://dot.kde.org/1176336589/
      [2] http://code.google.com/soc/kde/about.html

      Cheers!

Pradeepto
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