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

[The Abattoir]

On 4/13/07, Pradeepto Bhattacharya <pradeeptob at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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