[Kde-pim] Summer of Code

[Carter Dewey]

Hello,

I'm a student that is interested in potentially submitting an 
application for this year's Google Summer of Code, and thought I might 
introduce myself and a KDE/Akonadi related idea for a bit of feedback. I 
ran this idea by someone a couple of days ago (Thomas McGuire) and he 
suggested coming to the mailing list to introduce myself and the idea 
that's stirring in my head so far.

Essentially, a professor of mine has been doing a fair amount of work 
with the BasKet (http://basket.kde.org in case anyone hasn't looked at 
it) application, and I've started to find interest in the project as 
well through him. He had mentioned that one of their big goals was to 
integrate Akonadi support into BasKet, and we both thought this could be 
a good concept for a SoC project for me. A few things that I've been 
told we should probably think about and clear up are: 1) Will we be 
porting BasKet from KDE3->KDE4 as part of the SoC proposal too and 2) 
How exactly we intend to integrate Akonadi (as far as what purpose it 
will serve for BasKet).

Really, I'd just love to hear any constructive criticisms, feedback, or 
advice that anyone might have about this idea. If it seems like 
something that would be interesting and worthwhile, then maybe I can put 
up a proposal draft a little later and really flesh things out better. 
I'd very much like to have a shot at a SoC spot, so I'm open to any and 
all help that people are willing to give, and I'll try my best to make 
it work. I'll also probably start hovering around the #kontact channel, 
if for nothing else than so I can listen.

I look forward to hearing what you all think. Thanks for your time.
-Carter


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