[Kde-pim] GSoC: Plasma in Kontact

[Ryan Rix]

Hello everyone,

My name is Ryan Rix, I've been involved in KDE lightly since January, having 
contributed a few patches to Konversation and Plasma, and I'm currently 
working to improve onscreen keyboard support. I'm also at some point going to 
maintain KPilot after I have a better understanding of Akonadi.

In my playing around (see my previous mails to this list regarding a Plasma-
based BasKet), I've gained a fair understanding of the structure and functions 
of the different Plasma structures (Containments, a general overview of 
Corona, DataEngines) and would like to apply them to different areas of KDE, 
including, hey you guessed it! KDEPIM :)

I'm pretty interested in doing this, and I've been involved in KDE for a while 
now, and don't plan on leaving any time soon so.. no dead code :) What exactly 
would this project consist of? Plasma already has an Akonadi dataengine, so it 
would be a matter of writing the plasma applets around the dataengine and 
placing them in a newspaper containment, I would think...

As it is, I haven't submitted an application because I'm mostly unsure of what 
constitutes a good application. Is there anyone willing to help me draft an 
application, or guide to me to where I could get more ideas?

(a bit about me)
My name is Ryan Rix, I'm currently enrolled in high school at Deer Valley High 
in Phoenix Arizona, and next year I will be majoring Computer Science at 
Arizona State University. I became involved in KDE mostly as a result of 
wanting to become more involved of the coding aspects of  Free Software. I'm 
fairly involved in the Fedora community working as a packager of a few KDE 
packages, in the marketing team, and am a member of the ambassador team.
My little Bio is probably http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rrix

Thanks everyone!
Ryan Rix

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Ryan Rix
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