Meeting you mentors

[Rafał Rzepecki]

Hi Chris, hello fellow SoC-cers,

How many of you have met their mentors face-to-face?

As my mentoring organization is KDE and I have come to aKademy 
<http://conference2005.kde.org> in Malaga (where I'm writing these words 
from :) ) I've had the opportunity to meet my mentors (and other KDE 
developers) in person, discuss with them my project and also other ideas 
related to Kontact (PIM suite I've been extending). We have worked together 
in merging my branch into the main code tree and preparing to port KDEPIM to 
Qt 4.0. In fact, as I have a SVN account now, I'm planning to help in 
development of KDEPIM and KDE for this wonderful DE to rule the world ;)

You can see a photo of me with two of my mentors (unfortunately the third one 
was sick when we took the photo and couldn't show up) at 
http://img5.picsplace.to/img5/3/dsc04458.jpg
From the left: Till Adam, me, Reinhold Kainhofer.

As a sidenote, about my humble project (because I feel it's not nearly as 
impressive as some you folks have accomplished): I have accomplished all 
clearly defined goals of my project; I'm not satisfied that I haven't 
extended on it as I originally wanted, but it turns out that designing 
efficient and comfortable GUIs for complex tasks isn't exactly piece of cake. 
Still, extensive discussions with usability experts here in Malaga gave me 
some ideas I want to pursue further, so expect even better GUI for todos in 
Korganizer soon (hopefully); obviously, not as a part of SoC (well, at least 
the 2005-NH edition).

You can find more details at 
http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=SOC_Korganizer_GTD
Unfortunately we couldn't get those features into 3.5 because of the feature 
freeze, so expect them only in next release (4.0 or maybe 3.6 (if there will 
be 3.6)).
-- 
Rafał Rzepecki