Project tracking at KDE TechBase and blogs

[Daniel Molkentin]

Welcome GSoC Students,

let me quicky introduce myself: My name is Daniel Molkentin, and I am on of 
the "Maintainers" of KDE TechBase [1], our portal for technical documentation 
and interaction. For instance, TechBase holds instructions on how to set up a 
convinient KDE 4 development environment, so don't miss it :-)

We created a an area for all GSoC 2007 students on TechBase, so everyone can 
track his project's status there. I'd like to ask you to get a TechBase 
account and follow the example of Marijn Kruisselbrink, who also already 
added a description page [2]. 

Techbase uses MediaWiki, so everyone familar with Wikipedia should feel home 
right away. If you are used to the syntax and semantics, just read the help 
page (which includes a link to wikipedias very verbose help pages) or ask at 
#kde-soc on Freenode IRC (irc.kde.org aka irc.freenode.org). Add your pages 
as subpages of Summer_of_Code/2007/Projects/	 just like Marijn did and add a 
small profile to your user page. When you're done, link both from the table 
of projects in [1]. 

This will be a good way to get not only your mentors but also the rest of the 
community a good overview about where you are currently at, making it easier 
for them to collaborate with you (as opposed to private status mails with 
your mentor).

Also, if your project introduces a technology that will be of use for others 
(developers, administrators, etc), it would be cool to have a tutorial on 
TechBase (rather than a small README file in a place where nobody will look 
for it or - worse - nothing at all). This should be one of the last steps in 
your projects. If you don't feel confident on where to put it, simply drop me 
a mail in private or ask via my Talk page.

Last but not least you feel like blogging (and you really should to get the 
crowd raving about the progress of your project), just get yourself a blog at 
one of the "usual suspect" blogger sites like blogger.com and notify Chris 
Lee (clee on Freenode IRC, clee at kde.org), the maintainer of Planet KDE [2]. 
He will add your blog to the feeds of Planet KDE, our blog aggregator. If you 
don't want to have all your entries show up on Planet KDE, you can simply 
create a new category or tag. Usually all modern blogging software offers 
seperate feeds for each tag or category, and you can safely pass the 
respective feed to Chris and thus only KDE related blog posts on Planet KDE.

If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask, but please CC me, as I am not 
subscribed to this list.

Welcome to the KDE community!

Cheers,
  Daniel

[1] http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2007/Projects
[2] 
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2007/Projects/Music_Notation_support_for_KOffice
[3] http://planetkde.org
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