[GSOC 2014] project : Improve sharing experience

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 2:35 AM, Aaron Zakhrov <aaron.zakhrov at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Aaron Zakhrov <aaron.zakhrov at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 3:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [GSOC 2014] project : Improve sharing experience
> To: Àlex Fiestas <afiestas at kde.org>
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> hey sorry for the delay in responding. I was doing some research (googling
> mostly) on UPnP and have hit a bit of a snag.
> There is no native Qt library for creating UPnP clients and devices. The
> available options I found are libupnp, gupnp and qupnp.
> qupnp is basically a Qt implementation of gupnp but is still at version 0.1
> and has a bunch of bugs (it does not build on my system). Also the
> documentation is basically nonexistent. Gupnp has excellent documentation
> but is based on gtk and uses gObject. So not really compatible with what we
> need. libupnp seems to be stable but again the documentation does not
> provide any examples to try out :-(
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> How do we go about submitting a proposal to GSOC? According to the website
> registration for students begins on the 10th (2 days from this email). Do I
> have to submit a proposal to KDE before I try to register or do I submit it
> at registration itself? And what exactly should be in the proposal? I am a
> complete noob at this so any advice will be appreciated.
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> Thanks in advance
>
> Aaron

Hi Aaron, thanks for doing some research before writing. Here is some
more information for students, and a cautionary note:

http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCStudentGuide/

http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2013/04/15/so-you-want-to-be-a-summer-of-code-student/

Now is the time for you to locate your KDE team of choice, and connect
with a/some possible mentor(s). They are the ones who can point you to
the best technical resources, and help you refine your proposal.

All the best,

Valorie

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