SoK: A New PlanetKDE

Lydia Pintscher lydia at kde.org
Wed Jan 28 19:54:45 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Ranveer Aggarwal
<ranveeraggarwal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I started off my Project under Season of KDE 2014 with a motive to design
> and revamp KDE's own blog aggregator, PlanetKDE. Initiated by my mentor
> Jonathan Riddell, back in 2008, this website did an amazing job of scraping
> off content from KDE's bloggers.
>
> Since this was my first experience with Open Source, I initially restricted
> my interaction with the community, and went on designing and understanding
> everything myself, mailing my mentor when I was stuck. Around two weeks
> back, I completed my first draft and I thought it looked decent.
> Then I was suggested to consult the Visual Design Forum and boy were they
> and enthusiastic bunch! They suggested loads of changes in the design and
> patiently helped me as I proceeded.
>
> And now, the site is live: https://planetkde.org/
>
> This has been a great experience, and one of the biggest take backs was that
> when you work with various people, on something that will influence various
> people, you're bound to learn a lot.
> I sincerely thank my mentor and everyone else who contributed for the
> amazing experience. I'll definitely keep contributing to KDE in the days to
> come.
> Hope you all like the new design.
>
> Any bug report/improvement/review would be appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
> Ranveer Aggarwal

Really great work! Congratulations.


Cheers
Lydia

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