GSoC 2015 summary for Google blog and dot, 1st Draft

[Alexander Semke]

Hi,

I went through the list of accepted projects and through the final reports
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2015
https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2015/StatusReports
(planet-kde-org/planetkde/config)

The first draft of the summary blog can be found here
https://notes.kde.org/p/GSoC2015_summary
In the final web-version I'll add proper links to project pages and to the 
final reports as well as couple of screenshots. The placeholders for the 
screenshots are currently indicated in the draft by the <Screenshot>-tag.

I was *not* able to provide any summary for quite a number of projects where I 
didn't find any final reports. So, please have a look at the list below. I'd 
like to ask for a confirmation about the final status of those projects. 
Please help to finish the summary for this projects.

Also, feel free to add/rewrite the text in the first draft if you see a need 
for it (wrong wording, not sufficient detailed technical information provided, 
etc.). Also, please check for the proper names used in the text. For 
"dfighter" I didn't find the real name.

I have bad feeling about the summary of the work done by Wolthera for Krita. 
For me, for a non-expert in this area, it looks like a remarkable amount of 
work was done. But due to the lack of the domain specific knowledge (and/or 
intelligence) I'm not able to provide a concise summary about the achieved 
results. Please help to improve here.

Similar problems I had with the final report for "Package Install for 3rd 
Party Applications" (http://ranveeraggarwal.com/blog/2015/08/21/gsoc-15-a-summary/) and "Plasma 'appstore' both desktop and web client" 
(http://wolfcliff.blogspot.com/2015/08/ocs-client-gsoc.html). Please help to 
add the corresponding summaries here. I'd put them to the "Misc"-section.



List of projects with no or not enough information:

1.
Project: Port of GCompris to Qt Quick
Student: Siddhesh Suthar
Mentors: Johnny Jazeix, Bruno Coudoin
Comment: No GSoC2015-related blogs found.

2.
Project: Factorize And Port to KF5/Qt5 Web Import/Export KIPI Tools of digiKam
Student: Shourya Singh Gupta
Mentor: Gilles Caulier
Comment: No GSoC2015-related blogs found.

3.
Project: [KDevelop] C++ code refactoring (powered by Clang)
Student: Maciej Poleski
Mentor: Milian Wolff
Comment: No GSoC2015-related blogs found.

4.
Project: TV optimized dashboard support in Plasma Media center
Student: Bhushan Shah
Mentor: Marco Martin
Comment: No final report available, only the project description.

5.
Project: akonadi next settings
Student: Michael Bohlender
Mentor: Kevin Krammer
Comment: No GSoC2015-related blogs found.

6.
Project: Improve KDE Connect encryption
Student: Vineet Garg
Mentor: Albert Vaca Cintora
Comment: No GSoC2015-related blogs found.

7.
Project: kopete - PGP plugin
Student: Nikolaos Chatzidakis
Mentor: Pavol Rohár
Comment: No GSoC2015-related blogs found.

8.
Project: Kopete: Improved History Plugin
Student: Joseph W Joshua
Mentors: Kaushik Saurabh, Pavol Rohár
Comment: No GSoC2015-related blogs found.

9.
Project: Make an Editor Library/Plugin for KVTML Files
Student: Rahul Chowdhury
Mentors: ingwa, Jeremy Whiting
Comment: No final report found.

10.
Project: Restructuring content delivery system with ocs-server and Gluon 
Player
Student: Claudio Desideri
Mentor: Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen
Comment: No final report found.

11.
Project: Animation in Krita
Student: Jouni Pentikäinen
Mentors: Boudewijn Rempt, Dmitry Kazakov
Comment: No final report found.

12.
Project: Continue improvement of KDE Reports
Student: Ahmed AbouElhamayed
Mentor: Ben Cooksley
Comment: No final report is avaiable. Though, 
https://ahmedabouelhamayed.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/kde-project-activity-reports/ looks like the project was successfully completed.

13.
Project: Advanced Metadata Hub of digiKam
Student: Veaceslav Munteanu
Mentor: Gilles Caulier
Comment: Feed http://veaceslav.me/kdefeed.xml is not reachable

14.
Project: Finish implementation of an outliner for Calligra Author
Student: Denis Kuplyakov
Mentors: ingwa, Boudewijn Rempt
Comment: I've only found the blogs from the last year. No reports for 
GSoc2015.


-- 
Alexander