[kde-promo] GSoC 2015 summary for Google blog and dot, 1st Draft

[Ben Cooksley]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Alexander Semke
<Alexander.Semke at web.de> wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Alexander,

>
> 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.

The project was successful - the code completed in the GSoC is already
running on reports.kde.org.
As far as I was aware no final report had to be filed other than the
mentor evaluation...

>
> 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.
>
>

Thanks,
Ben

> --
> Alexander
>
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