GSOC

[Mohamed Anwer]

Hi Ebrahem,

Just like what Valorie said, I encourage you to go ahead and pick up a
project, download the repository, build it and use it. Because this process
will most likely waste some time.

Good luck

Mohamed Anwer

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016, 2:43 AM Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Greetings to you, Ibrahem.
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 9:58 AM, ebrahem ahmed
> <eng.ebrahem.ahmed at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear Sirs:
> >      I am Ibrahem Ahmed AbdElfattah. I am 21 years old. I am studying
> > computer engineering . I am in third year. I am interested in joining
> > GSOC 2017. So what should i do to be qualified to be accepted in the
> > organization.
>
> First, a note about etiquette -- not all of us are male, and none of
> us is formal. "Dear Sirs" is rather confusing to us.
>
> It's nice to hear that you are preparing yourself already for GSoC
> 2017. Of course we have not even applied to be a mentoring org yet,
> but we naturally hope that we will succeed in being accepted.
>
> My advice to you is the same I always give -- use the software, file
> bug reports, test bug reports, fix bugs, and figure out what part of
> the enormous KDE development community you are interested in working
> with.
>
> Read the Devel manual [1], join some IRC channels (some also use
> Telegram or Rocket Chat), join some mail lists, help people on the
> Forum if you enjoy doing that, and so forth. In general, make yourself
> useful in your chosen team, and use your knowledge to develop your
> proposal.
>
> Best of luck
>
> Valorie
>
> PS: This list is mostly comprised of fellow students, and not many
> mentors or admins. Feel free to use it to get information from other
> students.
>
> 1. http://archive.flossmanuals.net/kde-guide/
>
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