Google Summer of Code announced

[Ralf Habacker]

Patrick Spendrin schrieb:
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> Hello everybody,
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> The Google Summer of Code program for 2010 has been announced.
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> KDE will probably gain several students again, and I would really like
> to have one student working on KDE on Windows this year.
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> So if you are over 18 and at a university/college and you have some time
>  this spring for programming, think a bit about it...
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> What means Summer of Code?
> - - You would work on a KDE related project.
> - - You'll get a mentor which will be one out of the KDE on Windows crew.
> He will help you in case you have questions and also evaluate your work.
> - - You'll get payment. In the last years, this has been 4500USD for the
> student and another 500USD for the project (in this case KDE), I am not
> sure about this years numbers though.
>
> What you can do now:
> - - Try to become familiar with building and developing KDE on Windows and
> try to become involved and submit some patches (this would also include
> getting an svn account).
> - - look around for parts of KDE that need special treatment on Windows.
> Examples would be: "port Konsole to Windows similar to what console2 is
> doing", "implementing more stuff in the wmi backend, e.g. power supply
> support" and similar projects. If you have found some things you could
> work on, simply ask us whether this could be ok.
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I was faced with a problem in KUser not having domain user support, 
which which prevents kdeinit4 --terminate fail to kill kde processes. I 
have an initial patch but unfortunally no time yet to fix completly.

Regards
 Ralf