Google Summer of Code announced

[Ralf Habacker]

Ralf Habacker schrieb:
> 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.
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> 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.
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To be more specific: fixing the above mentioned stuff may be to small - 
complete domain user/group support in kde application may be more 
appropriate.

> Regards
>  Ralf
>
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