[Kstars-devel] KStars in Google Code-In?

[Akarsh Simha]

Google Code-In is Google's program to introduce 13 ~ 18
y.o. pre-university students to open source! More details here:

http://code.google.com/opensource/gci/2010-11/index.html

KDE is currently looking for ideas:
http://community.kde.org/GoogleCodeIn/2010/Ideas

Do others here have any recommendations?

One of the things that could really use some creative young people,
IMO, is to make KStars more educative and beginner-friendly. John
Tapsell met Prakash and me at Akademy 2010 and pointed out that KStars
was really not very beginner friendly. I had not thought of this
myself. Maybe that's a good thing to work on next.

If we get smarter students, we could try and make Cartes du Ciel
catalogs compatible with KStars. Talking to users, I realise that our
small datasets are a hindrance. But that may not be something that a
student will really enjoy working on, or will have creative inputs on.

Any ideas?

Regards
Akarsh