Wish to join GSoC Project for Plasma

[Chani]

On February 20, 2009 07:44:39 Shantanu Jha wrote:
> Hi,
> I wish to join the Plasma project Simple Media Center components or
> Plasmate. I'm using KDE since last year in November when I attended the
> Free and Open Source Software India FOSS.IN 2008 meet. I was a part of few

welcome to plasma! :)

> people who helped to setup the KDE stalls and other things. There KDE
> developers gifted us the book Qt Development Fundamentals by Johan
> Thelin, so that we'd be able to contribute to KDE. I've read a part of
> it - as of now, Widgets and Layouts, Main Window, Model-View framework
> and Creating Widgets. After that, I've spent till mid-February to
> build KDE from SVN trunk, so that I could apply the concepts. Building
> took lots of time, as I'm a newbie, but atlast I have the latest KDE 4
> SVN build.
> I have not yet developed my own plasmoids, have only added a minor
> feature in the System Monitor - Network plasmoid, which didn't display
> the interface name before the fix. ( SVN commit 928770 by aseigo )

cool :)

>
> I do accept I'm kind of a newbie at programming in Qt, and hence KDE,
> but am willing to learn, and have plenty of time, as due to some
> physical disabilities, I'm cut off from sports. I'm currently doing a
> Bachelor's degree in Computer Science And Engineering in Bangalore,
> India, and currently in 2nd of the total 4 years of the course.
> So, I wanted to know if I can participate in any of the projects? I
> noticed "Knowledge prerequisite: Knowledge of C++ and some familiarity
> with Qt, QGraphicsView related classes.". I accept that I currently
> have little experience with programming plasmoids and these, but I
> assure I'll work hard to learn whatever is required.

:) practice makes perfect. I suggest writing a plasmoid and/or fixing some more 
bugs right away, to get more experience. feel free to ask us for help with 
that.
the summer of code program was originally designed for people like you, so if 
you keep in touch and keep learning and submit a thoughtful proposal, I think 
you've got a good chance of being one of the lucky accepted ones :) 

> I can also talk
> on IRC, if its more comfortable to you guys :)

yeah, come to #plasma if you're not there already - lots of stuff happens both 
here and there. what's your irc nick?

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