Wish to join GSoC Project for Plasma

[Shantanu Jha]

> :) 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.

Yes, I'll read the tutorial on writing a plasmoid on the kde techbase,
and try. Thanks.

> yeah, come to #plasma if you're not there already - lots of stuff happens both
> here and there. what's your irc nick?
I've joined the #plasma channel, my nick is Shaan7.

2009/2/20 Chani <chanika at gmail.com>:
> 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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