Project Description: KDE Plasma Educational Desktop is aimed at school children who are in the 4th Grade or lower classes. It will enable the children access to great KDE EDU software through an easy to use and interactive desktop environment.

KDE Plasma Educational Desktop will also provide an option to be remote controlled by the class teacher so that the children can only run the approved softwares on their desktops.

It will also have an easy to use Application Launcher plasmoid which will be used by children to launch the applications.

KDE Plasma Educational Desktop is a joint project of both KDE Plasma and KDE EDU.

As soon as the desktop version is done, Tablet and Netbook versions will also be developed.

Screenshot 1: http://kpsfoo.in/blog/gsoc-update-after-a-looong-time-2/chat_app_2/

Screenshot 2: http://kpsfoo.in/blog/gsoc-update-after-a-looong-time-2/containment_1/

What was awesome about GSoC: There are a lot of things which were awesome in the GSoC with KDE:-

1) I got to work on an actual project which will provide significant benefits to the students.

2) I got to learn a lot and interact with all the Genius people involved in KDE.

3) I learnt how to get help, how to communicate better with others and how to have fun KDE style ;)

4) I also learnt that proper time and project management skills are crucial for a fruitful outcome!

5) I am now a member of the community and will continue to contribute to make KDE even more awesome than it already is!

6) Since this was my first time working for an Open Source organization, I learned a lot of the dynamics behind how Open Source software actually works!

One Thing I learned: Coding is just part of the process. Always understand the problem and then begin coding. Communication with your mentors and understanding and interpreting their guidelines correctly is a must! And the best way to learn new code is to add little debug/print statements all over the code so that you know which part does what exactly! And never ever ever assume anything, it will cost you precious time! :)

Blog: http://www.kpsfoo.in/blog

http://kpsfoo.in/blog/hello-world/

http://kpsfoo.in/blog/gsoc-update-after-a-looong-time-2/

Irc: #[email protected] (kps_foo)

Viranch Mehta

Project: Porting KDE Plasmoids to QML

Description: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/viranch/9001

Links (blog+screenshots):

http://viranchmehta.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/ugly-bad-and-good/

http://viranchmehta.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/gsoc-update-battery-monitor-applet/

http://viranchmehta.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/gsoc-update-2-locklogout-applet/

http://viranchmehta.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/gsoc-update-3-device-notifier-applet/

http://viranchmehta.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/gsoc-update-4-qml-plasmoids-almost-ready-to-use/

Link (mailing list): http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/

Awesome thing about GSoC: It got me involved with KDE which I had been wanting to do since very long, and I'm now a proud KDE contributor ;)

One thing I learnt: You've got to be highly motivated and committed to become and remain a part of any FOSS community. The only motivation for me is my passion for programming, and KDE!

IRC nick: viranch

Pranav Ravichandran

Project: Integrating the SMARTS Game AI System into Gluon

Link (blog): http://pranavrc.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/plunging-into-gluon-and-kde-with-gsoc/

IRC nick: Pranav_rcmas

Sinny Kumari

Project: Making Plasma Media Center ready for first release

Link (Wiki):http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center

Link (Project): https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/multimedia/plasma-mediacenter/repository

Link (Blog):

  http://www.sinny.in/?q=node/13
  http://www.sinny.in/?q=node/14

IRC : #plasma-mediacenter (ksinny)

What was awesome about GSoC : Got experience of writing a real world project in a fixed time duration.

Learnt: Managing Time, modularization of bigger task, working together in a team and understanding each other.

Sudhendu Kumar

Project: HTML replies in KMail

Link (Project): - http://sudhendu.in/node/12

http://sudhendu.in/node/11

Link (Blog): - http://www.sudhendu.in

IRC: #kontact (ROYal007)

Daniel Marth

Project: Marble goes Mobile, Take 2

Link (Project): http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/danielmarth/1

Link (Wiki): http://www.proggen.org/doku.php?id=user:dani93:gsoc:2011

IRC nick: marthd

Aakriti Gupta

Project: Single-canvas presentation mode in Calligra Stage

Links :

Project Proposal

(Blog)

GSoC Project: Single Canvas presentation mode in Calligra Stage

Presentations, the (new) Stage way (With links to screenshots, video with a demo of the feature)

Sample presentation (used for my project presentation at the Desktop Summit)

GSoC for me, was awesome because...

With this project I started my contribution to open source software that I use and like. A summer put to good use, implemented a feature I like, worked with great developers, earned for the first time, attended the Desktop Summit in Berlin and now feel part of the awesome KDE community - what more to ask for!

One thing I learnt

Believe in yourself and ask when you are not sure. They are awesome people out there, who started just like you.

IRC: #Calligra, #stage (aakriti)

Teo Mrnjavac

Project: Amarok Mobile Foundations

Blog posts: (1) Beginning Amarok Mobile

IRC: Teo` in #amarok on Freenode

José Millán Soto

Project: KMail, Kopete and Dolphin accessibility

Link (Blog): http://gpul.org/?q=en/blog/219

IRC nick: fid_jose

Rohan Garg

Project syncEvolution and KDE integration

Link (Blog): http://kshadeslayer.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/hello-planets/

IRC nick: shadeslayer

Alessandro Buggin

Project Voxforge integration with Simon

Link (Blog): http://archandkde.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/gsoc-hello-planet/

Project details: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/ahel/17001

IRC nick: ahel in #kde-soc #kde-accessibility #kde-devel #kde-italia

Mailing List: https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=speech2text-development

Tudorica Constantin-Alexandru

Project: Kde on Windows installer using Attica

IRC nick: tudalex in #kde-windows

Blog: http://gsoc.tudalex.com/

Screenshot: http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/9294294829/1/tumblr_lqe0iy2Ax71qlwlt9

Description: A new installer for kde on windows that is software oriented instead of package oriented for Kde on Windows. Also the installer is compliant with the Open Collaborative Services API.

What was awesome about GSoC: Connected with a community of super talented and helpful people.

One thing I learned: Before I started GSoC I knew nothing about Qt and Kde programming just a little bit about C++ OOP. I learned a lot about those two.

Shantanu Tushar

Project: Digital Game Distribution Support and Enhancements for Gluon

Project Website: http://gluon.gamingfreedom.org/

Blog: http://www.shantanutushar.com/category/tags/gluon

IRC Nick: Shaan7

Adam Nash

Project: Context Dependent Speech Recognition for simon

Mailing List Archive: speech2text-development

Status Report (with screenshot): Final Weeks Blog Post

What is awesome about GSoC? The experience of working on a great program that will be useful to people!

What did I learn? I learned a lot about software design.

Svyatoslav Kuzmich

Project: Further improve the Vi Input Mode in Kate

Blog:

(1) http://kate-editor.org/2011/07/26/vimode-gsoc2011/

Git: git://anongit.kde.org/clones/kate/kuzmich/kuzmich_gsoc_2011.git

Siddharth Sharma

Project: PSD File import/export Support

Status: Single layer PSD Files now open correctly CMYK, LAB and RGB support done for them Currently working on support for psd files with multiple layers

Blog: http://www.siddharthkde.wordpress.com

IRC Nick: siddvicious

Jonathan Perichon

Project: Usability survey framework

Description: here

What was awesome about GSoC: The community: people are awesome, helping and devoted. That’s very motivating and reassuring when jumping in to the large community that is KDE. And it also encourages contributing after the GSoC.

One thing I learned: Time management and organization are really important to get things done correctly.

Status:

Core classes hierarchy: done

Grammar for parsing csv files: done

Plasmoid data engine: done

Plasmoid application: not completed

Currently (last week of GSoC): code clean-up, documentation, recipe for adding new question types

After: finish the plasmoid application, implement survey of the week pushed via GHNS, ...

Blog:

(1) http://jonathan-perichon.com/gsoc-usability-survey-framework/

(2) http://jonathan-perichon.com/gsoc-usability-study-status-update/

Git: git://anongit.kde.org/scratch/perichon/kusabilitysurvey.git

IRC: #[email protected] (jperichon)

Martin Klapetek

Project: PIMO:Person integration into Akonadi-Nepomuk

Status: Working on Nepomuk service and Akonadi-Nepomuk-Contacts-Feeder

Blog: http://martys.typepad.com/blog/2011/06/gsoc-pim-nepomuk-and-telepathy.html

IRC: mck182 @ #kde-telepathy & #kontact & #nepomuk-kde

Kunal Ghosh

Project: Desktop Synchronization For OwnCloud

Status Update: http://owncloud.org/index.php/Syncclient

IRC: gancient @ #ownclouod

Dmitry Kazakov

Project: Multithreaded Tool Actions System for Krita

Project Page: page

Status: Finished the design of all the four subsystems. Implemented Strokes Framework and Non-tool Actions framework. Ported the most important painting tools to the new frameworks. Now they work more smooth because actual image processing is done separately and asynchronously from the UI events. Porting of some of the tools is still pending.

Awesome: It's always awesome to learn new things!

One thing I learned: You always need to think over the design of new systems well before actual writing begins.

Design documents: Interactional Tools, Strokes Framework, NonTool Actions Implementation, Recording System

IRC: dmitryK

Adrian Lungu

Project: Kate Code Folding

Project Proposal: Kate Code Folding - Proposal

Status: The project is completed. I want to use this last week to write a couple of more tests and for some fine tunning

Blog pages:

Week 1: Introduction

Week 2: Architectural Design

Week 3: Folding Algorithm

Week 4: Integrating the Folding Algorithm

Week 5: New Code Folding is taking shape

Final steps: Try Kate's new Code Folding

Final steps: Some technical details about Kate's Code Folding

Final steps: The Bug-less version of Code Folding

Michael Gapczynski

Project: ownCloud Sharing

Status: Sharing was merged into master. I'm almost finished and I am working on a few final UI components. I have plans to continue working on it after the release of ownCloud 2.0.

Project Proposal: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/mtgap/3001

Link (Blog): http://blog.gapinthecloud.com

Last blog post with screenshots: http://blog.gapinthecloud.com/2011/08/20/gsoc-new-sharing-interface-for-owncloud/

What was awesome about GSoC: I was welcomed into the ownCloud community and I was included in decisions about the design and components of ownCloud outside of my own GSoC work. I had a lot of fun and made money for my college education.

What I learned: I learned a lot about using git for version control and using classes and objects in php.

Jon Ander Peñalba

Project: KDE Demo

Links:

Milian Wolff

Project: C++2011 Support in KDevelop

Status: reading & implementing new spec

IRC nick: milian

Blog: http://milianw.de/blog

Links for Blog Posts:

http://milianw.de/blog/gsoc-c2011-support-in-kdevelop-part-1

Phaneendra Hegde

Project: Fancy Bookmarking for Konqueror and Rekonq using Nepomuk

Links (Proposal):

  http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/phaneendranh/13001

Links (Blog):

  http://pnhblog.tumblr.com/
  http://community.kde.org/Nepomuk/GSoC/2011/Journals/pnh

IRC nick:

  pnh (#nepomuk-kde)

Smit Shah

Project: Metadata Writeback using Nepomuk

Links (Proposal):

  http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/smitshah/1

Links (Blog):

  http://who828.wordpress.com/
  http://community.kde.org/Nepomuk/GSoC/2011/Journals/SmitShah

IRC nick:

Who

Zhang Jie

Project: Clone Tool for Image Editor in Digikam

Link (Proposal):

  http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/hybys/1001

IRC nick::

  zhjie

Yuvraj Tomar

Project: KDECore:Support for astronomical calendar systems

Link (Project): http://community.kde.org/KDE_Core/Astronomical_Calendars

Link (Blog): http://yuvrajtomar.blogspot.com

IRC Nick: yuvrajtomar

Harald Sitter

Project: QML Video Support for Phonon

Link (Project): http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/apachelogger/1

Links (Blog):

IRC Nick: apachelogger

Lucas Lira Gomes

Project: Integrate gpodder.net web service with Amarok podcasting functionalities

Link (Project): http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/llg/7001

Link (Blog): http://pinguimengenheiro.blogspot.com

IRC Nick: MaskMaster

Konstantin Oblaukhov

Project: *.osm file render for Marble

Project Details: http://marble.kosyak.info/

IRC nick: ObKo (#marble)

Mahfuzur Rahman Mamun

Project: Advanced text layout recognition engine in Okular

Short description: This project aims for the following improvements over okular's current selection mechanism

Create a document layout analysis system so that multicolumn text selection is supported.
Same Feature for text highlighting in case of annotation.
Text selection and highlighting should be document independent.
Bug fixes and code refactoring so that the code can be merged.

Status: All proposal features are completed. Improved some tiny issues additionally.

Link (Project): http://nightcrawlerinshadow.wordpress.com/

Link to KDE Git repository

Some screenshots:

Awesomeness of GSoC: Students can work on various fields depending on their choice and they can work on real life software development under some efficient guidance.

What I learned: Dividing a large task into smaller parts and time scheduling. Also, I believe my communication skill has improved.

IRC Nick: nightCrawler

IRC Channel: #okular on Freenode

Benjamin Girault

Project: Panorama Stitching Assistant for Digikam (Kipi Plugin)

GSoC Idea Link: KDE Wiki

Short Description: The goal is to develop an assistant that is able to use the command line tools from Hugin to process photos to be stitched into a panorama. The requirements are simplicity and easiness: the assistant should allow the user to open Hugin only in some special cases like non standard projection.

Screenshot(s):

Assistant Screenshots

Awesomeness of GSoC: Giving the motivation and a timeline to achieve a tool that I will be using in the future (and that I and the community was missing).

One Thing Learned: How to develop a kipi plugin.

SoK

Aaditya Chauhan

Project: Start-Up Speed Optimisation

Status: Still looking at Options and working out Possibilties.

Link (blog): http://aadityachauhan1.blogspot.com/2011/05/season-of-kde.html

IRC nick: Aaditya_Chauhan

Links:

http://aadityachauhan1.blogspot.com/2011/06/understanding-kde-launch-sequence.html

http://aadityachauhan1.blogspot.com/2011/06/understanding-systemd-part-i.html

http://aadityachauhan1.blogspot.com/2011/06/understanding-systemd-part-ii.html

http://aadityachauhan1.blogspot.com/2011/07/kde-timing-and-instrumentation.html

http://aadityachauhan1.blogspot.com/2011/07/startup-optimisation-with-bootchart.html

Aamir Khan

Project: Server-Server Synchronization in Owncloud

Link: http://www.owncloud.org

IRC Nick: syst3mw0rm

Puneet Goyal

Project: Making the Payment Detection Use Case in Alkimia

Status: Creating the test files

Link: http://community.kde.org/Alkimia/Usecases/payment

Link(Blog): http://summer-opensource.blogspot.com

IRC NICK: puneetgoyal

Amey Dharwadker

Project: Face Recognition in digiKam using embedded Hidden Markov Model (HMM)

Status: Written code for training embedded HMM in libface branch

Link: http://www.digikam.org/ , http://libface.sourceforge.net/

Afief Halumi

Project: Refactor KLettres and implement QML

Link: http://community.kde.org/KDEEdu/KLettres/SoC2011

Helder Oliveira

Project: Calligra Flow - Create an easy way to ordinary users make their own stencils.

Status: Creating ideas and verifying the possibilities.

Link (project): http://www.calligra-suite.org/flow/

Link (blog): http://helderc.wordpress.com/

IRC nick: Hutley

Shreya Pandit

Project: Web Browser element for Kexi forms, reports and Calligra documents

Link (Project): http://community.kde.org/Kexi/Junior_Jobs/Web_Browser_Form_Widget

Link (Blog): http://shreyapandit.blogspot.com/

Link (Blog): http://blogs.kde.org/node/4448

Link (Forum Archive): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/season-of-kexi

Felix Rohrbach

Project: Gluon: Statistics and Achievements

IRC nick: fxrh

Link (announcement): http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/gluon/2011-May/000006.html

Link (blog): http://fxrh.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/achievements-for-gluon/

Rajat Khanduja

Project: Kate: Improving the Modeline feature by providing a 'Modeline Editor'

Links (blog): (Newer ones appear at the top)
http://yetanothercomputermaniac.blogspot.com/2011/07/sed-reducing-effort-since-74.html
http://yetanothercomputermaniac.blogspot.com/2011/07/kates-variable-editor.html
http://yetanothercomputermaniac.blogspot.com/2011/06/software-projects-and-grep.html
http://yetanothercomputermaniac.blogspot.com/2011/06/season-of-kde-sok.html

Rohan Prabhu (irc: thirtySeven)

Project: Playlist sharing in Amarok // EtherMedia

Link: http://rohanprabhu.com/?p=192

Alessandro Cosentino

Project: Integrating Akregator, Akonadi and Owncloud.

Wiki Link: http://algorithmsforthekitchen.com/wiki/doku.php

IRC nick: zimba12 on Freenode

Status report: http://algorithmsforthekitchen.com/wiki/doku.php?id=report

Tushar Mehta

Project: Speed limit on KIO protocols

Link (Project detail): http://summertimekde.blogspot.com/2011/06/improvements-in-kio-file-transfer.html

Link (Project Update): http://summertimekde.blogspot.com/2011/08/rate-control-in-ftp-transfer-is-ready.html

Link (Blog): http://summertimekde.blogspot.com/2011/06/about-me.html

IRC nick: tushar_mehta

Rovin Bhandari

Project: Improving data analyzers in Strigi.

Link (Project Wiki): http://community.kde.org/SoK/2011/Strigi

Link (Blog): (none so far, will create one soon)

IRC nick: rovinbhandari / rovinbhandari1

Sourava Prasad Mishra

Project: Java Support in KDevelop!

Link (Project Wiki): http://kdevelop.org/

Link (Blog): Soon! As the project rolls down.

IRC nick: sourav7mishra

Brijesh Patel

Project: Providing References tool in Calligra Words

Link (Project Wiki):

      http://community.kde.org/SoK/2011/Calligra/Words/ReferencesTool#Introduction
      http://community.kde.org/SoK/2011/Calligra/Words/ReferencesTool#15.2F08.2F2011
      http://community.kde.org/SoK/2011/Calligra/Words/ReferencesTool#Screenshots

Link (Blog): http://kodewords.wordpress.com

IRC nick: erione

Smit Patel

Project: Providing References tool in Calligra Words

Link (Project Wiki):

      http://community.kde.org/SoK/2011/Calligra/Words/ReferencesTool#Introduction
      http://community.kde.org/SoK/2011/Calligra/Words/ReferencesTool#15.2F08.2F2011
      http://community.kde.org/SoK/2011/Calligra/Words/ReferencesTool#Screenshots

Link (Blog): http://kodetortuga.wordpress.com

IRC nick: smitpatel24

Naman Muley

Project: Developing a Map Based Contact List UI for Telepathy

Status: Working Around Marble , Designing the app

Link (Project Wiki): Coming up soon..

IRC nick: Dunce

Samir Hasan

Project: Mobile Billing System

Status: Starting to write code with the first version of developer documentation published

Link (Project Wiki): http://community.kde.org/Alkimia/Usecases/Billing

Link (Project Blog): http://www.incurlybraces.com/category/sok-mobile-billing-application

Project Progress:

1. http://www.incurlybraces.com/sok-mobile-billing-application-developer-documentation-ready.html

2. http://www.incurlybraces.com/sok-mobile-billing-application-some-mock-ui.html

IRC nick: sam1487

Seshagiri Prabhu

Project: Collage Creator tool (KIPI Plugin)

Link(Blog): http://seshagiriprabhu.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/sok-project-collage-creator-tool-kipi-plugin/

Status: Going through the source code.

IRC nick: seshagiri

Rushabh Gosar

Project: Working on Knights game

Link (Project Wiki): http://rushabhsportal.blogspot.com (not yet updated).

Status: Gone through the source code, waiting for Exams to end.

IRC nick: rushabhtechie55

Bhawna

Project: Fontwork Shape/Tool

Link(Project):http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas#Project:_Fontwork_Shape.2FTool

Link(Blog): -

Status: Looking at codes seeing how fontwork is implemented.

IRC Nick: bhawna

Antonio J. Gallo

Project: Integrate and distribute the GPL funambol server with ownCloud and its internal storage

Link(Project):http://www.owncloud.org

Status: Early integration of SyncML server as an ownCloud app: Done (at alpha status) Web interface to view an edit vcf (contact) files synced with the SyncML server integrated: Done Currently improving the SyncML server and working with Kunal into the client with the aim to sync any kind of file (like dropbox and so)

IRC Nick: antoniojgallo

Łukasz Spas

Project: http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas#Project:_Photo_Frame_Layouts

Link (Blog): http://coder89.wordpress.com/ (Not updated yet)

Link (github): http://github.com/coder89/PhotoFramesEditor - Daily updated project source.

Status: [Implemented]: main frame of app, canvas, photo and text items, stack of layers, undo commands, snap to grid functionality, exporting canvas to standard images formats, my own image format based on SVG, photo effects, and much much more... :P [In progress]: rotating and scaling tools, borders editor, dialog for choosing paper (canvas) sizes, canvas background editor.

Samikshan Bairagya

Project: Making KStars more useful for the scientifically inclined user.

Links (Blog):

http://samxan.wordpress.com/2011/08/20/dead-stars-for-kstars/

http://samxan.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/halleys-comet-is-no-longer-blinding/

http://samxan.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/sok-my-tryst-with-kstars/

IRC Nick: samxan

Status: Fixed the magnitudes for comets. Introduced Recently discovered supernovae to the skymap of KStars. Implementing a notification system for new supernovae discoveries.

Dhruv Patel

Project: Developing a Presentation-view tool for digikam with much more functionality than showing fullscreen image like see and edit image metadata.

Links (Blog):

http://community.kde.org/SoK/2011/digikam/presentation_view

http://www.digikam.org/

Supreet Pal Singh

Project: Developing a Presentation-view tool for digikam with much more functionality than showing fullscreen image like see and edit image metadata.

Links (Blog):

http://community.kde.org/SoK/2011/digikam/presentation_view

http://www.digikam.org/

Arvind S Raj

Project: Compatibility with Tomahawk player and also implement the features of Tomahawk in Amarok.

Status: Separating GUI elements out of libtomahawk

Links (Blog): http://goo.gl/2gP8T

IRC(freenode): dnivra

Farhad Hedayati Fard

Project: Design a lock screen for Plasma Active

Status: started moving screenlock from krunner to kwin

IRC nick: farhad_hf

Blog: http://www.digidesk.ir

Debajyoti Datta

Project: Implementation of Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in CMake

Status: Started

Project Details: http://www.elpauer.org/?p=684

IRC nick: Debajyoti

Blog Address: http://dbdatta.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/about-me/

Pankaj Bhambhani

Project: Development of Facebook Plugin for Choqok

Status: Choqok Facebook Plugin now uses Kfacebook (from Akonadi Resource )instead of its own helperlib

IRC nick: pankajb64

Blog Address: Season of KDE (2011)

What was awesome about SOK ? The fact that you could learn about so many different things so quickly and so easily and get to interact with so many people

One thing you learned Always keep you code readable :) There may be others using or editing it.

Snapshot Choqok Snapshot