GSoC/2011/StatusReports
Status Report: GSoc and SoK 2011
GSoC
Name
Project: (Link to your project home page)
Link (Blog/Mailing List Archive): (Add more than one link if you feel)
Camila Ayres
Project: Umbrello UML Modeller QGraphicsView Port
Status Update: KDE-RS Blog (Brazil)
IRC Nick: camilasan
IRC Channels: #umbrello, #kde-brasil, #kde-women
Daker Fernandes Pinheiro
Project: QML Qt Components Set
Status Update: Documenting API and still fixing bugs before merging into master
Link (Blog): http://codecereal.blogspot.com/2011/05/plasma-components.html
Link (Blog): http://codecereal.blogspot.com/2011/07/back-to-plasma-components.html
Short description: The QtComponents project is aiming to provide an api and a series of widget sets completely based upon QML. the actual implementation is platform-dependent, so KDE needs its own platform specific set made with the plasma theming mechanism,for both the desktop and the mobile.
IRC Nick: dakerfp
IRC Channels: #kde-devel, #plasma, #pugpe, #kde-brasil, #qt-devel, #openbossa, #active
Daniel E. Moctezuma
Project: Improving the user experience in Kiten
Short description: This project aims for the following improvements
- Improve (or write a new) deinflection system.
- Add more search filtering options (word type filters, match ending, etc.)
- 'Update' feature for EDICT and KANJIDIC dictionaries.
- Write a Kanji Browser module to help users learn kanji.
- Bug fixes and code polishing.
Status: Completed and merged into master.
Link (Project): https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdeedu/kiten
Link to Git repository (on gsoc2011 branch)
Some screenshots:
Awesomeness of GSoC: All the work done by students in GSoC/SoK will have impact in Free Software and the world.
What I learned: Time organization is always important.
IRC Nick: dmoctezuma
IRC Channel: #kde-edu on Freenode
Srikanth Tiyyagura
Project: Tagging and Resource Management in Krita
Description: Abstract of my project
Status: Completed Resource Management, Tagging and Sketch Book Tagging.
Links for Blog Posts:
- My First week work.
- GHNS for preset resource in Krita.
- Enhancements in Krita GHNS utility.
- Resource Management for Presets in Krita.
- Finishing touches to Resource Management in Krita.
- Tagging in Krita.
- Tagging is almost done . . !
- Posted the review on tagging in Krita.
- Implementing Nepomuk as another backend for tagging..
- Two Backends for tagging in Krita
- Why Nepomuk in Krita . . .
- What I did in GSOC . . .
IRC Nick: sri13
IRC Channels: #krita, #calligra
Screenshot: picture contains both tagging and resource management
Awesome about GSOC: Working hard to get into gsoc and the guidance showed by KDE people (It's really great. . !)
Learned: Working out until get satisfied with the code and its functionality . . . ;)
Vishesh Yadav
Project: Mercurial Plugin for Dolphin
Links (Project):
http://vishesh-yadav.com/blog/
http://vishesh-yadav.com/blog/2011/06/10/mercurial-integration-in-dolphin/
http://vishesh-yadav.com/blog/2011/07/03/mercurial-plugin-for-dolphin-work-progress-part-1-2/
IRC: #[email protected]
Paul Mendez
Project: Improving management of slides in Calligra Stage
Link (Project): http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/paulms/16001
Link (Blog/Mailing List Archive): http://paulm-byte.blogspot.com/
http://paulm-byte.blogspot.com/2011/05/gsoc-2011-improve-of-slides-management.html
http://paulm-byte.blogspot.com/2011/06/gsoc-2011-calligra-stage-project-update.html
http://paulm-byte.blogspot.com/2011/07/gsoc-stage-slides-management-update-3.html
IRC: #calligra, #stage (paul_m)
Tirtha Chatterjee
Project: Implementation of tab grouping in Rekonq
Links:
http://thebengaliheart.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/gsoc-tab-grouping-in-rekonq/
http://thebengaliheart.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/live-and-dead-sessions-2/
http://thebengaliheart.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/thoughts-about-tab-grouping-in-rekonq/
Radek Wicik
Project: Map Browser element for Kexi Forms, Reports and Calligra documents
Link (Project): http://community.kde.org/Kexi/Junior_Jobs/Map_Browser_Form_Widget
Link (Blog): http://rockfordsone.blogspot.com
Link (Screenshot): [1]
![[1]](http://kexi-project.org/pics/2.4/alpha1/kexi-2.4-map-widget.jpg){kind=link}
Link (Forum Archive): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/season-of-kexi
What was awesome about GSoC ? ....
One thing you learned ....
Cyril Oblikov
Project: Improvements in KIO File Transfer
Link (Project): http://goo.gl/JvWHr
Link (Blog): http://munknex.net
Post: Errors Handling During File Transfer
Post: GSoC Results: Interaction Dialog
Awesome thing about GSoC: Working on with such an awesome FOSS community :) Also users feedback is a great pleasure.
One thing I learnt: kdelibs are very useful :)
Arthur Arlt
Project: Modularization of KWin Workspace
Link (Blog): http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/05/guest-post-a-hello-from-kwin-gsoc/
Link (Blog): http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/08/guest-post-crash-exam-relaunch/
Rafał Kułaga
Project: Printing support for KStars
Aim of the project: The aim of my project was to extend KStars printing support in a way that will enable users to print finder charts with logging forms, containing multiple field of view snapshots and details about observed objects, in a way that ensures both customizability and ease of use.
Status: All features from the proposal completed together with a few other features and fixes. Merged with master branch.
What was great about GSoC: What's great about GSoC is that it enables people to start contributing to Open Source projects in an organized way: with clear objectives, timeline and someone that will follow their progress and help them, if it's needed.
One thing I've learnt: Apart from the experience I've gained while working on actual coding, I believe my communication and project planning skills have improved.
Screenshots: In my summarising post: http://rkulaga.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/my-gsoc-2011-project-finished/
Link (Project): http://goo.gl/Q3aCM
Link (Blog): http://rkulaga.wordpress.com/
IRC nick: rkulaga
GTalk nick: rl.kulaga
Links:
http://rkulaga.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/printing-support-for-kstars-request-for-comments/
http://rkulaga.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/progress-report-and-information-about-mid-term-deliverables/
http://rkulaga.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/legends-annotations-done-fov-export-to-follow/
http://rkulaga.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/fov-export-finder-chart-and-legends-done/
http://rkulaga.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/my-gsoc-2011-project-finished/
Francesco Nwokeka
Project: Integration of kde-telepathy with the plasma workspace
Description: My project consisted in porting KDE-Telepahty to the plasma desktop with the aid of plasmoids.
Blog: http://nwoki.wordpress.com/
Irc: #[email protected] (nwoki)
Presence Plasmoid
KDE-Telepathy Alpha release post
Nepomuk QML Plugin for the ktelepathy library
KDE-Telepathy contacts
What was awesome about GSoC:
The GSoC is an excellent way to:
- get into real coding if you have no experience
- polish your coding skills
- get to know skilled and awesome people in the community
- get you further integrated in the KDE/Gnome community
but mostly of all, it gives you the opportunity to show your love and dedication for the project you're working with which was my case as I was already contributing code to KDE-Telepathy before the GSoC started and used this opportunity to show off some cool ideas I had.
One thing you learned:
Nothing is too hard to accomplish if you love what you do
Karan Pratap Singh
Project: KDE Plasma Educational Desktop
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
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/13
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 :
(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
a short project description or link to one: This project is intended to solve the tradicional lack of accessibility support of KDE applications by making KMail, Dolphin and Kopete are accessible. However, most of the work I've done has been in the qt-at-spi bridge (the bridge which allows Qt applications to be handled by accessibility tools) and Qt itself.
what was awesome about GSoC: Contributing to a Free Software project with other developers and seeing how the project was improving.
one thing you learned: Good communication between developers and organizing yourself well are at least as important as writing code.
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/
Link (Blog): http://archandkde.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/failure/
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
Status report: http://kate-editor.org/2011/07/26/vimode-gsoc2011/
Git: git://anongit.kde.org/clones/kate/kuzmich/kuzmich_gsoc_2011.git
What is awesome about GSoC? Experience of working with open source.
What did I learn? A lot about Vim, Regexp's and testing. It was my first TDD experience
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
What was awesome about GSoC: It's a great opportunity to work on what you like and what you want. You know, when you're doing what you like as your day job, it's a blessing for you. That's exactly what GSoC is about and what is awesome about it.
On the awesome things about GSoC for KDE - being able to dive full time in a project I love and I believe in, that's what I found as the most awesome thing.
One thing you learned: How important it is to be able to organize your time, especially when you're working at home. From the coding-side, I really learnt a lot, be it theoretical stuff, programming techniques and patterns etc. And lastly - I learned that KDE is a bunch of really cool people to which I want and proudly will belong to.
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:
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
Links (Blog): http://zhangjie-tobeme.blogspot.com/
IRC nick:: zhjie
What was awesome about GSoC: Do a project from the initial design to the program implementation and finally the program testing. It is a project that have all the parts, a complete project. I have full autonomy, though sometimes unexpected problems appear, I can't be more excited to go through all the parts.
What I learned: Do tests while programming is very important, not write over all codes then do tests as I did. Good coding habit is not very hard to form, but is very usefully and greatly benefit. It is the first time for me to switch coding from Windows to Linux, not as hard as I thought.
Yuvraj Tomar
Project: KDECore:Support for astronomical calendar systems
Documented Project Timeline: http://yuvrajtomar.blogspot.com
IRC Nick: yuvrajtomar
What was awesome about GSoC: The most awesome thing about GSoC was being a part of the enthusiastic KDE community and contributing to a project which kept me interested and motivated throughout the summer.
One thing that I learned: I learned not one thing in particular, but a lot of things over this summer, ranging fro concepts of astronomy to programming paradigms, and from implementing algorithms to learning a hands-on development role on something as huge as a global project.
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/
Some screenshots:
- Okular Text Selection djvu branch 4.7
- Okular Text Selection pdf branch 4.7
- Okular Text Selection djvu branch selection_and_highlighting
- Okular Text Selection pdf branch selection_and_highlighting
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):
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.
Bruno Morais Ferreira
Project: Krita: Advanced image selection using SIOX
Project Details: http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas#Project:_Advanced_selection_using_SIOX
IRC nick: brunomf
What was awesome about GSoC To make part of a great open source project, collaborating for something really nice.
One thing you learned Improved the ability of written by other people code handling.
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 and Reports
Link (Project): http://community.kde.org/Kexi/Junior_Jobs/Web_Browser_Form_Widget
Link (Blog): http://shreyapandit.com
Link (Screenshot): [2] (more at http://blogs.kde.org/node/4448)
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Link (Forum Archive): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/season-of-kexi
What was awesome about SoK ? ..
Well first of all I got a chance to contribute to and be a part of such an awesome community..I went to the Desktop Summit in Berlin this year,hacked with my mentor and other people in the calligra team and yes...got to do a lot of coding in my holidays this summer! :)
One thing you learned ....
Well...internals of Calligra....now it won't take me much time to get accustomed while doing anything new.I fine -tuned my basics,learnt to meet up deadlines....learnt from my mistakes.And yes.....I got a feel of what industry-level programming is like :D
Felix Rohrbach
Project: Gluon: Statistics and Achievements
Description: Adding an easy way for game developers to collect statistics and use them for achievements and create a nice UI for gluon players to show 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/
Screenshot (player): [3]
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What was awesome: Everything :) Especially having one project with strong support of the communuity and no discussions after two weeks of work about whether this feature should be merged into the project at all.
What I've learned: Motivation can replace quite a big part of the qualification needed for a project :)
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.
Link (Project Details):
Links (Blog+Screenshots):
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/
What was awesome about SoK and what I learned from this experience: Well SoK helped a long way in introducing me to real-world coding. I always believed that one should always do what is enjoyable as work. SoK reinforced my faith in it. Apart from learning so much about programming I was also introduced to a community of really cool people, always ready to help.
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
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
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.
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