Season of KDE 2006

As in 2005, KDE again was a participating organization in this years Google Summer of Code 2006. Many interesting and much needed project ideas were submitted and students from all over the world began to apply for them. The KDE project received more than 200 student applications. Sadly Google's capacities are not limitless and thus, only 24 students were selected to participate in Google's Summer of Code under the mentorship of the KDE project.

Driven by the urge not to let many good applications go to waste the KDE project decided to give many of the rejected students a chance to realize their ideas after all in the first Season of KDE. Since KDE does not have Google's financial capacities the students will not get paid for their efforts. Still it is a very good opportunity for students to get involved in KDE development while being mentored by an experienced KDE developer and as a result be an active part of the Free Software Community.

Organization

Each student participating in the Season of KDE 2006 will work for four months on the assigned project. They will have a mentor from the KDE community to help them if any question arises or if they do not know how to continue.
In order to keep track of the student's progress there will be a mid-term report for each project which can be done by student or the mentor or both. This report should allow interested readers to get an overview of on going progress of the mentored students and their projects. By the end of the four month the projects should have reached a state in which they can be presented.

Timeline

10.07.2006	The student start work on their projects with the help of their assigned mentors.
10.09.2006	Mid-term: Students and mentors present the progress of their projects in form of a short report which will be made public on this page. There will be a presentation of the projects at aKademy 2006 in Dublin.
11.11.2006	Students present the result of their projects. Mentors give a short report on the success of the projects. Both will be made public on this page.

The Projects

Project	Student	Mentor
Phonon integration into Kopete	Carlo Segato	Matt Rogers
Kfitness	Greg DeAngelis	Michael Brade
Improving pattern rendering in okular	Rafael Rodriguez	Albert Astals Cid
Touchscreen application implemented in the K Desktop	Emmanuel Lesser	Olaf Jan Schmidt
Tabs (window groups) support in KWin (KDE Window manager)	Martin Böhm	Lubos Lunak
KMobile Tools: FileSystem integration	Marcin Przylucki	Stephan Kulow
K3b lite	Dusan Stefanovic	Sebastian Trueg
Kamion	Ivan Cukic	Thiago Macieira
Improving Wine support on the KDE desktop	David Sansome	Kevin Krammer
KNotes Improvement	Sheng Yang	Michael Brade
Adding Newsreader and XML Feed Aggregator Support to KMail	Luke Alan Sandell	Till Adam
Umbrello UML Modeller: Automatic fields order in UML elements	ño Sánchez	Jonathan Riddell
KOffice ClipArt Browser	Corey Latislaw	Carsten Pfeiffer
KMetaLibrary - Collection of API functions for storing and retrieving meta informations of media files	Dragan Jovev	Carsten Pfeiffer
A database modeller tool for KDE	Hugo Parente Lima	Jaroslaw Staniek
SeeByTouch	Klaus Rieger	Olaf Jan Schmidt

Contact

A Season of KDE Mailing list (season-of-kde@kde.org) has been set up for the participants to discuss problems or inform about their progress. This list is open to everyone.

For any questions regarding the "Season of KDE" please feel free to send an email to one of the project coordinators Pradeepto Bhattacharya or Sebastian Trüg.

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