Comments on: Announcing Season of KDE 2009

By: Lydia

Lydia — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:21:34 +0000

Duncan: You are aware that this is exactly what SoK is made for? To allow you to participate anyway? And really you are free to start working with KDE whenever you want. It is an open source project after all.
About removing the payment from Google: I think that is not a good idea as some of the GSoC students are only able to contribute to KDE this way and still be able to pay the rent.

By: duncan boyd

duncan boyd — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:58:22 +0000

Well, i think GSoc must rethink their strategy, to accept as many student as possible. because if you exclude some student, some of them good including me we will be left with no options but participate in competition that has a model to encourage student to be create and submit their work like the imagine cup of microsoft.

this can be done by, terminating the 4500 dollars payment. Open source is not about money in the first place. other wise GSoc will be doing the opposite of what they intended to do, promote open source.

duncan, cape town.

By: Lydia

Lydia — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:02:31 +0000

Yes that is correct. However there are a lot of other things to work on. So I am sure the Plasma team will find a nice task for you (Or if you rather work on another part of KDE then we sure can make that happen somehow as well.

By: Shantanu Tushar

Shantanu Tushar — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:23:02 +0000

Thats a good news, but another proposal has been accepted for the same idea for which I had given a proposal. So now that he will be working on it under GSoC, I won’t be able to work for the same application (PlasMate). If I’m wrong, please correct

By: Gregory Haynes

Gregory Haynes — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:15:19 +0000

Yes, we all know GSoC students really do it for the t-shirt.

By: life at the end of the universe » Amarok projects for GSoC 2009

life at the end of the universe » Amarok projects for GSoC 2009 — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:04:29 +0000

[...] do awesome work! I hope I can soon add the names of those who are going to take part in Season of KDE (and another super cool thingy we arranged which I can’t yet talk about) to this [...]

By: Lydia

Lydia — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:03:43 +0000

It might surprise you Jens but the money is not the most important thing for all of the students applying for GSoC.

By: Jens

Jens — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:13:57 +0000

“So students: please don’t forget that not being accepted for GSoC doesn’t mean you are not qualified/cool/good enough to work with us. It most likely just means we would have loved to accept you but couldn’t.”

It just means you won’t get any money

By: Lydia

Lydia — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:42:32 +0000

There are no strict time boundaries for SoK. However we ask you and your mentor to agree on some timeline of your choosing at the beginning so you have a goal to work towards.
I am sure we can give you some kind of certificate from the KDE eV stating that you have successfully taken part in SoK once you finished your project.

By: Harshit Jain

Harshit Jain — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:38:59 +0000

I would like to know that is there any time boundation for completing the project? Does any certificate will also be provided on completing the project?