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KDE Accepted To Google Summer of Code 2015
jrepin writes The KDE student programs team is happy to announce that KDE has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015. This will allow students from around the world to work with mentors on KDE software projects. Successful students will receive stipends from Google. Ideas on what a student entering Google Summer of Code 2015 with KDE might work on are listed on the Community Wiki.
Foxconn robots using systemd and patented algorithms working day and night to execute code.
Sort of like how a dying whale becomes beached on shore, bloated, bugs crawling over and 5 million lines of code to render a rectangle on a screen before quickly crashing the the x session moments later. Now Sundar ties money to a string and leashes his code.org student minions on the old whale KDE.
Oh man! That's awesome!
The purpose of existence is to make money.
How can KDE shed some of its bloat by using some of the services and API provided by Systemd?
No thanks. Not interesting in having my computer running code written by amateurs being mentored by other amateurs. I'll stick to OSes like Windows and OS X that are developed by professionals.
Visit http://www.google-melange.com/... to see all the organizations accepted.
I am associated with RTEMS, Network Time Foundation, and GCC all of which are also participating.
Learning Systemd and basic javascript (the require statement is about all) for nodejs is all you really need these days. Heck, if you want to go really low level you could contact your local code.org representative about learning Ruby but that stuff is like greek to me. Cheers
Looks like they jumped over an inch high bar, yes. The requirements pretty much seem to be:
1) Do you use an OSI approved license?
2) Do you have ideas for improvement?
3) Can you provide mentors?
4) Are you a somewhat popular, established project?
Then you're good. I mean there's many obscure mentoring organizations there I've never heard about.
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Write your own Slashvertisement pal. This is about KDE and child labor. Hijacking a thread is something Systemd would do. - not kool.
GCC, please move out of the way for clang. Sundar's got the reigns, Larry and sergay are too senile drunk with money to run the company anymore. you got a fat belly of middle managers.
There are several very good projects on the Wiki page. My favourites are probably:
Project: Port Amarok to Qt5/Kf5/Plasma5: Something I use every day.
Project: Port KSystemLog to use journald as a backend: With systemd it is actually possible to make a distro agnostic GUI log viewer that isn't just a "less" with windows decorations. I like using the CLI "journalctl", but a GUI, perhaps with some log watch support and real time panel notifications about "syslog level: Error" events and above would be nice.
Project: Implement PDF Poppler features: I like Okular very much, so more features like linearized pdf support would be nice.
Otherwise why are we talking here? Can someone please assist
Yeah, really an only inch high bar!
That is why Mozilla, Tor and others were rejected!
http://blog.queze.net/post/2015/03/03/Mozilla-not-accepted-for-Google-Summer-of-Code-2015
Why would a gay rights political organization such as Mozilla apply for GSOC?
I am pretty sure over 50% of the organizations that apply are not accepted in any given year.
The requirements you list are minimum ones. Speaking as an organization administrator for GSoC (and ESA SOCIS), there is a lot of work that must be done so an organization can do a good job with students. The ideas must be summer-sized projects with clear goals. You want an easy on-ramp for new developers with a welcoming community. You realistically need multiple mentors per student, to be responsive to those students, and to track them so they don't fall into a pit. You are also responsible for helping them set realistic mid-term and final goals that they can be evaluated against.
And this ignores helping promote the program, recruit students, and try to keep the students involved in your organization or free software in general after the summer is over.
If you haven't mentored or been an organization administrator for GSoC, then you don't know how seriously all organizations take being able to be prepared and do a good job for their students. The IRC meeting with discussions on why some organizations didn't make it this year is at: http://infobot.rikers.org/%23g.... It starts at 16:00. Not sure how much detail they got into. I just did a quick scan.
I'm wondering if there could be a project for the most "Systemd powered" distribution. How many packages can we trim and hand work over to Systemd?
As an example of how to screw your users with ever more bloated code, resulting in a dogmatic paradigm that is essentially my-way-or-the-highway?
Only slightly on-topic, but I've been using KDE plasma 5 since 5.2 came out. And it's great. I was a refugee escaping from Gnome 3 who went to XFCE for a few years. But that never completely satisfied me.
But KDE does now. Which is funny, because in the days of Gnome 2, I really didn't like KDE.
Free the Quark 3 from asymptotic confinement! Bring your charm! Don't get down! All colours and flavours welcome!
Maybe rthey can pay students yo remove it.
KDE will soon require systemd on linux.
The people doing this should be shot.
I hope they'll also have a look at the issues with KDM running under systemd because LightDM is not everyone's choice.
Although, Plasma5 replaces KDM with SDDM which does work with systemd.
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
... the world's largest repository of mostly abandonware. A huge number of projects (actually most, I would say about 97%) are started by a student and completely abandoned by the end of the summer or at most a semester.
Many of them with great potential, but never completed.