Re: article about KDE's GSoC students on the Google Open Source blog

On Wednesday 31 July 2013 05:19:10 Lydia Pintscher wrote:
> Heya folks :)
> 
> We have a chance to publish an article about what our students are
> working on on Google's Open Source blog. Does anyone have time to
> write something? We really should take this opportunity.
> If you want to take this on
> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2013/StatusReports is probably very
> helpful.
> 
> Cheers
> Lydia
How about something like (feedback very welcome):

The ninth year the KDE community [1] participated in the GSOC saw again over 
50 student projects accepted. On top of that, 3 women participated through the 
Outreach Program for Women run by the GNOME Foundation [2]. And like last 
years, the KDE community organizes the 'Season of KDE' [3] for motivated 
students who's proposals didn't make it in either of the paid programs. 
Bringing innovation and teaching together, the KDE community takes the best of 
GSOC and makes it more.

Progress
With so many students and the kind request to blog regularly about progress, 
one can imagine that planet KDE [4] is rather flooded with GSOC related posts. 
And indeed it is, allowing the wider KDE community to follow the work done by 
the students and comment upon it. But this is not the only way the students 
share what they are doing! At the Akademy conference in Bilbao [5], many 
students were present, talking about their work in a full talk or as part of 
the Student Program Presentation [6]. Last but not least, students update the 
KDE wiki with the status of their project as well [7].

The students work on a wide variety of KDE projects, from components of the 
basic shell (network management) or even the core of that shell itself 
(dynamic switching between shells based on form factor changes) to end user 
applications. Some projects move out of the desktop sphere, with a web shop 
for the popular Krita painting application being developed, as well as a 
project report tool showing development statistics on KDE sub projects.

Projects are pushing the boundaries of technology, bringing in openGL and 
collaborative text editing in KDE applications or exploring unique interfaces 
for unique features like the human-friendly query parser for the Semantic 
Search technology in KDE.

Conclusion
As largest and arguably the most successful GSOC organization, the KDE 
community continues to push boundaries of technology. Through showing students 
how the process of collaboration and open innovation results in a great 
experience, the IT world gains valuable new participants. And they, in turn, 
get a chance to shine while making a valuable contribution to society!




[1] http://kde.org
[2] http://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen/2013/JuneSeptember
[3] http://www.sharpley.org.uk/blog/sok-2013
[4] http://planetkde.org
[5] http://akademy2013.kde.org
[6] https://conf.kde.org/en/Akademy2013/public/events/39
[7] http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2013/StatusReports


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