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

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Jos Poortvliet
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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!

Jos, you're the best! Thank you. This is pretty much perfect imho. The
only thing I would remove or change is the first part of the last
paragraph. "arguably the most successful GSOC organization" is
probably true but sounds a bit... :P
I will forward you the email from Stephanie at Google who's handling
this so you can send it to her.


Cheers
Lydia

-- 
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
KDE e.V. Board of Directors / KDE Community Working Group
http://kde.org - http://open-advice.org

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