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

On Wednesday 31 July 2013 12:42:27 Lydia Pintscher wrote:
> 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 think we can and should be a bit arrogant, false modesty doesn't get you 
anywhere. But if you (and/or others) strongly object, I can change this part 
of course.

> I will forward you the email from Stephanie at Google who's handling
> this so you can send it to her.

Ok, once I've gotten one or more other comments on the text I'll forward it to 
her.

Hugs,
J

> 
> Cheers
> Lydia


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