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

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Lydia Pintscher <[email protected]> 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 will forward you the email from Stephanie at Google who's handling
> this so you can send it to her.
>
>
> Cheers
> Lydia

Jos, thank you for doing this.

Edited version attached...changes shown

Considering who would read this, I agree with Lydia about "arguably
the most successful GSOC organization". It begs for argument. If there
were some way to quantify "most successful", it could be stated more
directly.

Carl


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