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

On Wednesday 31 July 2013 08:11:27 Carl Symons wrote:
> 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.

Ok, I'll dump it :D


Thanks for the feedback, will send this to Google.
> Carl


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