Re: KDE and Google Summer of Code 2018

2018-01-19 Thread Marco Martin
On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 8:15 PM, Nate Graham wrote: > I've submitted an idea for System Settings: Improve handling for touchpads > and mice with Libinput Speaking of systemsettings, would be a good fit porting to qml some medium-to-big kcm? -- Marco Martin

Re: KDE and Google Summer of Code 2018

2018-01-15 Thread Nate Graham
I've submitted an idea for System Settings: Improve handling for touchpads and mice with Libinput https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/Ideas#Improve_handling_for_touchpads_and_mice_with_Libinput This is pretty important going forward since most distros are shipping with Libinput now, but our

Re: KDE and Google Summer of Code 2018

2018-01-15 Thread Dmitry Kazakov
Hi, Valorie! I have just edited the list of Krita ideas, now we have 8 ideas, 4 of which are low-hanging fruits with localized optimizations of the code. I hope that will help people who do not want to learn all half-million lines of Krita code. Speaking truly, I think I understand why

Re: KDE and Google Summer of Code 2018

2018-01-15 Thread Johnny Jazeix
Hi, on GCompris side, we hope/plan to mentor 2 students like last year. I updated the page to add one more task. Regarding the events: this year, we were planning to skip SoK to focus more on GCi and GSoC, having the 3 events is too consuming and do not allow us to progress on our main tasks.

Re: KDE and Google Summer of Code 2018

2018-01-15 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
I'm very discouraged to see so little movement on this. After skipping GCi this past fall, are we now also considering skipping GSoC? Or downsizing the number of students we are mentoring? Without Ideas we will not get students. More important, we must complete the Org application soon, and the

KDE and Google Summer of Code 2018

2018-01-11 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello GSoC mentors, and teams supporting mentors, TL;DR: Fill out https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/Ideas; read https://community.kde.org/GSoC. Now. Every year, we've asked for more time to get ramped up for GSoC, and so now is the time for organizations to apply[1]. We have begun to write our