Re: Proposal unify back our release schedules

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 9:39 AM Kevin Ottens wrote: > Hello, > > ::most history snipped:: > > And then have a single big marketing > announcement for a Plasma x.y.2 per year with its own marketing name. > > ::snip:: > > > * Only have one release announcement on our website. We can call

Re: [GSoC Mentors] GSoC 2024 open for org applications January 22 - February 6

I'm willing to remain on the list of co-admins, but will not be able to be more active than I was last year. Valorie On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 6:32 PM Johnny Jazeix wrote: > Hi, > > Are there people willing to help co-admin this year? It would be nice to > be at least 3 to share the workload. >

Fwd: [GSoC Mentors] GSoC 2022 Org Applications open Feb 7-21

A few changes to GSoC I want all KDE developers to be aware of. TLDR: we need both ~175 hr projects and ~350 hour projects included in the Ideas List. Please begin adding Ideas along with your own /team contact information NOW. https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2022/Ideas If you are willing to

New question on the KDE application for 2021 GSoC

The question is, how many of your 2020 GSoC students have been active in your community in the past 60 days? As a reminder, these are our students last year. If you know that one of these students has been recently contributing, or you are one of these students recently contributing (it does not

GSoC 2021 Ideas page skeleton is live

We have not yet updated the main page at https://community.kde.org/GSoC to accommodate the new rules and timeline. However, https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2021/Ideas is live, as a skeleton. I copied the /2020 page and removed all the ideas. If you are adding an idea, please remember to put your

Re: Mentors needed

tes. Concluding, he said that if > this is ok for us then he would also be ok to continue under these > conditions. > > Best, > Alexandra > > Στις Τρί, 5 Μαΐ 2020 στις 5:45 π.μ., ο/η Valorie Zimmerman < > valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> έγραψε: > >> Are we discussing the same st

Re: Mentors needed

able to comply. > > Best, > AlexandraB > > On Fri, May 1, 2020, 00:06 Timothée Giet wrote: > >> Le 30/04/2020 à 22:07, Timothée Giet a écrit : >> >> Le 30/04/2020 à 21:38, Valorie Zimmerman a écrit : >> >> Hello folks, we have a project about porting a

Re: Mentors needed

o comply. > > Best, > AlexandraB > That's unfortunate. Is is possible the student will still be able to work on this project part-time if we can find mentoring for him? Valorie On Fri, May 1, 2020, 00:06 Timothée Giet wrote: > >> Le 30/04/2020 à 22:07, Timothée Giet a écrit

Mentors needed

Hello folks, we have a project about porting a QtQuickControls module to QtQuickControls2 with only one mentor who marked "I want to mentor" on the GSoC webapp. If you have already signed into the GSoC webapp as a mentor, and would like to help out with this project, please mark "I want to

Additional mentors for GSOC project

Hi all, this was posted to a list I don't subscribe to, but Ralf is still needing some co-mentors, so am copy/pasting: Additional mentor for GSOC project searched > Ralf Habacker ralf.habacker at freenet.de > Wed Apr 8 11:40:42 BST 2020 > Hi, > for the appended GSOC project KDE organization wants

Re: Polish translation of "Cancel"

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 3:06 PM Luigi Toscano wrote: > Nate Graham ha scritto: > > [+ kde-devel mailing list since I don't know if I got the right > localization > > mailing list and couldn't find a polish-specific one] > > > > > > Hello translators, > > I don't speak any Polish, but it's come

Re: More GSoC Mentors needed

Hi Jean-Baptiste, On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 4:22 AM Jean-Baptiste Mardelle wrote: > On 01.04.20 00:11, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > > Hi Valorie, > > Did you get my email about me backing up Akhil for mentoring on Kdenlive > (sent on the 3rd of April) ? Seems many mails I send are

Re: More GSoC Mentors needed

Nico, Done. Ensure that you are subscribed to KDE-Soc-Mentor mail list. Thanks, Valorie PS: more backups needed! On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:06 AM Nicolas Fella wrote: > On Donnerstag, 26. März 2020 01:08:25 CET Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > > Hi folks, we have possibly enough primar

More GSoC Mentors needed

Hi folks, we have possibly enough primary mentors for GSoC this year, however the GSoC admins are urging us during these pandemic times, to have *two* backup mentors for each student. If you think you can help us out: 1. Subscribe to the KDE-Soc-Mentor mail list:

Re: ROCS project and GSOC

mentors! Arthur needs to get his proposal uploaded ASAP so he can get feedback on it. Valorie Att, > Caio Tonetti > > Em dom., 22 de mar. de 2020 às 04:05, Valorie Zimmerman < > valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> escreveu: > >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 1:

Re: ROCS project and GSOC

On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 1:28 PM Arthur wrote: > Hello everyone, > > My name is Arthur Moreira and I'd like to join the ROCS project as a > developer, and also to participate in the Google Summer Of Code 2020. > Recently, I've been talking offline with Caio Tonetti, who participated in > the

Re: GSoC Project

Hi Luis, On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 6:51 AM luis salomao wrote: > Hi everyone, > My name is Luis Salomão, and i would like to apply to a project on ROCS, > so i can participate com GSoC. > I am currently talking with Caio Tonetti on how to apply and reguarding > the project as well. > Great!

Re: start contribute to KDE

On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 11:20 AM Konrad Czapla wrote: > Hello everyone. > My name is Konrad and I come from Poland. > I love programming in C++, and I want to increase my programming skills, > that's why I would like to contribute to KDE and join to Your team. > I don't know how to start and I

Re: Fwd: gsoc ktoblzcheck

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 1:39 AM Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 10:12 AM Victor Kukshiev > wrote: > > > > I logged in, but Wiki don't allow access to Phabacker link. screenshot > https://imgur.com/4GropmI > > Hi Victor, > > I have investigated this and ascertained that this was

Re: Call for mentors and project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2020

Please forward and discuss the below with your teams! Let's get more teams mentoring and offering ideas in GSoC 2020. Valorie On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 4:43 AM Caio Jordão Carvalho < caiojcarva...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, people. > > Google has announced that GSoC 2020 organization applications

Re: Call for Mentors and Project Ideas for Season of KDE 2020

It's so great to see Caio stepping up to lead Season of KDE for the first time. Please everyone support him and help us onboard new contributors! Valorie On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 6:06 AM Caio Jordão Carvalho wrote: > Hello, everyone! > > After a one-year hiatus since the last edition of Season

Re: Work Branches

Hey Ben and developers, On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 7:11 PM Ben Cooksley wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently we had a discussion (which I think may have ended up spread > over a couple of mailing lists in the end) concerning branches and the > ability to force push to them. > > Current policy forbids

Re: Retirement of notes.kde.org

Hey Ben, On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 11:58 AM Ben Cooksley wrote: > Good evening all, > > Currently we're in the situation where the software we use to run > notes.kde.org is both difficult to maintain, as well as support (for > things like document confidentiality for various groups within KDE). >

Re: Tipping the apple cart?

at 2:53 PM Valorie Zimmerman < valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello folks, as you know, I'm not a coder. However, I'm interested in our > code quality, and there has been some observation that "lots of patches get > missed, and submitters get confused due to a la

Re: Tipping the apple cart?

at 2:53 PM Valorie Zimmerman < valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello folks, as you know, I'm not a coder. However, I'm interested in our > code quality, and there has been some observation that "lots of patches get > missed, and submitters get confused due to a la

Re: Tipping the apple cart?

On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 11:47 PM Kai Uwe Broulik wrote: > Hi, > > > In our move to Gitlab, we can do better. > > Given Gitlab emails contain even less information and context than > Phabricator which themselves contained even less information and context > than Reviewboard back then, I don't

Tipping the apple cart?

Hello folks, as you know, I'm not a coder. However, I'm interested in our code quality, and there has been some observation that "lots of patches get missed, and submitters get confused due to a lack of auto-populated reviewers" on Phabricator. Nate Graham has been adding groups to the reviewers

Tipping the apple cart?

Hello folks, as you know, I'm not a coder. However, I'm interested in our code quality, and there has been some observation that "lots of patches get missed, and submitters get confused due to a lack of auto-populated reviewers" on Phabricator. Nate Graham has been adding groups to the reviewers

Re: Thank you for selecting for GSoC 2019

On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 11:28 AM Prasenjit Kumar Shaw < shawprasenji...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Thank you KDE community for giving me the opportunity to participate in > Google Summer of Code 2019, with KDE. I have been selected for the > project "Data Sync for Falkon" >

Re: Last minute GSoC proposal with Roks - anyone interested in mentoring?

st: > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-soc-mentor. > > > > Valorie > > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 3:27 PM Valorie Zimmerman < > > > > valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I need comments on this proposal in the app, so I know where we are.

Re: Last minute GSoC proposal with Roks - anyone interested in mentoring?

been invited to the app, please write kde-soc-managem...@kde.org and tell us what google-connected email address you want us in use. Also, subscribe to KDE-Soc-Mentor mail list: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-soc-mentor. Valorie On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 3:27 PM Valorie Zimmerman

Re: Last minute GSoC proposal with Roks - anyone interested in mentoring?

tor for analitza so I’m not sure I can mentor two. But if > anyone can tag as “mentor”, I can be the actual mentor. > > Em qua, 10 de abr de 2019 às 10:13, Valorie Zimmerman < > valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> escreveu: > >> Cool. Now I need mentors to step up, or suggesti

Re: Last minute GSoC proposal with Roks - anyone interested in mentoring?

e 2019 às 09:37, Valorie Zimmerman < > valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> escreveu: > >> Thank you, Tomaz. <3 >> >> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 12:34 AM Tomaz Canabrava >> wrote: >> >>> Let me look, give me 30 minutes. >>> >>> >>> E

Re: Last minute GSoC proposal with Roks - anyone interested in mentoring?

Thank you, Tomaz. <3 On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 12:34 AM Tomaz Canabrava wrote: > Let me look, give me 30 minutes. > > > Em qua, 10 de abr de 2019 às 09:30, Valorie Zimmerman < > valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> escreveu: > >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at

Re: Last minute GSoC proposal with Roks - anyone interested in mentoring?

l and see if there is any chance of success. Valorie > Em qua, 10 de abr de 2019 às 04:24, Valorie Zimmerman < > valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> escreveu: > >> I'm unsure if this applicant contacted the KDE Edu team in advance, but I >> heard nothing from them unt

New GSoC proposal for KDE Partition Manager

Title: Finish mdraid implementation and implement dmraid Project Goals: Finish implementation of mdraid and polish current support Most of the features such scanning, creating and manipulating software raid have been completed. My first goal would be to finish resizing of raids and then working

Last minute GSoC proposal with Roks - anyone interested in mentoring?

I'm unsure if this applicant contacted the KDE Edu team in advance, but I heard nothing from them until seeing this proposal this morning. The short description of the proposal: "As a student, I use graphs in almost everything related to my master’s research. Graph Theory is a great mathematical

Re: New KDE-Edu proposal not on the Ideas list -- are there mentors?

te: > I’m talking to her and apol. > I’ll step up to be her mentor. > > > Em dom, 7 de abr de 2019 às 05:28, Valorie Zimmerman < > valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> escreveu: > >> Hi everyone, today we had a new proposal called "Improving Khipu and >> Anal

New KDE-Edu proposal not on the Ideas list -- are there mentors?

Hi everyone, today we had a new proposal called "Improving Khipu and Analitza." Since this was not put up as an Idea by KDE-Edu, there are not now mentors. If this is a good student and proposal, please consider stepping up to mentor or co-mentor. The student is Karina Pereira Passos who has

Purpose GSoC mentors please

Please login to the GSoC webapp, go to Proposals, and find your possible student's proposal. Click on "Read in Docs" and comment on that draft. Afterwards, comment to the other mentors and admins in the webapp (scroll down). Today. Time is of the essence. The student and I both need feedback not

Re: Introduction for GSoC: Koundinya

Hello Venkata Rama Koundinya Lanka, On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 10:22 PM Venkata Rama Koundinya Lanka < venkataramakoundinya1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > My name is Venkata Rama Koundinya Lanka. I am a final year engineering > student from India. My key skills include android development,

Is the GSoC Ideas list page still open? YES

We got a question today about the Ideas page - https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2019/Ideas - is open for more ideas. YES! We were accepted as a GSoC org and we are open for business. Prepare to be inundated by students wondering how to make themselves useful to you; please make them welcome and

Re: GSoC 2019: Project Proposal for a New Game

On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 3:24 AM Pranam Lashkari wrote: > On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 4:43 PM Stefan Derkits wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> You can also write the full proposal and then find a mentor, maybe it's >> easier that way around. >> > > Surely, I'll look forward to it. Thank you for your help. > Hi

Re: GSoC Ideas page

vel expected of students? Is it reasonable to assume > they should be able to figure out reasonably complicated problems on their > own, like getting Windows set up for development? > > Thanks, > Simon > > On 1/30/19 12:51 AM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > > Hi all, tonig

GSoC Ideas page

Hi all, tonight I've moved the project headings which were empty of ideas from the 2019 page. I pasted them into the end of last year's Ideas page [1] in case some of you (choqok, kopete, kdevelop, kgpg, kwin, peruse, plasma, wikitolearn) are going to add ideas late and want those headers back. I

Re: GSoC org application time

Now I see that I neglected the link to the Ideas page. :( Here it is: https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2019/Ideas On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 11:24 PM Valorie Zimmerman < valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, I've started our application. > > The deadline for applications: F

Fwd: Request from Finland

Hi all, is there a better list for this inquiry? If so, please forward it there. Valorie -- Forwarded message - From: edward krogius Date: Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 9:04 AM Subject: Request from Finland To: Hello ! In Finland the upper secondary national examination board provides

Google Summer of Code Ideas

Hi folks, a few teams have added their ideas to https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2019/Ideas but many have not yet done so. Those of you reading this plea have participated in the past but do not have ideas posted yet. PLEASE get this done before the end of the year! We need to submit our

Ideas for GSoC

Hi folks, a few teams have added their ideas to https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2019/Ideas but many have not yet done so. PLEASE get this done before the end of the year! We need to submit our application January 15 2019 which is about one month away. Please don't make me write to every

Fwd: Google Summer of Code

Oops, forwarding because I forgot to CC KDE-devel too. To: KDE community Cc: Kde Soc Mentor I know it's only December, but GSoC is beginning earlier this year on the organization end, at least. Now is the time to join the mentor's list if you may mentor, and for all teams who want to mentor to

D16588: Change package manager icons to emblems

valorie added a comment. Could not Muon be updated in this way as well? It now uses a package icon for all packages which seems a waste of space. REPOSITORY R266 Breeze Icons BRANCH package-manager-icons (branched from master) REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D16588 To:

D16395: Update the "About KDE" text

valorie added a comment. My only suggestion: KDE creates the efficient, powerful Plasma desktop environment, hundreds of high-quality applications and the many software libraries that support them. Past tense makes the present version seem static. REPOSITORY R263 KXmlGui REVISION

Google Code-in

Hello folks, we are still very low on mentors (only 11 have signed up so far) and tasks: about 45 at last glance. Please get with your teams and find some more mentors, and get creative with some tasks. Assign writing some unit tests! Get some bug reports tested! Help kids get your application

Google Code-in

Hello folks, GCi is much earlier this year, so we need to gather tasks NOW. The org application period is now open, and I see a good start on tasks on https://community.kde.org/GCi. However, they are all from GCompris! Please look over their tasks and copy some for your own project! Yes, this

Welcome GSoC students!

On the Dot: https://dot.kde.org/2018/05/18/welcome-our-new-google-summer-code-students Please spread via social media. Valorie -- http://about.me/valoriez

Re: Latte Dock and tangerine font

This discussion is icky to me. 1. I do not want to login to Github to discuss a KDE project 2. We are not engaging with the authors and maintainer to make this application fully within the KDE community (which includes licensing) 3. The discussion is about licensing instead of helping to

Now is the time for all prospective GSoC mentors to gear up!

Hello everyone, our application to become a part of Google Summer of Code has been accepted! So, if you are going to become a mentor, now is the time to: 1. Ensure you are subscribed to KDE-Soc-Mentor mail list [1]. 2. Write to kde-soc-men...@kde.org to be invited to the GSoC web app. This way

Re: KDE and Google Summer of Code 2018

to it for the last email. Valorie On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 3:03 PM, Valorie Zimmerman < valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello GSoC mentors, and teams supporting mentors, > > TL;DR: Fill out https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/Ideas; read > https://community.kde.org/GSoC

Re: Looking for mentor for new KDE developer

Hi, adding kde-community as this is actually a community matter as well as a -devel issue. On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 3:15 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El dilluns, 8 de gener de 2018, a les 0:07:00 CET, Albert Astals Cid va > escriure: > > El dilluns, 8 de gener de 2018, a les

KDE and Google Summer of Code 2018

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

KDE and Google Summer of Code 2018

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

Google Summer of Code -- now!

Hello folks, I know that some of you are just beginning to mentor your Season of KDE students. However, Google has made the prep phase for GSoC even earlier this year, so it is time to start NOW. For more information: https://g.co/gsoc/faq More:

Re: Frameworks release schedule?

t >> >> Regards. Hi Laurent, I thought that frameworks-devel was being deprecated but I guess I'm out of the loop. So thanks. >> Le mercredi 25 octobre 2017, 09:29:58 CEST Valorie Zimmerman a écrit : >>> Hello folks, with my Kubuntu release manager hat on, I was filling in

Re: Frameworks release schedule?

t >> >> Regards. Hi Laurent, I thought that frameworks-devel was being deprecated but I guess I'm out of the loop. So thanks. >> Le mercredi 25 octobre 2017, 09:29:58 CEST Valorie Zimmerman a écrit : >>> Hello folks, with my Kubuntu release manager hat on, I was filling in

Frameworks release schedule?

Hello folks, with my Kubuntu release manager hat on, I was filling in the calendar for the next 6 months. For Frameworks, this page: https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Frameworks is now on a provisional schedule - 5.40 (expected) Sat November 4th, 2017 for tagging, (expected) Sat November 11th,

Re: Add your tasks to the Idea page for GCI

Yes, as I said in a previous mail, since no experienced admin stepped up to take the lead, we'll not participate in GCi this year. We would like to have a Season of KDE however. So admins and mentors, please ensure you are on KDE-Soc-admin (this includes former GSoC students!) and ping one of us

Re: Participation of KDE in GCI 2018

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 1:04 AM, Bhushan Shah wrote: > Hey Vijay, > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 01:42:31AM +0530, vijay krishnavanshi wrote: >> My opinion is that we should participate. Thoughts? > > My personal opinion about GCI this year is we should take a rest this > year,

Re: Is there interest in participating in Google Code-in this year?

I feel sorry to hear that. > I could give it a try on the mentorship. I just don't know if I'm good > enough to fill the purpose. > Cheers > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Valorie Zimmerman > <valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello folks, wh

Is there interest in participating in Google Code-in this year?

Hello folks, when I've written about GCi before this, I got few to no replies. My feeling is that previous enthusiastic mentors are without the energy and time to participate this year. Org applications are open, but unless I hear a swell of enthusiasm here, I'm inclined to not apply. Thoughts?

Re: time to review the goal proposals

Wow, this is a GREAT lineup of possible goals. It will be difficult to choose just one. On the other hand, we will have this list as a resource when it's time to choose the next goal. Great work! On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hey folks :) > > A little

17.08 Applications Release announcement text

Hello folks, I noticed that there was not much progress on the release announcement text, and I had some time last night, so I worked up an announcement text based on those we've had in the past, and the notes left by developers on https://notes.kde.org/p/applications_17.08_new_features . I found

NOW is the time to fill in the Ideas page for GSoC! Application deadline 9 Feb.

Hello GSoC mentors, and teams supporting mentors, We've asked for more time to get ramped up for GSoC, and so the calendar has been moved back to early February. However, that means that our Ideas page needs to be filled NOW, so that it can be taken into consideration once the Org Applications

NOW is the time to fill in the Ideas page for GSoC! Application deadline 9 Feb.

Hello GSoC mentors, and teams supporting mentors, We've asked for more time to get ramped up for GSoC, and so the calendar has been moved back to early February. However, that means that our Ideas page needs to be filled NOW, so that it can be taken into consideration once the Org Applications

NOW is the time to fill in the Ideas page for GSoC! Application deadline 9 Feb.

Hello GSoC mentors, and teams supporting mentors, We've asked for more time to get ramped up for GSoC, and so the calendar has been moved back to early February. However, that means that our Ideas page needs to be filled NOW, so that it can be taken into consideration once the Org Applications

Re: As Google Code-in ends, time to plan for Google Summer of Code

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've just finished preparing the new Ideas page for 2017: > https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2017/Ideas > > It is basically the same as every other year, and has no previous > ideas

Re: As Google Code-in ends, time to plan for Google Summer of Code

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've just finished preparing the new Ideas page for 2017: > https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2017/Ideas > > It is basically the same as every other year, and has no previous > ideas

As Google Code-in ends, time to plan for Google Summer of Code

I've just finished preparing the new Ideas page for 2017: https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2017/Ideas It is basically the same as every other year, and has no previous ideas on it. If you or your project plan to present a former idea again, click on the 2016 Ideas link, and copy/paste it into the

As Google Code-in ends, time to plan for Google Summer of Code

I've just finished preparing the new Ideas page for 2017: https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2017/Ideas It is basically the same as every other year, and has no previous ideas on it. If you or your project plan to present a former idea again, click on the 2016 Ideas link, and copy/paste it into the

GCi ending; Google Summer of Code preparations

Hello folks, Last fall, some of us attended the GSoC Mentor Summit, and one of the things we asked for was more time between the beginning of the contest to "Coding begins." It looks like we got our wish. I just looked at the timeline, which says: * January 19 16:00 UTC Mentoring organizations

Google Code-in tasks -- we need them NOW

Hello folks, November 28th looms, and we are below our needed task count. * If you have already been invited to the GCi webapp, please get your tasks into the system now. We especially need beginning tasks, which can be the same as tasks last year, and they can be reused as often as we need them.

Google Code-in begins soon: Nov. 28, 2016

Hello folks, we've finally worked out a glitch in getting me as one of the org admins for GCi. I was greeted by this message when logging in: Welcome back Contest begins: November 28, 2016 You have 19 days to create your minimum of 75 tasks for the initial launch and invite and assign mentors

Fwd: [GSoC Mentors] Announcing Google Summer of Code 2017 and Google Code-in 2016

Hello folks, it is time to start thinking of tasks you would like students to do this fall-winter. Remember, these tasks are for teens who are dealing with schoolwork and teen life, so they need to be small enough to be done within a day or two. In addition, we always need "beginner" tasks, for

Re: Season of KDE -- please add your ideas

On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 12:32 AM, Alexander Semke wrote: > Hi Valorie, > >> Projects from past Seasons of KDE include new application features, >> the KDE Continuous Integration system, new reporting for developers, a >> web framework, porting and a lot of other work. > We

Season of KDE -- please add your ideas

Hello developers, Do you have a project in mind which will help KDE? Season of KDE might be for you. KDE Student Programs has announced the 2016-2017 Season of KDE for those who want to participate in mentored projects which enhance KDE in some way. Projects from past Seasons of KDE include new

Season of KDE -- please add your ideas

Hello developers, Do you have a project in mind which will help KDE? Season of KDE might be for you. KDE Student Programs has announced the 2016-2017 Season of KDE for those who want to participate in mentored projects which enhance KDE in some way. Projects from past Seasons of KDE include new

Mentoring, student programs coming up

Hi folks, I have no announcements, but was thinking about our Season of KDE and how we can enlarge and improve it. I believe we've been thinking of it too much like GSoC, when it can be so much more. For instance, I've seen a few announcements from maintainers wanting to step back from a large

Mentoring, student programs coming up

Hi folks, I have no announcements, but was thinking about our Season of KDE and how we can enlarge and improve it. I believe we've been thinking of it too much like GSoC, when it can be so much more. For instance, I've seen a few announcements from maintainers wanting to step back from a large

links on https://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Sources/en

Hi folks, someone in #kde-www mentioned at many links to projects.kde.org are still on techbase, so I logged in and started cleaning them up. This page: https://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Sources/en has loads of links, and I don't seem to be able to find Quickgit alternatives. Examples:

Ranking and mentors needed for GSoC student

Hello to all readers. I'm writing to you to ask you to mentor this student who needs a primary mentor. The Dolphin maintainer and community can't step up and do this, although the maintainer can help. Pinak Ahuja has offered to be backup co-mentor already. Anyone somewhat familiar with Baloo

Re: GSoC 2016 Proposal for KDE Dolphin

Hi all, especially Dolphin and Baloo devs, On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Arnav Dhamija wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I'm excited to give the GSoC a shot this year. I am a first CSc > undergraduate at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus in India. I have an original > idea for the

Re: KDE file dialog

I realize I'm slightly orthagonal to the original topic, but On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 11:14 PM, Kai Uwe Broulik wrote: > Hi, > >> Distributions set up distribution-wide "Sans", "Serif" and "Monospace" >> aliases for a reason. The fonts are carefully selected by the

Re: Google Summer of Code 2016 - C# bindings for Qt

Hi all, On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > Hi Joao, > > On Thursday, March 03, 2016 19:36:05 Joao Matos wrote: >> Hi Sebastian and the rest of the KDE community, >> >> I'd like to propose to mentor Dimitar but I have no idea what the policy of >> the KDE

Re: Google Summer of Code 2016 - C# bindings for Qt

Hi all, On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > Hi Joao, > > On Thursday, March 03, 2016 19:36:05 Joao Matos wrote: >> Hi Sebastian and the rest of the KDE community, >> >> I'd like to propose to mentor Dimitar but I have no idea what the policy of >> the KDE

Re: KDE has been selected as a Google Summer of Code 2016 mentor organization

Just as a reminder On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yesterday we got the email we'd been waiting for, beginning: > "Congratulations! KDE has been selected as a Google Summer of Code > 2016 mentor organization. &

Google Summer of Code Ideas needed now

Org applications open on 8 February, so we need to get moving on this. Unfortunately, our wikis are close for editing right now, because of two spam attacks. Until they are open again, we have a Google Doc. Google Summer of Code 2016 Ideas page is here: https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2016/Ideas .

Re: Saying hello

Hello to both of you, Christian and Ayrton. Most people here got involved as you are doing, either creating or helping to create some project, or fixing a favorite bit that needs some love. Be sure to also join the KDE Community list, and also specific lists and IRC channels corresponding to your

Re: Change to Mail Infrastructure - SPF and DKIM verification will now be enforced

I just submitted a request to Ubuntu to upgrade their list infra. I showed Ben a sample email header and they were not compliant. I included a link to Ben's explanatory post: http://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel=144956641505429=1 It took less than five minutes to file the ticket. All the best,

Re: Change to Mail Infrastructure - SPF and DKIM verification will now be enforced

Can we please lower the temperature on this discussion a bit? On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 1:54 AM, Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 4:37 AM, Jan Kundrát wrote: >> On Tuesday, 8 December 2015 16:09:43 CET, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: >>> >>> It is irrelevant

Re: Sprint: Reorganize the wikis

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Olivier Churlaud wrote: > Hi, > > I'm coming here with this observation: the wiki are quite a mess. And very > often KDE4 and KF5 things are mixed. > That everyone do it at their scale is impossible. That's why I have a > proposition. (I've

Re: Review Request 126078: [OS X] modernising the KIdleTime plugin (WIP!)

, I'm seeing defensiveness, exasperation, and finally anger. Please, everyone step back, calm down, and let's reconsider the issue afresh. Surely we can do a better job in providing great software to our users. - Valorie Zimmerman On Nov. 18, 2015, 4:35 p.m., René J.V. Bertin wrote

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