KDE/Google Summer of Code 2010 (Part 1 of 2)
Dec 15, 2010, 13:35 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Lydia Pintscher)
"For the sixth time, KDE has mentored students as part of the
Google Summer of Code program. The students get to take their first
steps writing code for a Free Software project with a mentor by
their side for a summer. Once again our students have worked on
exciting projects that you will be able to see in the next releases
- many will even be part of the 4.6 releases. Forty-six and a half
of our fifty projects were finished successfully this year (the
half refers to one student who was offered an internship after the
midterm evaluation). This is the first of two articles looking at
what the students achieved:
"Cyril Oblikov worked on mindmapping in KOffice. He tells us: "I
produced a plugin which creates shapes with text. It lays them out
in a tree structure, so it can be used to represent this
widely-used IT data structure. My project is not really ready for
end users yet, but as I'm staying a KOffice developer, I'll
continue developing it."
"KMess plugin system
"Daniel Moctezuma developed a plugin system for KMess. He
explains: "Plugin system integration was a much requested feature
from users. It expands the limits of software and lets developers'
creativity flow to integrate new features." Daniel used the Kross
scripting framework, which allows developers to code plugins using
Python, Ruby and KDE Javascript. Daniel adds: "I have to say this
was a great summer. I learned more than I expected and had a lot of
fun messing with code, testing, documenting, learning, reading,
etc."
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