> :) practice makes perfect. I suggest writing a plasmoid and/or fixing some > more > bugs right away, to get more experience. feel free to ask us for help with > that.
Yes, I'll read the tutorial on writing a plasmoid on the kde techbase, and try. Thanks. > yeah, come to #plasma if you're not there already - lots of stuff happens both > here and there. what's your irc nick? I've joined the #plasma channel, my nick is Shaan7. 2009/2/20 Chani <chan...@gmail.com>: > On February 20, 2009 07:44:39 Shantanu Jha wrote: >> Hi, >> I wish to join the Plasma project Simple Media Center components or >> Plasmate. I'm using KDE since last year in November when I attended the >> Free and Open Source Software India FOSS.IN 2008 meet. I was a part of few > > welcome to plasma! :) > >> people who helped to setup the KDE stalls and other things. There KDE >> developers gifted us the book Qt Development Fundamentals by Johan >> Thelin, so that we'd be able to contribute to KDE. I've read a part of >> it - as of now, Widgets and Layouts, Main Window, Model-View framework >> and Creating Widgets. After that, I've spent till mid-February to >> build KDE from SVN trunk, so that I could apply the concepts. Building >> took lots of time, as I'm a newbie, but atlast I have the latest KDE 4 >> SVN build. >> I have not yet developed my own plasmoids, have only added a minor >> feature in the System Monitor - Network plasmoid, which didn't display >> the interface name before the fix. ( SVN commit 928770 by aseigo ) > > cool :) > >> >> I do accept I'm kind of a newbie at programming in Qt, and hence KDE, >> but am willing to learn, and have plenty of time, as due to some >> physical disabilities, I'm cut off from sports. I'm currently doing a >> Bachelor's degree in Computer Science And Engineering in Bangalore, >> India, and currently in 2nd of the total 4 years of the course. >> So, I wanted to know if I can participate in any of the projects? I >> noticed "Knowledge prerequisite: Knowledge of C++ and some familiarity >> with Qt, QGraphicsView related classes.". I accept that I currently >> have little experience with programming plasmoids and these, but I >> assure I'll work hard to learn whatever is required. > > :) practice makes perfect. I suggest writing a plasmoid and/or fixing some > more > bugs right away, to get more experience. feel free to ask us for help with > that. > the summer of code program was originally designed for people like you, so if > you keep in touch and keep learning and submit a thoughtful proposal, I think > you've got a good chance of being one of the lucky accepted ones :) > >> I can also talk >> on IRC, if its more comfortable to you guys :) > > yeah, come to #plasma if you're not there already - lots of stuff happens both > here and there. what's your irc nick? > > -- > This message brought to you by eevil bananas and the number 3. > www.chani3.com > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > > -- Shantanu Tushar http://www.shantanutushar.com _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
