Re: Proposal unify back our release schedules

2024-04-20 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 it

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

2024-01-09 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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

2022-02-03 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 mento

New question on the KDE application for 2021 GSoC

2021-02-13 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 h

GSoC 2021 Ideas page skeleton is live

2020-12-04 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 ow

Re: Mentors needed

2020-05-05 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 discuss

Re: Mentors needed

2020-05-04 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 Qt

Re: Mentors needed

2020-05-04 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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

Mentors needed

2020-04-30 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 mentor"

Additional mentors for GSOC project

2020-04-19 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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"

2020-04-16 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 to

Re: More GSoC Mentors needed

2020-04-08 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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

2020-03-31 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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

2020-03-25 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listi

Re: ROCS project and GSOC

2020-03-22 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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

2020-03-22 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 proje

Re: GSoC Project

2020-03-18 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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! That

Re: start contribute to KDE

2020-03-04 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 nee

Re: Fwd: gsoc ktoblzcheck

2020-02-25 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 ca

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

2020-01-17 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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

2019-11-08 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 of

Re: Retirement of notes.kde.org

2019-09-15 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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: Thank you for selecting for GSoC 2019

2019-05-07 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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" > (https://summe

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

2019-04-13 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
or mail list: > > 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 wher

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

2019-04-13 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
ve not yet 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

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

2019-04-10 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
a mentor 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 suggest

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

2019-04-10 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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?

2019-04-10 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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?

2019-04-10 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
nd 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 until see

New GSoC proposal for KDE Partition Manager

2019-04-09 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 o

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

2019-04-09 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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?

2019-04-07 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
wrote: > 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 >>

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

2019-04-06 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 contri

Purpose GSoC mentors please

2019-04-06 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 j

Re: Introduction for GSoC: Koundinya

2019-04-05 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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

2019-02-27 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 help

Re: GSoC 2019: Project Proposal for a New Game

2019-02-05 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 Pr

Re: GSoC Ideas page

2019-02-02 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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, tonight

GSoC Ideas page

2019-01-29 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 a

Re: GSoC org application time

2019-01-17 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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:

Re: GSoC org application time

2019-01-17 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 12:25 AM Paul Brown wrote: > On Thursday, 17 January 2019 08:24:37 CET Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > > Hi all, I've started our application. > > > > The deadline for applications: February 6, 2019 at 12:00 (PST). > > > > By the d

GSoC org application time

2019-01-16 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi all, I've started our application. The deadline for applications: February 6, 2019 at 12:00 (PST). By the deadline, we need to have an absolutely *splendid* Ideas page (1). Before the deadline, I'll remove all the placeholders such as teams with no Ideas listed, or ideas with no mentors listed

Fwd: Request from Finland

2019-01-12 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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

Ideas for GSoC

2018-12-12 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 application

Fwd: Google Summer of Code

2018-12-03 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 a

Google Code-in

2018-10-04 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 ins

Google Code-in

2018-09-08 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 con

Welcome GSoC students!

2018-05-18 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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

2018-02-27 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 improve

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

2018-02-13 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 we

Re: KDE and Google Summer of Code 2018

2018-01-15 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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

Re: Looking for mentor for new KDE developer

2018-01-14 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 8:15:54 CET, Ben Coo

KDE and Google Summer of Code 2018

2018-01-10 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

Google Summer of Code -- now!

2017-12-26 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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: http://write.flossmanuals.net/gsoc-mentoring/about-t

Re: Frameworks release schedule?

2017-10-25 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
t, 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 >>> the calendar for th

Frameworks release schedule?

2017-10-25 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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, 20

Re: Add your tasks to the Idea page for GCI

2017-10-24 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 a

Re: Participation of KDE in GCI 2018

2017-10-23 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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, this is due to two rea

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

2017-10-12 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
; 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 > wrote: >> >> Hello folks, when I've written about GCi before this, I got few to no >

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

2017-10-12 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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

2017-10-03 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 over a month ago

17.08 Applications Release announcement text

2017-08-16 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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.

2017-02-01 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 are

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

2017-01-19 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Valorie Zimmerman 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 on it. If you or your project plan

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

2017-01-13 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 20

GCi ending; Google Summer of Code preparations

2017-01-07 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 ca

Google Code-in tasks -- we need them NOW

2016-11-23 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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

2016-11-09 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 to

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

2016-10-11 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 ki

Re: Season of KDE -- please add your ideas

2016-10-08 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 would benefit a lot from

Season of KDE -- please add your ideas

2016-10-08 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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

2016-09-20 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 pie

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

2016-05-20 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:06 AM, Olivier Churlaud wrote: > Le 18/05/2016 à 02:07, Valorie Zimmerman a écrit : > >> 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

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

2016-05-17 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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: "Th

Re: GSoC 2016 Proposal for KDE Dolphin

2016-03-10 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 Dolphin file manager to m

Re: Gsoc 2016 - BrPrint3D proposal

2016-03-08 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 5:31 AM, Lays Rodrigues wrote: > Morning Valorie and Alexander. > > I deleted the file from my gDrive archives. Because I will not participate > of this year Gsoc anymore. Sorry for this trouble. > > Regards, > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 3:

Re: Gsoc 2016 - BrPrint3D proposal

2016-03-06 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:24 AM, Lays Rodrigues wrote: > Hi guys, good morning! > I'm sending to you attached my gsoc proposal for this year. > Is only a draft, but for now I wish that this draft should be revised for > you. > ​ > Gsoc 2016 Proposal.pdf >

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

2016-03-05 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 project >> is regar

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

2016-03-04 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Just as a reminder On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Valorie Zimmerman 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. > > Please click here to visit

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

2016-03-01 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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. Please click here to visit your organization profile and start adding mentors." That last bit is new. If you plan to mentor, please 1. Message

Re: GSoC Application Deadline is Feb. 19! Get your ideas in ASAP

2016-02-14 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Ooops, I used the GCi ideas page, rather than GSoC: https://community.kde.org/GoogleCodeIn/2016/Ideas On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > We like to make the application at least one day early, and our ideas > page is part of what supports our application. Please ma

GSoC Application Deadline is Feb. 19! Get your ideas in ASAP

2016-02-14 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
We like to make the application at least one day early, and our ideas page is part of what supports our application. Please make our position strong, and set yourself up to get a great student to mentor this summer! For now, Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k1ESLkh6-0Hz4rGR02yEasjj

Google Summer of Code Ideas needed now

2016-02-05 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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

2016-01-05 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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

Google Code-In - Coding tasks needed!

2015-12-28 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, we have a bit less than one month to the end of GCi, January 25. We do have 71 claimable tasks, but very few coding tasks, and students are asking for these. If you have not yet mentored or created a task, and would like to dive in, please ask in #kde-soc on IRC if you need help, or o

Re: [kde-community] Sprint: Reorganize the wikis

2015-12-07 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 4:11 AM, Olivier Churlaud wrote: > So I answer to all :) > > Le 07/12/2015 01:20, Valorie Zimmerman a écrit : >> >> On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Olivier Churlaud >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I however woul

Updating list of Applications offered by the KDE community -- time sensitive

2015-12-06 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, Nicolas had the excellent idea to improve the Applications part of the front page of our site, https://www.kde.org. Many if not most of the screenshots are out-of-date, which gives an inaccurate view to the casual visitor about our applications. He wants to mentor GCi students to take

Re: Re: Sprint: Reorganize the wikis

2015-12-06 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
ce. Recently CERN has offered space in Geneva -- can we join in this sprint with WikitoLearn? Naturally this could fit into the Randa meetings too, but those are many months away now. Valorie > Cheers > Olivier > > > Le 05/12/2015 22:45, Valorie Zimmerman a écrit : >> &g

Re: Sprint: Reorganize the wikis

2015-12-05 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 thought about it for a wh

Re: Google Code-in

2015-11-17 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
s, each prospective mentor created their account on Melange, and then asked to be a KDE mentor. We'll be able to give the Google folks our feedback at the end of the contest. Valorie > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Valorie Zimmerman > wrote: >> >> Hello folks! We'

Google Code-in

2015-11-16 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks! We've been accepted as one of the mentoring organizations for GCi. So now we need prospective mentors to 1. subscribe to kde-soc-mentor list [1], then 2. write to one of the admins or to the mentor ML asking to be invited to be an admin, and providing us a gmail account, which will be

Fwd: SoK Ideas page

2015-10-18 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, I've just looked at https://community.kde.org/SoK/Ideas/2015 and still see very few ideas. In contrast, the GSoC page has loads [1]! Please, if you are willing to mentor, copy some of those GSoC ideas, if they are appropriate, to the SoK page. I sent this to kde-soc-mentor ML with lit

Re: Need help

2015-10-06 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 5:24 AM, Praneeth Tss wrote: > My name is Praneeth . I just started to contribute to kde. I need some > advise for how to start the bug fixing.For that I just started learning Qt > basics and developing some small applications. > > Please give me some suggestions and guilde

Re: Google Summer of Code 2015

2015-03-05 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Arun Jayan wrote: > Hello friends , > >I am Arun Jayan from College of engineering poojar , kerala , India . > I am a 3rd year Computer Science and engineering student . I am interested > in working for foss . > So I started with microhope . > > Microhope is

Re: GSoC & Kopete

2015-02-21 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Pali Rohár wrote: > Hello, > > I'm current maintainer of Kopete -- KDE IM client, part of > kdenetwork. I do not know if it is not too late, but I'm willing > to help with some Kopete project on upcoming GSoC. I can add some > project ideas to KDE GSoC page, but l

GSoC Ideas page

2015-02-15 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, it's time for KDE to apply for GSoC in a few days. Please check https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2015/Ideas and ensure that your section is correct. I should have removed the old ideas when I copy/pasted last year's page, but didn't do that. So please remove anything you don't want there;

Re: New to Open Source development-Suyash

2015-02-09 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Suyash Kumar wrote: > Hello there! > > I am Suyash, and I am new to the Open Source Community. I know C++,Java, > python, git, linux. > > I would like to contribute to some KDE projects, I was especially interested > in K-stars, Marble and the Marble Game project.

Re: PyKDE projects

2015-01-11 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:23 AM, utpal kumar Jha wrote: > Hello all I am utpal Gsoc enthusiast . i have experience with both python > and c++ worked on PyQt framework but i don't see PyKDE project ideas in here > . would pyKDE be participating in this year's summer of code ? Hi Utpal, thanks for

Re: VALS Semester of Code, second round

2015-01-11 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
So sorry for sending this out without a subject originally. Time is even shorter now.. On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > Are we interested in making an application? Late days, but perhaps > some teams have something suitable? > > VALS Semester of Code

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2015-01-09 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
d project ideas have > been moved to the second round. Probably, this VSoC needs a bit more > publicity? > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Valorie Zimmerman > wrote: >> >> Are we interested in making an application? Late days, but perhaps >> some teams have som

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