On the other side of cloud

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The KDE e.V. annouanced “Season of KDE” formally these days. And the site is opened for introducing and progress tracking. I’m very glad to be one of the twelve persons which were chosen to attend this job.

I got the basicly idea in my preparing period for SoC. So it’s much easier to implement it. It seems that the time(about three months) is more than enough. And my mentor - Michael Blade will be help me to complete it. All the things seems well.

But there is a little trouble. I am doing my intern job in Beijing now. The only available time is weekend and nights. What is lucky is the leader allowed me to install enviorment on my computer in company - I didn’t take a laptop. Now the debian is ready. I will compile knotes with KDE 4.0 before this weekend. Then development will begin.

I discarded the idea about write a gadget for Google Desktop which I mentioned before. Though only submit a gadget successful can get a T-shirt, I don’t have enough time to do it. I think my intern and SoK is more important.

So, please look forward to my progress.

BTW: The trouble which is bother me these days has been sloved temporary. I found a place to live in for one month. But what’s going on next month, I don’t know. The Beijing is at least 2 times prices of commodities of Wuhan. What a pity…

Tags:KDE soc

The KDE e.V. sent me a message told me that I will continue my working on KNotes in “Season of KDE 2006″. Michael Blade told they were planing such a kind of thing several weeks ago, now it’s finally announced.

This year KDE has participated in Google Summer of Code program. You were one of the candidates who had sent their proposals to Google under KDE’s mentorship.Google does only support a small selection of the project proposals mentored by KDE. Sadly, your application was not selected in this process.

However, we think that your project proposal was very interesting and had potential to become an important part of the KDE development. Thus, we offer to mentor you without the help of Google in the “Season of KDE 2006” .

We do not have the same financial means like Google does. Thus, we cannot promise you a “reward” for a successful completion of your project. We will, however, try our best to gather sponsors for this event to be able to invite you to this year’s akademy - the annual KDE conference - at Dublin. If nothing else, the Season of KDE 2006 will be a brilliant opportunity for you to become a part of the KDE community while being mentored by an experienced KDE developer that is open for all your questions.

What is out of my expect is there may be no T-shirt but a chance to take part in “aKademy 2006″! Oh, goddness me… Let me calm down for a while…

By the way, I found there are two Chinese person’s project was accepted in KDE Projects of “Google Summer of Code 2006″ : Commenting tools for KPDF by Xiaodong Chu, and QQ - A new protocol for Kopete by Hui Jin.