01 November, 2014

[Open Source] Call for participating in Season of KDE

If you are planning to start contributing to open source or a GSoC 2015 aspirant , you are at the right place ! Season of KDE is now accepting applications !

Student application deadline:5 November 2014, 12pm UTC.

To head, start from season.kde.org . 

Season of KDE is an outreach program hosted by the KDE community.
To learn how to apply, see the announcement article.
For some inspiration for your proposals, take a look at our Ideas page.

Bruno Coudoin and I would be mentoring one or two students for the project "Adding new activities to GCompris". The idea description is here.

Go through the idea page and if this sounds interesting to you, you are reqired to follow these steps:

1. Register as a student on season.kde.org

2. Read more about GCompris and get famaliar with this suite's application.

3. From Ubuntu Software Centre, you can install and play some activities.(optional)

4. Propose the project with the following format:

Name:
Country:
TimeZone: (in UTC)
About Me:

Project Title:
Detailed Project Description:
Technical Requirements:
Final expected outcome:
Timeline:
My availability and other commitments during period:
Why me ?

5. For head-start and a bonus point, try building an exercise-activity. The manual is here.

6. If you get stuck at any of the above steps, feel free to either comment here or you can mail at mailing list at gcompris-devel(at)lists(dot)sourceforge(dot)net or me in person at kesha(dot)shah1106(at)gmail(dot)com.

Wish you good luck ! :)

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