GSoC/2011/StatusReports

Status Report: GSoc and SoK 2011

GSoC

Name

Project: (Link to your project home page)

Link (Blog/Mailing List Archive): (Add more than one link if you feel)

Daniel E. Moctezuma

Project: Improving the user experience in Kiten

Short description: This project aims for the following improvements

• Improve (or write a new) deinflection system.
• Add more search filtering options (word type filters, match ending, etc.)
• 'Update' feature for EDICT and KANJIDIC dictionaries.
• Write a Kanji Browser module to help users learn kanji.
• Bug fixes and code polishing.

Status: All proposal features completed. Working on minor bug fixes and documentation at the moment.

Link (Project): https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdeedu/kiten

Link to Git repository (on gsoc2011 branch)

Some screenshots:

• Kanji Browser List
• Kanji Browser Information
• New deinflection system

Awesomeness of GSoC: All the work done by students in GSoC/SoK will have impact in Free Software and the world.

What I learned: Time organization is always important.

IRC Nick: dmoctezuma

IRC Channel: #kde-edu on Freenode

Srikanth Tiyyagura

Project: Tagging and Resource Management in Krita

Description: Abstract of my project

Status: Completed : Resource Management and Tagging ; To Do : Sketch Book Tagging

Links for Blog Posts:

• My First week work.
• GHNS for preset resource in Krita.
• Enhancements in Krita GHNS utility.
• Resource Management for Presets in Krita.
• Finishing touches to Resource Management in Krita.
• Tagging in Krita.
• Tagging is almost done . . !
• Posted the review on tagging in Krita.
• Implementing Nepomuk as another backend for tagging..
• Two Backends for tagging in Krita
• Why Nepomuk in Krita . . .

IRC Nick: sri13

IRC Channels: #krita, #calligra

Screenshot: picture contains both tagging and resource management

Awesome about GSOC: Working hard to get into gsoc and the guidance showed by KDE people (It's really great. . !)

Learned: Working out until get satisfied with the code and its functionality . . . ;)

Vishesh Yadav

Project: Mercurial Plugin for Dolphin

Links (Project):

http://vishesh-yadav.com/blog/

http://vishesh-yadav.com/blog/2011/06/10/mercurial-integration-in-dolphin/

http://vishesh-yadav.com/blog/2011/07/03/mercurial-plugin-for-dolphin-work-progress-part-1-2/

IRC: #[email protected]

Paul Mendez

Project: Improving management of slides in Calligra Stage

Link (Project): http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/paulms/16001

Link (Blog/Mailing List Archive): http://paulm-byte.blogspot.com/

http://paulm-byte.blogspot.com/2011/05/gsoc-2011-improve-of-slides-management.html

http://paulm-byte.blogspot.com/2011/06/gsoc-2011-calligra-stage-project-update.html

http://paulm-byte.blogspot.com/2011/07/gsoc-stage-slides-management-update-3.html

IRC: #calligra, #stage (paul_m)

Tirtha Chatterjee

Project: Implementation of tab grouping in Rekonq

Links:

http://thebengaliheart.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/gsoc-tab-grouping-in-rekonq/

http://thebengaliheart.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/live-and-dead-sessions-2/

http://thebengaliheart.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/thoughts-about-tab-grouping-in-rekonq/

Radek Wicik

Project: Map Browser element for Kexi forms, reports and Calligra documents

Link (Project): http://community.kde.org/Kexi/Junior_Jobs/Map_Browser_Form_Widget

Link (Blog): http://rockfordsone.blogspot.com

Link (Forum Archive): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/season-of-kexi

Cyril Oblikov

Project: Improvements in KIO File Transfer

Link (Project): http://goo.gl/JvWHr

Link (Blog): http://munknex.net

Posts: Errors Handling During File Transfer

Arthur Arlt

Project: Modularization of KWin Workspace

Link (Blog): http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/05/guest-post-a-hello-from-kwin-gsoc/

Rafał Kułaga

Project: Printing support for KStars

Link (Project): http://goo.gl/Q3aCM

Link (Blog): http://rkulaga.wordpress.com/

IRC nick: rkulaga

GTalk nick: rl.kulaga

Links:

http://rkulaga.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/my-gsoc-2011-project-introduction-printing-support-for-kstars/

http://rkulaga.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/my-gsoc-project-printing-support-for-kstars-let-the-coding-begin/

http://rkulaga.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/printing-support-for-kstars-request-for-comments/

http://rkulaga.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/progress-report-and-information-about-mid-term-deliverables/

http://rkulaga.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/legends-annotations-done-fov-export-to-follow/

http://rkulaga.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/fov-export-finder-chart-and-legends-done/

Francesco Nwokeka

Project: Integration of kde-telepathy with the plasma workspace

Blog: http://nwoki.wordpress.com/

Irc: #[email protected] (nwoki)

Karan Pratap Singh

Project: KDE Plasma Educational Desktop

Blog: http://www.kpsfoo.in/blog

Irc: #[email protected] (kps_foo)

Viranch Mehta

Project: Porting KDE Plasmoids to QML

Links (blog):

http://viranchmehta.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/ugly-bad-and-good/

http://viranchmehta.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/gsoc-update-battery-monitor-applet/

http://viranchmehta.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/gsoc-update-2-locklogout-applet/

http://viranchmehta.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/gsoc-update-3-device-notifier-applet/

Link (mailing list): http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/

IRC nick: viranch

Pranav Ravichandran

Project: Integrating the SMARTS Game AI System into Gluon

Link (blog): http://pranavrc.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/plunging-into-gluon-and-kde-with-gsoc/

IRC nick: Pranav_rcmas

Sinny Kumari

Project: Making Plasma Media Center ready for first release

Link (Project): https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/multimedia/plasma-mediacenter/repository

Link (Blog):

  http://www.sinny.in/?q=node/13
  http://www.sinny.in/?q=node/14

IRC : #plasma-mediacenter (ksinny)

Sudhendu Kumar

Project: HTML replies in KMail

Link (Project): - http://sudhendu.in/node/12

http://sudhendu.in/node/11

Link (Blog): - http://www.sudhendu.in

IRC: #kontact (ROYal007)

Daniel Marth

Project: Marble goes Mobile, Take 2

Link (Project): http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/danielmarth/1

Link (Wiki): http://www.proggen.org/doku.php?id=user:dani93:gsoc:2011

IRC nick: marthd

Aakriti Gupta

Project: Single-canvas presentation mode in Calligra Stage

Project Proposal: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/aakriti_gupta/1

Blog: http://aakritigupta.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/gsoc-project-single-canvas-presentation-mode-in-calligra-stage/

IRC: #Calligra, #stage (aakriti)

Teo Mrnjavac

Project: Amarok Mobile Foundations

Blog posts: (1) Beginning Amarok Mobile

IRC: Teo` in #amarok on Freenode

José Millán Soto

Project: KMail, Kopete and Dolphin accessibility

Link (Blog): http://gpul.org/?q=en/blog/219

IRC nick: fid_jose

Rohan Garg

Project syncEvolution and KDE integration

Link (Blog): http://kshadeslayer.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/hello-planets/

IRC nick: shadeslayer

Alessandro Buggin

Project Voxforge integration with Simon

Link (Blog): http://archandkde.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/gsoc-hello-planet/

Project details: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/ahel/17001

IRC nick: ahel in #kde-soc #kde-accessibility #kde-devel #kde-italia

Mailing List: https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=speech2text-development

Tudorica Constantin-Alexandru

Project: Kde on Windows installer using Attica

IRC nick: tudalex in #kde-windows

Blog: http://gsoc.tudalex.com/

Shantanu Tushar

Project: Digital Game Distribution Support and Enhancements for Gluon

Project Website: http://gluon.gamingfreedom.org/

Blog: http://www.shantanutushar.com/category/tags/gluon

IRC Nick: Shaan7

Adam Nash

Project: Context Dependent Speech Recognition for simon

Mailing List Archive: speech2text-development

Svyatoslav Kuzmich

Project: Further improve the Vi Input Mode in Kate

Blog:

(1) http://kate-editor.org/2011/07/26/vimode-gsoc2011/

Git: git://anongit.kde.org/clones/kate/kuzmich/kuzmich_gsoc_2011.git

Siddharth Sharma

Project: PSD File import/export Support

Blog: http://www.siddharthkde.wordpress.com

IRC Nick: siddvicious

Jonathan Perichon

Project: Usability survey framework

Status:

Core classes hierarchy: done

Grammar for parsing csv files: done

Plasmoid data engine: done

Plasmoid application: not completed

Currently (last week of GSoC): code clean-up, documentation, recipe for adding new question types

After: finish the plasmoid application, implement survey of the week pushed via GHNS, ...

Blog:

(1) http://jonathan-perichon.com/gsoc-usability-survey-framework/

(2) http://jonathan-perichon.com/gsoc-usability-study-status-update/

Git: git://anongit.kde.org/scratch/perichon/kusabilitysurvey.git

IRC: #[email protected] (jperichon)

Martin Klapetek

Project: PIMO:Person integration into Akonadi-Nepomuk

Status: Working on Nepomuk service and Akonadi-Nepomuk-Contacts-Feeder

Blog: http://martys.typepad.com/blog/2011/06/gsoc-pim-nepomuk-and-telepathy.html

IRC: mck182 @ #kde-telepathy & #kontact & #nepomuk-kde

Kunal Ghosh

Project: Desktop Synchronization For OwnCloud

Status Update: http://owncloud.org/index.php/Syncclient

IRC: gancient @ #ownclouod

Dmitry Kazakov

Project: Multithreaded Tool Actions System for Krita

Project Page: page

Status: Finished the design of all the four subsystems

Design documents: Interactional Tools, Strokes Framework, NonTool Actions Implementation, Recording System

IRC: dmitryK

Adrian Lungu

Project: Kate Code Folding

Project Proposal: Kate Code Folding - Proposal

Status: The project is completed. I want to use this last week to write a couple of more tests and for some fine tunning

Blog pages:

Week 1: Introduction

Week 2: Architectural Design

Week 3: Folding Algorithm

Week 4: Integrating the Folding Algorithm

Week 5: New Code Folding is taking shape

Final steps: Try Kate's new Code Folding

Final steps: Some technical details about Kate's Code Folding

Final steps: The Bug-less version of Code Folding

Michael Gapczynski

Project: ownCloud Sharing

Project Proposal: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/mtgap/3001

Link (Blog): http://blog.gapinthecloud.com

Jon Ander Peñalba

Project: KDE Demo

Links:

• Hello (KDE) World!
• Qt Demo with KDE examples

Milian Wolff

Project: C++2011 Support in KDevelop

Status: reading & implementing new spec

IRC nick: milian

Blog: http://milianw.de/blog

Links for Blog Posts:

• http://milianw.de/blog/gsoc-c2011-support-in-kdevelop-part-1

Phaneendra Hegde

Project: Fancy Bookmarking for Konqueror and Rekonq using Nepomuk

Links (Proposal):

  http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/phaneendranh/13001 

Links (Blog):

  http://pnhblog.tumblr.com/
  http://community.kde.org/Nepomuk/GSoC/2011/Journals/pnh

IRC nick:

  pnh (#nepomuk-kde)

Smit Shah

Project: Metadata Writeback using Nepomuk

Links (Proposal):

  http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/smitshah/1 

Links (Blog):

  http://who828.wordpress.com/
  http://community.kde.org/Nepomuk/GSoC/2011/Journals/SmitShah

IRC nick:

  Who

Zhang Jie

Project: Clone Tool for Image Editor in Digikam

Link (Proposal):

  http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/hybys/1001 

IRC nick::

  zhjie

Yuvraj Tomar

Project: KDECore:Support for astronomical calendar systems

Link (Project): http://community.kde.org/KDE_Core/Astronomical_Calendars

Link (Blog): http://yuvrajtomar.blogspot.com

IRC Nick: yuvrajtomar

Harald Sitter

Project: QML Video Support for Phonon

Link (Project): http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/apachelogger/1

Links (Blog):

• Phonon and QML
• Details on Phonon in QML
• Phonon QML Iteration2 & Meego

IRC Nick: apachelogger

Lucas Lira Gomes

Project: Integrate gpodder.net web service with Amarok podcasting functionalities

Link (Project): http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/llg/7001

Link (Blog): http://pinguimengenheiro.blogspot.com

IRC Nick: MaskMaster

Konstantin Oblaukhov

Project: *.osm file render for Marble

Project Details: http://marble.kosyak.info/

IRC nick: ObKo (#marble)

SoK

Aaditya Chauhan

Project: Start-Up Speed Optimisation

Status: Still looking at Options and working out Possibilties.

Link (blog): http://aadityachauhan1.blogspot.com/2011/05/season-of-kde.html

IRC nick: Aaditya_Chauhan

Links:

http://aadityachauhan1.blogspot.com/2011/06/understanding-kde-launch-sequence.html

http://aadityachauhan1.blogspot.com/2011/06/understanding-systemd-part-i.html

http://aadityachauhan1.blogspot.com/2011/06/understanding-systemd-part-ii.html

http://aadityachauhan1.blogspot.com/2011/07/kde-timing-and-instrumentation.html

http://aadityachauhan1.blogspot.com/2011/07/startup-optimisation-with-bootchart.html

Aamir Khan

Project: Server-Server Synchronization in Owncloud

Link: http://www.owncloud.org

IRC Nick: syst3mw0rm

Puneet Goyal

Project: Making the Payment Detection Use Case in Alkimia

Status: Creating the test files

Link: http://community.kde.org/Alkimia/Usecases/payment

Link(Blog): http://summer-opensource.blogspot.com

IRC NICK: puneetgoyal

Amey Dharwadker

Project: Face Recognition in digiKam using embedded Hidden Markov Model (HMM)

Status: Written code for training embedded HMM in libface branch

Link: http://www.digikam.org/ , http://libface.sourceforge.net/

Afief Halumi

Project: Refactor KLettres and implement QML

Link: http://community.kde.org/KDEEdu/KLettres/SoC2011

Helder Oliveira

Project: Calligra Flow - Create an easy way to ordinary users make their own stencils.

Status: Creating ideas and verifying the possibilities.

Link (project): http://www.calligra-suite.org/flow/

Link (blog): http://helderc.wordpress.com/

IRC nick: Hutley

Shreya Pandit

Project: Web Browser element for Kexi forms, reports and Calligra documents

Link (Project): http://community.kde.org/Kexi/Junior_Jobs/Web_Browser_Form_Widget

Link (Blog): http://shreyapandit.blogspot.com/

Link (Blog): http://blogs.kde.org/node/4448

Link (Forum Archive): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/season-of-kexi

Felix Rohrbach

Project: Gluon: Statistics and Achievements

IRC nick: fxrh

Link (announcement): http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/gluon/2011-May/000006.html

Link (blog): http://fxrh.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/achievements-for-gluon/

Rajat Khanduja

Project: Kate: Improving the Modeline feature by providing a 'Modeline Editor'

Links (blog): (Newer ones appear at the top)
http://yetanothercomputermaniac.blogspot.com/2011/07/sed-reducing-effort-since-74.html
http://yetanothercomputermaniac.blogspot.com/2011/07/kates-variable-editor.html
http://yetanothercomputermaniac.blogspot.com/2011/06/software-projects-and-grep.html
http://yetanothercomputermaniac.blogspot.com/2011/06/season-of-kde-sok.html

Rohan Prabhu (irc: thirtySeven)

Project: Playlist sharing in Amarok // EtherMedia

Link: http://rohanprabhu.com/?p=192

Alessandro Cosentino

Project: Integrating Akregator, Akonadi and Owncloud.

Link: http://algorithmsforthekitchen.com/wiki/doku.php

IRC nick: zimba12 on Freenode

Tushar Mehta

Project: Speed limit on KIO protocols

Link (Project): http://summertimekde.blogspot.com/2011/06/improvements-in-kio-file-transfer.html

Link (Blog): http://summertimekde.blogspot.com/2011/06/about-me.html

IRC nick: tushar_mehta

Rovin Bhandari

Project: Improving data analyzers in Strigi.

Link (Project Wiki): http://community.kde.org/SoK/2011/Strigi

Link (Blog): (none so far, will create one soon)

IRC nick: rovinbhandari / rovinbhandari1

Sourava Prasad Mishra

Project: Java Support in KDevelop!

Link (Project Wiki): http://kdevelop.org/

Link (Blog): Soon! As the project rolls down.

IRC nick: sourav7mishra

Brijesh Patel

Project: Providing References tool in Calligra Words

Link (Project Wiki):

      http://community.kde.org/SoK/2011/Calligra/Words/ReferencesTool#Introduction
      http://community.kde.org/SoK/2011/Calligra/Words/ReferencesTool#15.2F08.2F2011
      http://community.kde.org/SoK/2011/Calligra/Words/ReferencesTool#Screenshots

Link (Blog): http://kodewords.wordpress.com

IRC nick: erione

Smit Patel

Project: Providing References tool in Calligra Words

Link (Project Wiki):

      http://community.kde.org/SoK/2011/Calligra/Words/ReferencesTool#Introduction
      http://community.kde.org/SoK/2011/Calligra/Words/ReferencesTool#15.2F08.2F2011
      http://community.kde.org/SoK/2011/Calligra/Words/ReferencesTool#Screenshots

Link (Blog): http://kodetortuga.wordpress.com

IRC nick: smitpatel24

Naman Muley

Project: Developing a Map Based Contact List UI for Telepathy

Status: Working Around Marble , Designing the app

Link (Project Wiki): Coming up soon..

IRC nick: Dunce

Samir Hasan

Project: Mobile Billing System

Status: Starting to write code with the first version of developer documentation published

Link (Project Wiki): http://community.kde.org/Alkimia/Usecases/Billing

Link (Project Blog): http://www.incurlybraces.com/category/sok-mobile-billing-application

Project Progress:

1. http://www.incurlybraces.com/sok-mobile-billing-application-developer-documentation-ready.html

2. http://www.incurlybraces.com/sok-mobile-billing-application-some-mock-ui.html

IRC nick: sam1487

Seshagiri Prabhu

Project: Collage Creator tool (KIPI Plugin)

Link(Blog): http://seshagiriprabhu.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/sok-project-collage-creator-tool-kipi-plugin/

Status: Going through the source code.

IRC nick: seshagiri

Rushabh Gosar

Project: Working on Knights game

Link (Project Wiki): http://rushabhsportal.blogspot.com (not yet updated).

Status: Gone through the source code, waiting for Exams to end.

IRC nick: rushabhtechie55

Bhawna

Project: Fontwork Shape/Tool

Link(Project):http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas#Project:_Fontwork_Shape.2FTool

Link(Blog): -

Status: Looking at codes seeing how fontwork is implemented.

IRC Nick: bhawna

Antonio J. Gallo

Project: Integrate and distribute the GPL funambol server with ownCloud and its internal storage

Link(Project):http://www.owncloud.org

Status: Early integration of SyncML server as an ownCloud app: Done (at alpha status) Web interface to view an edit vcf (contact) files synced with the SyncML server integrated: Done Currently improving the SyncML server and working with Kunal into the client with the aim to sync any kind of file (like dropbox and so)

IRC Nick: antoniojgallo

Łukasz Spas

Project: http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas#Project:_Photo_Frame_Layouts

Link (Blog): http://coder89.wordpress.com/ (Not updated yet)

Link (github): http://github.com/coder89/PhotoFramesEditor - Daily updated project source.

Status: [Implemented]: main frame of app, canvas, photo and text items, stack of layers, undo commands, snap to grid functionality, exporting canvas to standard images formats, my own image format based on SVG, photo effects, and much much more... :P [In progress]: rotating and scaling tools, borders editor, dialog for choosing paper (canvas) sizes, canvas background editor.

Samikshan Bairagya

Project: Making KStars more useful for the scientifically inclined user.

Links (Blog):

http://samxan.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/halleys-comet-is-no-longer-blinding/

http://samxan.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/sok-my-tryst-with-kstars/

IRC Nick: samxan

Status: Fixed the magnitudes for comets. Implementing update notification system for recent supernovae.

Dhruv Patel

Project: Developing a Presentation-view tool for digikam with much more functionality than showing fullscreen image like see and edit image metadata.

Links (Blog):

http://community.kde.org/SoK/2011/digikam/presentation_view

http://www.digikam.org/

Supreet Pal Singh

Project: Developing a Presentation-view tool for digikam with much more functionality than showing fullscreen image like see and edit image metadata.

Links (Blog):

http://community.kde.org/SoK/2011/digikam/presentation_view

http://www.digikam.org/

Arvind S Raj

Project: Compatibility with Tomahawk player and also implement the features of Tomahawk in Amarok.

Status: Refactoring libtomahawk

Links (Blog): http://goo.gl/2gP8T

IRC(freenode): dnivra

Farhad Hedayati Fard

Project: Design a lock screen for Plasma Active

Status: started moving screenlock from krunner to kwin

IRC nick: farhad_hf

Blog: http://www.digidesk.ir

Debajyoti Datta

Project: Implementation of Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in CMake

Status: Started

Project Details: http://www.elpauer.org/?p=684

IRC nick: Debajyoti

Blog Address: http://dbdatta.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/about-me/