On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Harsh Thakkar <hars...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear KDE & KDE-SOC Community, > > It is a pleasure to learn that KDE-SOK 2014 has been announced a few days > ago with a vast variety of projects. I am a keen user of open-source > software, but haven't been able to contribute since a long time. I would > like to take the KDE-SOK opportunity to repay the wonderful community. > > I am interested in contributing to the KDE-EDU project "Pairs". I find it > really interesting and crucial as children are the most valuable resources > to the society. Pairs focuses on brain stimulating games and is useful not > only to children but to almost any age group of people. I use it almost > daily for my daily brain exercise. > > I would like to propose a project as a mentor to the pairs project. I have > a few things in mind: > > 1. Porting the Pairs project to QT 5. [It has been ported to QT 4x version > link- http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=pairs.git] > - Transiting to Qt 5 from Qt 4.x is not expected to be significant, but > the “modularization” of the Qt code base requires some amount of changes > to project configuration, such as use of “headers”, and configuration of > project build settings (such as changes to the *.pro files). > > -This would require knowledge of qml, qt5 and basic C++. > > 2. In the latest version pushed by Aleix Pol and Marco Calignano, there > are a few TODO's they proposed, i would like to include them into this idea > and solve the remainders. These include: > a) Adding scroll bar in-case of more than one player is involved to > eliminate the over-lapping on the display > b) Getting rid of window border > c) In the game Logic and SoundLogic there is a need to highlight the first > selected card of each turn > > Looking forward to hear from you people! > Some handy resources - > http://qt-project.org/wiki/Transition_from_Qt_4.x_to_Qt5 and > > Affectionate regards, > Harsh Vrajesh Thakkar > Research Scholar |BioNLP, Information Retrieval > Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information Communication Technology, > Gandhinagar > Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/harsh9t> |LinkedIn > <http://in.linkedin.com/in/thakkarharsh> |Twitter > <https://twitter.com/Harsh9t> |Web <http://harshthakkar.in/> > > "People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, > unless you let them." > > > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to > unsubscribe << > > Hi Harsh, I didn't notice you wanted to mentor. I don't think it's acceptable to have somebody who hasn't contributed beforehand as a mentor. I think it breaks the mentorship promise that the mentor will be an experienced KDE developer. On the other hand, if are interested, you can contribute to Pairs too. Aleix
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