KDE : Experience freedom
KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows, and OS X systems.
It is known for its Plasma Desktop, a desktop environment which is provided as the default work environment on many Linux distributions, such as openSUSE, Mageia and Kubuntu.
KDE project serves as an umbrella project for many standalone applications and smaller projects that are based on KDE technology. Recently KDE participated in Google Code In to provide young contributors an opportunity to get involved with KDE and inspire them to get involved with open source.
During December, KDE managed to create over 100 tasks, with over 29 mentors.
It gradually increased to over 277 tasks by the next month. It was great to see such an active contribution by the students to KDE and the mentors made sure the students are well equipped with the tasks. Marble managed to create maximum tasks among the KDE projects with over 50 out of 277 tasks.
It gradually increased to over 277 tasks by the next month. It was great to see such an active contribution by the students to KDE and the mentors made sure the students are well equipped with the tasks. Marble managed to create maximum tasks among the KDE projects with over 50 out of 277 tasks.
Also, for the young contributors, KDE provided over 65 beginner tasks which helped them to get involved with open source.
Later, the students were expected to go ahead with non-beginner tasks to help them foster their skills. KDE provided tasks of varied types ranging from code, documentation/training, design, quality assurance and outreach/research.
Later, the students were expected to go ahead with non-beginner tasks to help them foster their skills. KDE provided tasks of varied types ranging from code, documentation/training, design, quality assurance and outreach/research.
Some twitter follow ups :
So happy that newcomers finished 240 tasks for @kdecommunity during Google Code-in 2014 http://t.co/no6GdtJwyB
— Lydia Pintscher (@nightrose) January 20, 2015
first week of Google code in, 68/125 tasks completed, of them 47% -beginner tasks @planetkde @valoriez @nightrose :) http://t.co/Ru8stDLYxt
— Heena (@1011011011011) December 9, 2014
Overall, KDE produced 190 code related tasks, 26 documentation/training related tasks, 41 quality assurance tasks.
It was overwhelming to see a synchronous and healthy student mentor relationship while Google Code In.
The students performed well with the highest score by Mikhail Ivchenko and second highest by Ilya Kowalewski .
We thanks Google Code In to help KDE to encourage young students to get involved with KDE.
We thanks Google Code In to help KDE to encourage young students to get involved with KDE.
-Heena Mahour
co-administrator of GCI 2014 under KDE
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