Thursday 16 April 2015

Google Code In 2014 Wrap up : KDE

KDE : Experience freedom 


KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on LinuxFreeBSDSolarisMicrosoft 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 openSUSEMageia 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. 



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. 


Some twitter follow ups : 








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. 



-Heena Mahour 
co-administrator of GCI 2014 under KDE

1 comment:

Enter your text here .....