Google Summer of Code 2013 has recently
been announced and as a potential student candidate, you are
wondering what to do in order to get the chance to work with the KDE
community. Here are a few tips:
- get familiar with KDE: install one
the latest Linux distribution with the latest KDE Software
Compilation, use as much KDE workspaces and applications as you can
- once you get an area you are the most
interested in, look in bugs.kde.org to find easy bugs to fix for it
and join the mailing list for this project. Get the source code and study it then submit your first patch!
You will learn developing with Qt and
KDE libraries and using git, this will ease your GSoC start workload and
also will give you a more precise idea on your skills and
interests.
It is good that you already interacted
with KDE development before applying to GSoC so the above are steps
you will really want to start right now. A great book to get started with
KDE development can be found here: http://flossmanuals.net/kde-guide/
This page
http://community.kde.org/Getinvolved/development will also help you.
To ease your start as a KDE would-be
developer, we have brand new videos on how to build KDE from git:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6bWR698TEbnEXRisrgycJ091sT_GUk50
And don't forget to
read Planet KDE to get more familiar with KDE developers and projects!
Once you have done
the above, you'll be able to find a project you can work on, see http://community.kde.org/GSoC and you can subscribe to the KDE SoC mailing list: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-soc
3 comments:
Great post, thank you :-)
Could you please also point them to the KDE guide at http://flossmanuals.net/kde-guide/, it was written specifically with new contributors in mind.
I like the post. Points mentioned in the post are to the point :) Once again, nice one.
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