Hey Calvin, nice to see that you're interested in our GSOC project. I'm not sure Roman reads this list so I CC'd him.
Could you please point me to an overview of commits you made to Sway? It's not a problem that you haven't contributed to KDE yet, but we'd like to see some activity before considering your proposal. Cheers Nico On Mon, Mar 18, 2019, 00:46 CALVIN SANTIAGO LEE <calvins....@utah.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > I am a student, and I would like to look into working with KDE for the > Google Summer of Code 2019. > I am interested specifically in KDE because I have used it for several > years, and believe that my experience may be useful to the project. > > I have worked on open source projects for almost four years. A large > amount of this time was spent working on the sway[0] window manager and > Wayland compositor. > While working on sway, I developed an interest in Wayland and furthering > the Wayland ecosystem as these were a large interest of the project. > > After I stopped regularly contributing to the project, they developed > the protocol mentioned in the "Clipboard Management Wayland protocol" > GSoC project[1] which is why it interests me. > > I have not contributed code to KDE projects before, but I have been > present in the community to some extent. While I was working on a > feature for sway, I subscribed to and sent several emails to the > mailing lists (this was under my former email, cyrus...@gmail.com). > > Furthermore, I am familiar with mailing list oriented projects. I have a > commit in QEMU, which required me to learn how to communicate well and > send patches over email. > > However, I know that this may not be acceptable, as I have read that a > GSoC proposal to KDE must contain several patches to KDE projects. > > If this is not the case, please feel free to reach out to me, either > through email or IRC (I am "pounce" on freenode) about this project or > others. I would love to work with KDE for the summer, and would be > willing to answer questions or research things to make this happen. > > Finally, as a side note. I am not quite sure whom to contact for this > project, as there are two mentors listed (Roman Gilg and Nicolas Fella), > but I cannot find their emails. > Instead I am just sending an email to the lists. Please let me know if > this is inappropriate. > > Thank you, > Calvin Lee > > [0]: https://swaywm.org/ > [1]: > https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2019/Ideas#Clipboard_Management_Wayland_protocol >
