Summer Coding Idea/Proposal -- KDE Netbook Edition Spin

[Jaroslav Reznik]

Hi Ryan!
Yep, this is interesting project - I volunteered to lead it with svahl but 
he's no quite busy with new job. 

So I can mentor it, we can work together - Plasma netbook is still under heavy 
development and this project needs more upstream involvement (and I don't have 
time to help there unfortunately). It's practically unusable on small displays 
for example (tried on EEE 701).

But first what we want is really to define what we'd like to achieve - who we 
are aiming by this project. Just a netbook like UI for default KDE (no, then 
we don't need spin) or target more on small factor netbooks (with all 
constraints - disk space, displays sizes...).

Jaroslav 

On Wednesday 07 April 2010 09:00:37 am Ryan Rix wrote:
> Looks like I'm going batty... I could've sworn I sent a reply to this :)
> 
> On Mon 5 April 2010 4:32:22 pm Karsten Wade wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 07:17:15PM -0700, Ryan Rix wrote:
> > > What are your thoughts?
> > 
> > Rather than presuming ... which do you want to be, student doing the
> > work or mentor for another student (who does the work)?
> 
> I hadn't really considered that to be completely honest... I'm kind of at
> some point in between needing a mentor for this, and wanting to mentor it.
> On the one hand, I know what needs to happen, and how to do it to make
> this spin happen so wouldn't really be sure what to do with a mentore...
> But on the other hand, I don't really feel that I am qualified to be
> mentor to someone else at the current time.
> I suppose we can just leave it as "an idea I'm throwing out right now" :)
> 
> > It sounds like a well-thought out proposal, so far.  What we need is a
> > KDE SIG mentor, who works on the support from the SIG overall.  You
> > probably know more about that than I do :) and could likely fill the
> > mentor role, _if_ you weren't thinking for you to be the student.
> > 
> > If you are the student, great idea, do you happen to know who could be
> > mentor?  If so, please invite said person to this list. :)
> 
> cc'd the KDE list. Any SIG member who is interested in mentoring or being
> mentored on this project is welcome to subscribe to the summer-coding list
> and join in on the discussion.
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/summer-coding-discuss
> 
> > Regardless, you are doing the right thing, let's keep on moving, and
> > get this in to the ideas page.  I think we need to do some work to
> > make:
> > 
> > 1. "Template" (layout) for an idea page, along with a category.
> > 2. Short list of ideas with link to invididual pages.
> > 3. [[Summer Coding 2010 ideas]] is comprised of the above.
> > 
> > In fact, I just did that, also renamed [[Summer Coding ideas for
> > 2010]] to [[Category:Summer Coding 2010 ideas]]:
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_ideas
> > 
> > If you look at the page source, it works now like this:
> > 
> > [[Category:Summer Coding 2010 ideas]]
> > 
> >   transcludes in [[Summer Coding 2010 idea - RHQ - shortinfo]]
> >   
> >     	           which has a link to =>
> > 
> > [[Summer Coding 2010 idea - RHQ]]
> > 
> >   which transcludes in [[Summer Coding 2010 idea - RHQ - shortinfo]]
> >   
> >     and links to [[Category:Summer Coding 2010 ideas]]
> > 
> > I'll put this all together in a template page that is at the top of
> > [[:Category:Summer Coding 2010 ideas]]. (The ':' after '[[' is the way
> > to link to a category inline without putting the linking page _in_ the
> > category.)
> 
> Annnnnd here we are:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_ideas_-_KDE_Netbook_Spin
> 
> > - Karsten

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