This year I have been accepted for the Google Summer of Code, for the mentoring organization KDE. I am incredibly excited to get to know the folks from KDE (my application abstract is here) – from my experiences reading their blogs and other materials they seem to be a very close and friendly community.
My project’s primary proposal is to implement what I see as one of the biggest deficiencies in KDE – the lack of a full-featured search feature. Being my preferred desktop environment, it was slightly disappointing to see this left undone. A little searching, however, revealed that all of the backend code is actually there – it is merely some front-end work that needs to be accomplished. This got my very worked up for a bit as I realized what I could do to remedy this situation – and so I submitted my application for GSoC 2009. I think it is a great thing that I have the opportunity to contribute to my most-used and favorite open source project, and I’d like to thank all the nice folks at KDE and Google for making this happen.
Tags: KDE, open-source