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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Google SoC Project Idea: Kontact Exchange
From:       Vic Fryzel <vic () shellsage ! com>
Date:       2007-03-18 1:45:50
Message-ID: 200703172145.54963.vic () shellsage ! com
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I have submitted the official proposal to Google for this Summer of Code 
project.

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Vic Fryzel (vic at shellsage dot com)
http://shellsage.com/
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On Sunday 25 February 2007 11:14:54 pm Vic Fryzel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd very much like to contribute to KDE via the Google Summer of Code.  I
> think that I have two good project ideas (the first of which is listed
> below), and have no problem putting forth the required effort to contribute
> features.  I've already contributed patches to the KDE project, am an
> active Gentoo developer, and develop a lot of open source software in my
> spare time.
>
> Please take the time to review, comment on, and build on my proposal, and I
> very much appreciate any feedback.  I'll submit it as soon as the web
> interface for proposal submissions is available.
>
> My preliminary project proposal for full Kontact Exchange integration
> follows:
>
> Who are you? What are you studying?
> My name is Vic Fryzel.  I'm pursuing a B.S. and M.S. in Software
> Engineering.
>
> What exactly do you intend to do? What will not be done?
> It is my intent to bring the MS Exchange implementation in Kontact to be as
> feature-complete as Evolution.  I intend for this to be included in KDE4. 
> It is not my intent to affect any other features of Kontact that are
> unrelated to getting Exchange integration to work, unless a new feature is
> required by Exchange integration.
>
> Why are you the right person for this task?
> I'm the right person for the task because I have substantial open source
> software development experience, a significant will to see Kontact and KDE
> become more popular and widely used, and use both KDE and Evolution on a
> daily basis, so I know what's missing from Kontact.  I'm also familiar with
> Qt and the KDE libraries.
>
> How many hours are you going to work on this a week?
> I'm prepared to work as many as 30-40 hours per week on this project.  My
> other commitments include my full-time day job as a software engineer.
>
> Are you comfortable working independently under a remote supervisor or
> mentor? I'm comfortable working independently under a supervisor or mentor
> who is at a remote location.  I'd set weekly goals for the project, and
> discuss these goals and my progess weekly (or less frequently based upon
> the requirements of the mentor) with my mentor.  I've already had
> experience with this sort of thing in becoming a Gentoo developer, where a
> large number of the developers live in Europe, and I live in the U.S.
>
> What is your native language?
> My native language is English.
>
> Where do you live?
> I live in Rochester, NY, USA;  a local mentor would be spectacular, but
> I've yet to meet a KDE developer from the area.
>
> To what extent are you familiar with the software you're proposing to work
> with?
> I'm very familiar with Kontact and KDE development in general.  I've
> read the source code (I've already looked into further implementing
> Exchange integration in Kontact just in my spare time).  I've begun to
> modify the source to perform better calendar Exchange queries, but have
> nothing patch-ready, although all of my work has been on the KDE trunk, so
> it is all going towards KDE4.  I have used C++ for many work-related
> projects, and am familiar with Qt and the KDE libraries.  I'm also very
> familiar with MS Exchange queries, and have written work-related
> applications to query Exchange servers for data such as one's mail
> folder/email information, and appointment/meeting information;  this
> included the handling of meeting requests.

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