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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Press release needed - first full attempt
From:       Tom Chance <tom () acrewoods ! net>
Date:       2005-06-27 15:33:12
Message-ID: 200506271633.12332.tom () acrewoods ! net
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Ahoy,

Here goes a first attempt, taking into account everything that Thiago has 
said, including that cool quote :)

Please, please, somebody give it a good headline and byline... I'm hopeless at 
good ones!

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KDE GETS 24 FUNDED PROJECTS FROM GOOGLE'S SUMMER OF CODE
Students to use $120,000 to push the free desktop environment forward

The KDE Project and Google announce the 24 KDE projects selected for the 
"Summer of Code" project. The lucky students and KDE's administrative 
organisation will receive a total of $120,000 if they can complete their 
projects in the allotted two months. 

The accepted projects span accessibility work, improvements to the office and 
personal information management suites, and even <something about the 
"Google-like tecs" - what does that mean?> Much anticipated projects include 
one addressing VoIP in KDE, and a unified document viewer to handle multiple 
formats with a plugin architecture for third party vendor extensions.

Twenty year old Piotr Szymanski, developer of this viewer, said: "I am really 
happy about developing this bounty. I worked on the KDE Polish translation 
team for a couple of years, and now, whilst studying computer science, I can 
get paid to create a much-needed free software application. I'm a bit of a 
mix of a programmer, mathematician, artist and a philosopher, a kind of 
renaissance guy."

Eva Brucherseifer of the KDE e.V. board added: "The selection process was very 
difficult due to so many good applications.  This is a great opportunity for 
students to join the KDE community and to spend the summer on something that 
will stay."

<FULL LIST OF PROJECTS>

<NOTES FOR EDITORS>
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Regards,
Tom	

On Monday 27 Jun 2005 15:55, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Tom Chance wrote:
> > I won't press this point home any more :) But I'd do:
> > 
> > 1) A summary in the body of the PR of either:
> > - Two or three specific projects (the most trendy, like VoIP maybe)
> > - A theme, like: a lot of the projects will contribute significantly
> > towards x
> > 
> > 2) The long list, with a brief explanation of each, unless the title
> > makes it very obvious. I had a look at a GNOME proposal and it took me
> > quite a while to comprehend it.
> > 
> > So it'd look like:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Ok, I agree. This is my first shot at this, so I will defer to you :)
> 
> Now the hard question: who is going to write the text?
> 
> I've also got a quote from one of the students. I talked to him on IRC and
> he agreed to that.
> 
> Please also note that the $120k figure is the max we will get. We have to
> be careful with it. It will really depend on whether the students
> accomplish their proposed goals. It does not mean Google injected that
> money into KDE all at once -- the e.V. will not even get it all: 90% will
> go to the students.
> 
> The student quote (please proofread):
> "I am really happy about developing this bounty, only recently have I
> found out how badly KDE needs some viewer with a better shell than
> kghostview/kdvi," said Piotr Szymanski, 20, whose Unified Viewer Shell
> project has been selected for the "Summer of Code" initiative. "I've been
> using Linux & KDE since 1999 and between 2001 and 2003 I worked in the
> KDE Polish translation project", he said. A Computer Science student at
> Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology of the Wroclaw University
> of Technology, he adds, "I'm a bit of a mix of a programmer,
> mathematician, artist and a philosopher, a kind of renaissance guy."

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