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Should I SoC this year?

carewolf's picture
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Last year I completed the Google SoC with an entry about CSS 2.1 in KHTML printing. The project was a great succes despite low visability. (You can see the result by printing documents in Konqueror and notice that headers usually follows their bodies and text is rarely broken so one line is left alone a page).

Well, because I such a lazy student, I still havent finished my master thesis, so I am technically still allowed to do a SoC-project this year. So should I SoC?

First of all it is a great opportunity to get paid for something you would do anyway, the only hard part is figuring out what you _would_ do anyway.
It is quite hard to predict what you want to do(atleast for me); for instance I had a number of small projects I listed for the spring a few months ago, but I haven't really finished any of them, but instead worked on other stuff like better XHTML support and dynamic restyling in KHTML (in 3.5.3 you will be able to do all kinds of crazy things with CSS and dynamic HTML).

But SoC is also a great opportunity to get some hard cash reason to commit yourself to a slightly larger project than you usually would. I have two potential large projects, that are too large for me to commit myself to them in my spare time, but might just be interesting to be paid to do to help KDE on:

Something KHTML ...

For instance implement XForms or merging DOM editing from WebCore, or even the wild crazy one: Porting WebCore to KDE.

avKode ...

An old abandoned project-idea reborn as a FFMPEG-backend for Phonon. This is actually something we need a lot, and would allow me to finish something I hinted at doing a couple of years ago.

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clyopa's picture

Self-organization is usually

Self-organization is usually a big problem for creative people, and programming is a creative work in some way. Though you know what projects of paramount priority, you always prefer something would you Like to work on!
Just think that with cash you get you will be able to work on the projects you like)))

cornelius schumacher's picture

Go for XForms

XForms support in Konqueror would be great. I would say, go for it Smiling

pipitas's picture

Despite terrific improvements, KHTML print is far from perfect..

...and I even saw some suggestions regarding that in the SoC/KDE ideas wiki Smiling

Cheers,
Kurt

yozko's picture

Yes please!

I've registered just to suggest u to SoC. I've been following your work in Konqueror during the last years. I truly admire u dude, KHTML work is not so noticed-by-everybody as others, but is really important and we all benefit from it. I'd vote for KHTML-related projects...

Thanks for all the time u invested in KHTML in the past

apokryphos's picture

Definitely

If you can code and can make something great for the KDE community while *being payed*, why the heck not? Smiling

vladc's picture

YES!

I'd say you should apply -- KHTML is probably the best designed HTML layout engine in existance and is an important asset to KDE and the Free Desktop in general.

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