Cool KOffice Summer of Code Projects
This year KDE tried another system for alotting slots to subprojects: some subprojects were allowed to predetermine their list of preferred projects and then got a certain number of slots guaranteed. It didn't quite work out, and I'm not totally happy with the way we executed this idea. The problem is, KDE, with 47 slots and 300 applications is just too big to handle. The mentors cannot read so many proposals, and the Google web interface doesn't scale to 300 applications either.
Anyway, I'm really excited by these KOffice projects, even though there's just one Krita project:
- Kexi Web Forms by Lorenzo Villani, mentored by Jaroslaw Staniek
- Converting the old KPresenter format KPR to ODF by Carlos Manuel Licea Vázquez, mentored by Casper Boemann
- Sumi-e brush engine for Krita by Lukáš Tvrdý, mentored by Boudewijn Rempt
- Calligraphy support in Karbon by Fela Winkelmolen, mentored by Jan Hambrecht
- Notes and Presenter View Support for KPresenter by Fredy Yanardi, mentored by Thorsten Zachmann
- Improve ISO OpenDocument support by Pierre Ducroquet, mentored by Sebastian Sauer
- Improve KWord MS Word filter by Benjamin Richard Cail, mentored by Boudewijn Rempt
I think this is a nice mixture between new features and work on improving the core of KOffice
But... There's another, very cool project that will benefit KOffice a lot, though it isn't even among the KDE projects: KDE Control Panel for Color Management.