About the GSoC program

[Eduardo Robles Elvira <edulix@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone,

It's too bad I didn't get in for a second time :'(. I've been talking with 
some people (tsdgeos [see his blog on planet KDE], harri, SadEagle) and it 
seems the voting system is plain broken, also people voted based on their 
private agendas, and the mentored projects of those who couldn't attend to 
the IRC meeting got easily dismissed. (Too bad, I've been told I got the ~#50 
position and there were 47 slots). 

I really think this problem with GSoC needs to be addressed by the KDE 
community so that this doesn't happen again. I've been told that it was not 
just konqueror, basically everything not amarok/plasma/marble had a hard 
time.

I was told to remove the "improve webkit kpart" idea from the kde gsoc 2008 
wiki because it was poor form for khtml developers, and that very same ended 
being accepted. And that was probably true. Despite that, it seems Qt 
developers voted every project about QtWebkit like crazy and thus probably 
that's why we've got two WebKit related project and none for konqueror. Not 
to mention WebKit as an organizationhas itself their own student slots [1]

Also it seems Google didn't want us to divide the KDE organization in 
different projects as Gnome does (they have Gnome, but also gnumeric, pidgim, 
gimp, gstreamer, etc), which in my opinion would have been a good idea. For 
example, you could get "amarok" or "plasma" listed as separated organizations 
(even if they belong to kde in theory), as they've got quite a lot of slots 
already.

BTW as last year, I plan to continue working on Konqueror - money is just an 
incentive, I work on it just for fun! - although of course I won't spend as 
much time as I would had the project been accepted. Maybe I can at least get 
some cool t-shirts with the google swag thing..

Oh and please don't take this badly, I just want to do some constructive 
criticism so that GSoC is managed better next year. My congratulations to the 
accepted students and thanks Google for suporting the free software comunity 
=).

Regards,
        Eduardo Robles Elvira.
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[1] http://code.google.com/soc/2008/webkit/about.html
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