Volunteers needed to contribute code to KDE-KOffice

[ubuntufreak]

Hi everyone,

Please find the below extract taken from the blog to know more about
the volunteer or internship opportunity.

Boudewijn Rempt, CTO of KO GmbH, a company that works on open source
projects around KOffice, OpenDocument and Qt is looking for Indian
university contacts for establishing project channels to increase
volunteer contribution to Free/Libre software.

In Europe, he has been a mentor of a student who did his MA Thesis on
writing brush engines and algorithms for Krita and had visited India
in May to give a training to some university students who were going
to do an internship with Nokia, working on KOffice. A large part of
that training was about getting involved with a free software project
and he would like the opportunity to do the same for other groups of
students and would love to work together with people to set up similar
projects at Indian colleges, universities and with companies because
when students do their internship or thesis in cooperation with a free
software project, they will learn a lot that is really valuable:
working together with teams, producing software that has end users,
working with large, real-life code bases and the projects might gain
long term contributors.

According to Boudewijn, KOffice is C++ based --only some applications
can be scripted in Python and they use some Python scripts for things
like quality control, but the apps and libraries are C++. You can read
the detailed build instructions and if it interests you then directly
contact Boudewijn Rempt at bo...@valdyas.org (private) OR
bo...@kogmbh.com (company address).

PS: Feel free to circulate this widely to all Indian universities and
colleges as FLOSS is meant for everyone/anyone interested in learning
something new.