Date: Next Saturday, day 28 of January.
Time: Start at 17h.
Where: Eldenaer Straße 28A, an easy walk away from S/U-bahn station Frankfurther Alee:

And for those who prefer it a Google maps link.

Who can come: anyone who can claim a passing relationship to either KDE, openSUSE, Jos or me is more than welcome. Having read this blog counts…
What to bring: We’d appreciate it if you bring a happy disposition as well as as well as something to drink and possibly snack.
What will happen:

• First, we’ll welcome-hug you. Sorry, but there’s no way around it.
• Second, you’ll get fed. Jos will unleash his cooking mania in the kitchen. Be aware: some of you will be put to work, either cooking or cleaning. The food will be vegan. Probably curry-like but no promises.
• The plan is to then all indulge ourselves on a variety of liquids – depends on what you bring, but we’ll have some real Brazilian caipirinha too. If you don’t want to carry anything, there’s a Lidl on the other side of the street and a 24h shop downstairs ;-)

What to do to be there: comment below and/or sign up on the release party page. And put it in your agenda…

Love,
C&J

I know I’ve been away, for personal reasons, but KDE’s always there, on my machine.
It was through this community that I met great friends, here e and around the world…e the love of my life.

That’s where I learned to hug who I had never seen before, it was where I learned to speak English, was where I learned to program and that’s where I found many elegant, beautiful and sincere people.

Congratulations KDE!!  Thanks for everything!

Eu sei que ando sumida, por motivos pessoais, mas o KDE tá sempre lá, na minha máquina.
Foi através dessa comunidade que eu conheci grandes amigos, daqui e do mundo inteiro…e o amor da minha vida.

Foi onde eu aprendi a abraçar quem eu nunca tinha visto antes, foi onde eu aprendi a falar em inglês, foi onde eu aprendi a programar e foi onde eu descobri muita gente elegante, bonita e sincera.

Parabéns KDE! E obrigada por tudo!

Desktop Summit

It was awesome because:

• It was really nice to see new brazilian people (good friends!) attending and doing good work for KDE. You can see pictures here.
• Really good keynotes, like the Stuart Jarvis’s about “Why are we here? (Community Keynote)“. The graphics and the quotes in the slides were very intersting (they’ll be put on the website soon).

• I got a Tablet in the “Intel AppUp Application Lab for Meego“! Good workshop and good Tablet =)
• I attended in the BoF of KDE-Promo were Stuart Jarvis, Carl Symons, Frank Karlitschek , Thomas Thym and others discussed about the KDE birthday (october!) , about the KDE People from Latin America that should try to publish more news from these countries in the dot.kde.org (that’s important!) and that we need more documentation about how to get more companies “involved” with KDE. (you can follow the KDE Promo e-mail list to know more)
• I attended in the Kolab: The Groupware for the Free Desktop BoF, where I figured out that I need to study about KDE PIM ;-)
• I also figured out that Mai Tai is really dangerous – don’t drink more than two or you will
  try to hug and say how much you love people you never saw before!
• I met Jonathan Riddellin person, my GSoC Mentor.

The only bad thing about Desktop Summit 2011:

• The potatoes were awesome, but the most of the dishes were with pork! I don’t feel like eating pork meat for the rest for the year…

GSoC

The difficulties:

• The lack of knowledge in C++/Qt. I didn’t have a lot of experience with C++/Qt when I started which made me lose some time with stupid errors, but I believe I wasn’t the only one with this problem in GSoC.
• In the beginning I was afraid about the changes that I should do in Umbrello, how to do it properly, the best way to do it.
• I took some time to communicate properly with my mentor. I shouldn’t feel so insecure about it.
• I didn’t enjoy too much to work from home.
• Concluding: my difficulties weren’t so much about the code, but more personal difficulties. I think I wrote a ambitious project which would wait more dedication from me and I didn’t give all the needed dedication. So I didn’t conclude the project in time.

What I did to overcome it:

• Looking for help! Mainly from KDE people that I already knew in person.
• With this help, I had good ideas about how to proceed properly with the port:  keep the old canvas working with the new canvas to keep comparing the code, using preprocessor directives in the old code and developing the new Umbrello in a different folder in the same project.
• After the midterm evaluation I started to skype with my mentor.

The project for now:

• I did start to merge my code in the trunk in a new branche: http://websvn.kde.org/branches/work/umbrello-qgv-port/
• I have the EntityWidget “working” with some bugs: http://websvn.kde.org/branches/work/soc-umbrello-2011/
• And as I intended to do, I have the old canvas and new canvas working together as you can see in my previous posts about the project.
• I planned to use Squish (Squish Community Edition – froglogic Squish), an software for automated GUI tests. I had some problems with this, because I was creating long tests, so the tool couldn’t find all the objects from the script in the object library, but at the Desktop Summit I talked to and asked for help from blauzahl (thanks!) and she gave some tips, like to create short and complexy tests and this useful link: http://kb.froglogic.com/display/KB/Squish+Knowledge+Base. So now I know how to properly create tests and I can keep and execute my plan.

The future:

• These months in the GSoC gave me a good knowledge base to keep working in the Umbrello Port as my conclusion work for college.
• We had a suggestion  how to change the documentation support works in Umbrello: http://people.canonical.com/~jriddell/tmp/umbrelloDoc.pdf
• And soonish we will have the Qt 5, so we will have another port project for Umbrello (but as I was adviced, I should keep with the work to port for QT 4 because the differences to Qt 5 won’t be so big)
• And there is others suggestions about how to make the Umbrello interface better and with more usability.
  (you can follow it in the uml devel mail list)
• Migrate Umbrello to git.
• Write tests using QtestLib.

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After my last talk with my mentor, we decided that would be better to merge what I’ve doing until now in the trunk instead of to wait until the end of the project – that would be so much more work (even now, have been hard to get the new merged branch compiling and working). So for this, I made a branch from the trunk wich I am merging with the soc-umbrello-2011 branch.

The merge result (untill now) you can check here: http://websvn.kde.org/branches/work/umbrello-qgv-port/.

The idea is: if any change will be  done in the trunk, need to be done in the new branch as well.

Bye. Cya at Desktop Summit =)

Here I am, after a while discovering that to work from home is not to everyone, that below your pillow you can find a engagement ring ( = and wondering why QMenu::popup needs receives like parameter type a QPoint instead of QPointF (Is it only in my silly mind that QPointF would make more sense? Am I forgetting something about Qt? Considering that QGraphicsView works with real coordinates).

I am working now in the widgets, so for now, you can see the BoxWidget and the ListPopUpMenu in the “new canvas”, bellow to the “old canvas”.

The video is not so good…so please, check out the repository: http://websvn.kde.org/branches/work/soc-umbrello-2011/

After the evaluation time, my mentor, Jonathan Riddell, and I decided to use skype to improve our interaction :-) and my work.

And with this, my list-to-do just increases:

- make popup menu work
- implement drawing other types of widgets on class diagrams: boxwidget, class, interface..
- mouse press event
- drag and drop events

cya …

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