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From KDE Dot News:

The Google Summer of Code 2008 has ended, and produced a number of results which have been included in an alpha release scheduled for this week. The developments include:

• A calligraphy brush in Karbon
• Kexi web forms, allowing databases defined in Kexi to be accessed through HTTP
• Improvements to KWord's OpenDocument support, including page styles, content tables, and headers and footers
• Porting of .doc filter to produce OpenDocument files rather than KWord-format files
• KPresenter can now edit notes with slides, and has a presentation view
• A new brush engine for Krita for simulating Chinese brush painting (but "which actually is more or less the basis for any bristly brush engine")

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KDE SOC projects published

Via Planet KDE, Roland Wolters has published a list of the KDE-related projects which are getting a Summer of Code slot this year:

* Media Device Support in Amarok 2 with Collections * Amarok and UPnP * Notes and Presenter View Support for KPresenter * Easy monitor hot-plug support in KDE * Integrate Decibel into the KDE 4 environment * Jingle video and voice chat in Kopete * KMail enhancements and porting to native Qt4 * Integration of the QtWebKit based KPart * Integration of WebKit SVG library with KHTML * StepGame: educational game based on Step

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The digiKam project has issued a call for students to do projects in the Google Summer of Code this year. This is a paid internship with Google mentored by people from the digiKam projects. They suggest four possible new features, all of them requested through the digiKam bug tracker, including face recognition and KROSS integration, allowing Python and Ruby scripting. More information at the call for students page; deadline is 7th April.

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