20 Mar
2009
20 Mar
'09
3:27 p.m.
Anthony M. Rosequist wrote:
I'm very interested in participating in the Google
Summer of Code
Project this year, and I came across XWiki while going through the
mentor list. Unfortunately, I've never used XWiki before, but I would
like to get involved.
Well, most of the students come with no prior experience, and this is
the goal of the SoC program, to get students introduced to Open Source
development and to Free Software projects. As Ludovic said, if you prove
that you can learn something really fast, you'll increase your chance of
being accepted.
I am currently finishing up a 2-semester
internship at a transportation company working almost exclusively in
J2EE / web applications. I've also done some small projects (personal
and in school) using GWT.
This is good, can you list the technologies you think you understand the
most?
There are a few proposed ideas that I'm especially
interested in
(Calendar application, Cross-Browser WYSIWYG Support, Survey
application, Import/Export, and Photo Album application). Do you
think I would be in over my head to submit my application for XWiki
GSoC? I would have to catch up with XWiki (from an end-user
standpoint as well as the code base), but I guess that's what part of
the "orientation" time is for. I just didn't know if there was
already enough interest from developers with experience in XWiki to
fill all of the spots.
Well, not all the students will be accepted, and not all our proposed
projects will get a slot, but we do a Pareto evaluation considering the
importance of the projects, the enthusiasm of the students and the
chances of success.
I'll be out of town the next couple of days, but
I'll be working on
my application proposal. The registration opens on Monday, and I'd
like to submit it shortly after -- I read that some projects will
give feedback and allow you to re-submit if you're being considered
for acceptance but need some changes.
Yes, we have a long evaluation procedure, expect to be contacted several
times before the selection process ends.
I'm sorry -- this was more of a story than a
question. I just wanted
to express my interest in GSoC and was wondering if you've already
got a large turnout of people more experienced than myself.
Well, the experience alone is not all that matters. Last year we
rejected a very experienced person because we considered that the
learning and initiation part of the program was useless for him.
Enthusiasm matters as much as experience.
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/