7 Jan
2017
7 Jan
'17
9:38 p.m.
Hi,
I am Fenil Shah, a 2nd year B.tech (ICT) student, and am interested in
learning about open-sourcing and would like to work with your company for
getting a better idea as to how I can contribute in the same. I have a
basic knowledge in the following languages:
Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, PHP, C, C++ and Python
My aim is to crack GSoC this year and would like you to guide me for the
same.
Regards,
Fenil Shah
9 Jan
9 Jan
12:05 p.m.
Hi, Fenil,
Nice to meet you!
Good thinking in starting early ;)
If you are interested in the XWiki product and our community, make sure to
check out our website www.xwiki.org (download, documentation, dev
resources, etc.) and the GSoC dedicated section http://gsoc.xwiki.org where
you can find some advices for would-be GSoC students, getting started tips
and previous year projects (section at the bottom). To make it easier, in
case you don`t find them, the GSoC sutdent guidelines are
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/Guidelines
We welcome you to get familiar with the product and, if you like it, to
start contributing. We`re here for any questions or help you might need.
Don`t hesitate if you have any questions, either here, on the mailing
lists, or on IRC (#xwiki on irc.freenode.net).
Thanks,
Eduard
On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 10:38 PM, Fenil Shah <fanilmshah(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I am Fenil Shah, a 2nd year B.tech (ICT) student, and am interested in
learning about open-sourcing and would like to work with your company for
getting a better idea as to how I can contribute in the same. I have a
basic knowledge in the following languages:
Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, PHP, C, C++ and Python
My aim is to crack GSoC this year and would like you to guide me for the
same.
Regards,
Fenil Shah
7:13 p.m.
Hi, Eduard,
Thanks for the information that you have provided. I will start going
through this. In the mean time, I would like to know if you would want me
to familiarize myself with any specific coding language or software that
would be helpful to me in order to work with your company. Also I would
like to inform you that my main area of interest is front-end Web
Development.
Regards,
Fenil Shah
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 4:35 PM, Eduard Moraru <enygma2002(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, Fenil,
Nice to meet you!
Good thinking in starting early ;)
If you are interested in the XWiki product and our community, make sure to
check out our website www.xwiki.org (download, documentation, dev
resources, etc.) and the GSoC dedicated section http://gsoc.xwiki.org
where
you can find some advices for would-be GSoC students, getting started tips
and previous year projects (section at the bottom). To make it easier, in
case you don`t find them, the GSoC sutdent guidelines are
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/Guidelines
We welcome you to get familiar with the product and, if you like it, to
start contributing. We`re here for any questions or help you might need.
Don`t hesitate if you have any questions, either here, on the mailing
lists, or on IRC (#xwiki on irc.freenode.net).
Thanks,
Eduard
On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 10:38 PM, Fenil Shah <fanilmshah(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I am Fenil Shah, a 2nd year B.tech (ICT) student, and am interested in
learning about open-sourcing and would like to work with your company for
getting a better idea as to how I can contribute in the same. I have a
basic knowledge in the following languages:
Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, PHP, C, C++ and Python
My aim is to crack GSoC this year and would like you to guide me for the
same.
Regards,
Fenil Shah
12 Jan
12 Jan
3:04 p.m.
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Fenil Shah <fanilmshah(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, Eduard,
Thanks for the information that you have provided. I will start going
through this. In the mean time, I would like to know if you would want me
to familiarize myself with any specific coding language or software
The developer guide should give you a pretty good overview of the coding
languages involved: http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/
Normally, it`s the standard web development HTML, CSS, JavaScript (+
JQuery). For the server side (i.e. in wiki pages), there is the scripting
part (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Scripting) that
would mostly be composed of Apache Velocity scripts (a nice XWiki-focused
introduction can be studied at
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/XWikiVelocityTraining)
but it can also mix a bit of Groovy (optional, usually needed for
workarounds or more complex stuff) and it might be useful (optional,
depending on the application) to know a bit of Java as well, in case you
need to build your own components.
that
would be helpful to me in order to work with your company.
Again, don`t mix a company with an Open Source project's community. Here,
we are the community of the XWiki open source project. If you are
interested in GSoC and Open Source, in general, you should clarify these
matters (e.g. by reading up on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source or
other resources on what open source is all about).
Also I would
like to inform you that my main area of interest is front-end Web
Development.
We can always use the help on front-end. The simplest advice I can give you
is to download the product, start it and do a quick bug hunting session for
small things like typos, misalignments in the UI, things that look ugly and
could use a revamp, unusual behavior in forms or UI elements, etc. (small
things). Once you find such surface bugs/problems, file up a bug report on
jira.xwiki.org, get the sources and try to fix it. If you end up with a
pull request on github containing your fix and it gets reviewed and
accepted, your chances of being accepted for GSoC (shoud XWiki get accepted
to participate in 2017 as well) increase dramatically. Not to mention that
you would be actually changing the XWiki product yourself, through your
contribution and thus, actively participating in an open source project.
Hope this helps,
Eduard
Regards,
Fenil Shah
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 4:35 PM, Eduard Moraru <enygma2002(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi, Fenil,
Nice to meet you!
Good thinking in starting early ;)
If you are interested in the XWiki product and our community, make sure
to
check out our website www.xwiki.org (download,
documentation, dev
resources, etc.) and the GSoC dedicated section http://gsoc.xwiki.org
where
you can find some advices for would-be GSoC students, getting started
tips
and previous year projects (section at the
bottom). To make it easier, in
case you don`t find them, the GSoC sutdent guidelines are
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/Guidelines
We welcome you to get familiar with the product and, if you like it, to
start contributing. We`re here for any questions or help you might need.
Don`t hesitate if you have any questions, either here, on the mailing
lists, or on IRC (#xwiki on irc.freenode.net).
Thanks,
Eduard
On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 10:38 PM, Fenil Shah <fanilmshah(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am Fenil Shah, a 2nd year B.tech (ICT) student, and am interested in
> learning about open-sourcing and would like to work with your company
for
> getting a better idea as to how I can
contribute in the same. I have a
> basic knowledge in the following languages:
>
> Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, PHP, C, C++ and Python
>
> My aim is to crack GSoC this year and would like you to guide me for
the
same.
Regards,
Fenil Shah
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