[xwiki-devs] GSoC 2016 Introduction - Blame View / Glossary Application
Hi devs, My name is Jack Zhang, and I’m enrolled to begin my undergraduate studies this September at Harvard University, where I intend to study Computer Science. I am currently taking a gap year (time off from academics between secondary school and university), and at the moment I spend my days working full-time in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and pretty much the rest of my free time doing web development at betterworldcollective.com <http://betterworldcollective.com/>. I’ve been wanting to get involved with open source for quite a while now, and I’d love to spend time this summer contributing to XWiki! I am comfortable with HTML, CSS3/Bootstrap, JavaScript/jQuery, MySQL, and PHP. I'm also acquainted with Java OOP. I am particularly excited about two projects: 1. Creating the Blame View UI 2. Glossary Application I understand that both of these projects are still somewhat open-ended, so I look forward to delving into XWiki’s use cases and exploring Apps Within Minutes to better formulate some details on the implementation and UI of either one of these projects. That being said, any pointers or suggestions are certainly welcome! See you all on JIRA :) Jack
Hi, Jack, and welcome to XWiki! It`s great to see your interest and enthusiasm! As far as I can see, both projects you are interested in are mainly UI/application projects, so the existing student guidelines [1] should be a good starting point for you. Basically you need to get acquainted with developing XWiki applications and packaging/publishing them as extensions. This means installing XWiki and using it a bit, understanding the data model, dev practices, web API (velocity, javascript, etc.)... that kind of stuff. Also, remember that you will need to have at least one good (easy/medium) Pull Request for an existing (or even new) jira issue before the student application period ends. Please feel free to ask us specific project-related of XWiki related questions that you come across while going through the online documentation, learning process and even jira issue fixing. We`re here to help along the way. Thanks, Eduard On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 4:38 AM, Jack Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi devs,
My name is Jack Zhang, and I’m enrolled to begin my undergraduate studies this September at Harvard University, where I intend to study Computer Science. I am currently taking a gap year (time off from academics between secondary school and university), and at the moment I spend my days working full-time in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and pretty much the rest of my free time doing web development at betterworldcollective.com < http://betterworldcollective.com/>.
I’ve been wanting to get involved with open source for quite a while now, and I’d love to spend time this summer contributing to XWiki! I am comfortable with HTML, CSS3/Bootstrap, JavaScript/jQuery, MySQL, and PHP. I'm also acquainted with Java OOP. I am particularly excited about two projects:
1. Creating the Blame View UI 2. Glossary Application
I understand that both of these projects are still somewhat open-ended, so I look forward to delving into XWiki’s use cases and exploring Apps Within Minutes to better formulate some details on the implementation and UI of either one of these projects. That being said, any pointers or suggestions are certainly welcome!
See you all on JIRA :)
Jack _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
Missing link to guidelines: [1] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/Guidelines On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi, Jack, and welcome to XWiki!
It`s great to see your interest and enthusiasm!
As far as I can see, both projects you are interested in are mainly UI/application projects, so the existing student guidelines [1] should be a good starting point for you. Basically you need to get acquainted with developing XWiki applications and packaging/publishing them as extensions. This means installing XWiki and using it a bit, understanding the data model, dev practices, web API (velocity, javascript, etc.)... that kind of stuff.
Also, remember that you will need to have at least one good (easy/medium) Pull Request for an existing (or even new) jira issue before the student application period ends.
Please feel free to ask us specific project-related of XWiki related questions that you come across while going through the online documentation, learning process and even jira issue fixing.
We`re here to help along the way.
Thanks, Eduard
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 4:38 AM, Jack Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi devs,
My name is Jack Zhang, and I’m enrolled to begin my undergraduate studies this September at Harvard University, where I intend to study Computer Science. I am currently taking a gap year (time off from academics between secondary school and university), and at the moment I spend my days working full-time in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and pretty much the rest of my free time doing web development at betterworldcollective.com < http://betterworldcollective.com/>.
I’ve been wanting to get involved with open source for quite a while now, and I’d love to spend time this summer contributing to XWiki! I am comfortable with HTML, CSS3/Bootstrap, JavaScript/jQuery, MySQL, and PHP. I'm also acquainted with Java OOP. I am particularly excited about two projects:
1. Creating the Blame View UI 2. Glossary Application
I understand that both of these projects are still somewhat open-ended, so I look forward to delving into XWiki’s use cases and exploring Apps Within Minutes to better formulate some details on the implementation and UI of either one of these projects. That being said, any pointers or suggestions are certainly welcome!
See you all on JIRA :)
Jack _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
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