Hello everybody,
My name is Bogdan Szanto, I come from Bras,ov, Romania, and I'm a
student at INSA Lyon, France (www.insa-lyon.fr) in the Department of
"Telecommunications, Sevices and Uses" (!in french -
telecom.insa-lyon.fr). I would like to apply as a student for GSoC.
I must admit that I discovered ArgoUML recently. I am currently learning
UML at school and we have a small project on designing a few UML
diagrams. We are using (I don't think that am I aloud to say it, so I'll
only use) "RR" and I was searching for something open source.
If one googles {uml design software open source} the first answer is
'http://argouml.tigris.org/'. And on the first page of the site: "For
Interested Google Summer of Code Students". This is how it began...
I downloaded v0.24 and ran it. Did some tests. Found it quite well
equipped. But I think that it's quite 'difficult' to work around. In my
opinion the UI is not optimized for speed. Speed of creating a diagram
that is. I'm sure I didn't discover everything, but still.
So what I had in mind was to improve the current GUI, or why not,
recreate a new one from scratch. Before actually writing an application
I thought that it would be better to run this with the developers. My
main concern was that maybe you think that GUI is less important then
stability or improving ArgoUML by adding new features (like the ones
mentioned on the Project Suggestion page). Reading the mailing list
archive I saw that you are focused on user functionality (diagrams). Do
you think that a project developing these aspects would have a greater
chance of being accepted?
Another matter that I want to discuss is the fact that I will only
finish school on the 26th of June, that is one month after the beginning
of the program. This means that I will be not working 'full-time' for
the project, especially during my final exams. I would, of course,
compensate for this by working more after this period. Would this be an
inconvenient for you?
In terms of experience, I am very proficient with Java (SE and EE).
Several JAVA school projects, major of my class in the Computer Science
domain. As I said above, I am currently learning UML at school. I would
try to fix a bug before the end of the student application deadline, or
during the interim period to prove my proficiency. Do you have one in
mind? (intermediate level, that does not require reading a big amount of
code, the purpose being testing Java and not discovering AgroUML - the
Community Bonding Period is there for this).
Thank you for your time and hope to get in touch soon.
Regards,
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Bogdan SZANTO
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