On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Jennifer Parak <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hey Everyone! > > My name is Jennifer Parak (please feel free to call me Jen), I'm a 3rd > Year Student at University of Sheffield studying Information Management & > Technology. > Thanks a lot for organising the Meetup today! It was really good seeing > the Mentors and getting an overview of the project. > > I'm new to GSOC, so excuse me if I'm a bit slow and hesitant at the start, > but I'm really excited to get started with the projects. > I'm very interested in front-end projects such as COMDEV-111 and > especially COMDEV-112, because it leaves room for creativity and I would > love building something that I contribute by exchanging ideas. > I also want to learn a lot during my internship, which is why I would like > to choose a project that requires several different skills. I'm confident > with Python, HTML, CSS and Javascript, so I should be well prepared and set > up for the projects. Is it a problem if I've never worked with Bootstrap or > jQuery? I'm happy to look into new frameworks and I'm sure I can pick them > up really quickly. > Any comments that might help me decide one of those projects? > > First things first: 1. Is there anyone who could help me installing > Bloodhound on a Mac? I have python, pip and virtalenv installed, however, > virtualenv seems to be making trouble. > Might be easier/quicker to explain this on IRC chat, I would really, > really appreciate it! I'm really sorry that I can't seem to install it, I > hope that's doesn't give me a bad start. > > 2. Are we going to find out who the Mentor of each project is? (just > curious) > I think we could say that it will be loosely connected to the person that opened the issue in COMDEV, but since we currently have 3 mentors, we'll probably try to distribute the load as evenly as possible after seeing who gets accepted. We tend to share the responsibilities of supporting the projects anyway, so I wouldn't be overly concerned about who the mentor is. Hopefully you'll be getting feedback and input from all of the mentors as well as members of the community.
