On 17/03/14 10:26, Ryan Ollos wrote:
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?
I missed the first question in my earlier reply. There are two individuals
that have started on proposals for COMDEV-111 and COMDEV-112, which is not
to say that you can't also work the projects.
When considering the projects, you can ask yourself whether you want to
work on something strongly focused on the server-side, client-side or a
nice balance of each. It shouldn't be a problem that you haven't worked
with Bootstrap or jQuery. If your project will utilize a lot of JavaScript
though, you'll want to do some reading / tutorials to get familiar with
jQuery. It is an amazing and powerful library!
We also have some projects from last summer that weren't completed. The
"Live Syntax Highlighting" project always looked interesting to me:
https://issues.apache.org/bloodhound/query?status=!closed&keywords=~gsoc
"Live Syntax Highlighting" would be weighted to the client-side I think.
If you wanted to work on one of those, we (the mentors) might have to put
an issue in COMDEV, but I think there is still time to do that.
https://issues.apache.org/bloodhound/ticket/481 may well make a good
base for a project as Ryan says. I don't think a new ticket in COMDEV is
required for this. After all, candidates are free to specify their own
projects for us to consider.
Cheers,
Gary
