I’m about to submit my proposal. I’m sorry it’s very short notice, I’ve had a lot of other commitments. Just wanted to let you know that I don’t expect you to give me feedback before the deadline. Hope you like what I’ve worked on though!
Cheers, Jennifer On 18 Mar 2014, at 15:24, Joachim Dreimann <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18 March 2014 13:37, Jennifer Parak <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks a lot for your reply! I've just looking into the Live syntax high >> lightening issue and it looks really exciting. >> Is it possible for me to work on it? How much has been done? Or would you >> want me to start from the scratch? >> Please let me know so I can look into it and work on my proposal. >> >> Cheers, >> Jennifer >> > > Not a lot of code has been committed by the last student that attempted > this, you can get an overview of the branch here: > https://github.com/apache/bloodhound/commits/livesyntaxhighlighting > > Only the changes on Sep 18, 2013 and Oct 04, 2013 are relevant, with most > changes happening in this one commit: > https://github.com/apache/bloodhound/commit/fbbff24ecebfb206e7d31f82c9acc21efee98fae > > It's up to you if you want to base your work on this or start from scratch, > either way a lot of work is probably left to be done :-) > > - Joe > >> >> >> On 17 Mar 2014, at 11:26, Ryan Ollos <[email protected]> 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. >> >> > > > -- > Joachim Dreimann | *User Experience Manager* > > WANdisco // *Non-Stop Data* > > e. [email protected] > twitter @jdreimann <https://twitter.com/jdreimann>
