Hey everyone,
My name is João Paquim, and I'm working on my application for GSOC 2012.
I could use some tips from you guys, I'm having some difficulty choosing
something to work on, I've spent some time looking at the Ideas list, but I
can't help but feel a little lost. There are many things that would interest
me, but I would need some guidance in preparing the application. How many
people regularly have their GSOC applications rejected?
Here's what it currently looks like, I've filled in whatever I could:
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Name:
João Paquim
Email Address:
main: [email protected]
secondary: [email protected]
Freenode IRC Nick:
JPaquim
IM Service and Username:
Location (City, Country and/or Time Zone):
Lisbon, Portugal (GMT)
Proposal Title:
Motivation for Proposal / Goal:
I've wanted to get involved with an open-source project for some time, but
always found making the move a bit too mind-perplexing.
GSOC makes this a lot easier, making the whole thing more comfortable when
it comes to contacting the organizations, besides providing financial incentive.
I want to know what it feels like to be a part of a large project, and take
my software development skills to the real world.
Implementation Details:
Tentative Timeline (in weekly intervals until 2 weeks after the end of GSoC):
.
Do you have other obligations from late May to early August (school, work,
vacation, etc.)? Please note
that we expect the Summer of Code to be a full-time, 40-hr a week occupation.
It is important to be clear
and upfront about other commitments that you may have during that time.
I'll have classes until 25/05, 6 tests from 2/06 until 15/06, and recovery
exams from 23/06 until 29/06.
I'll try to avoid the recovery exams, and even with all the tests, I'll
still be pretty available during June.
I have no obligations during July or August, however.
About Me (let us know who you are!):
I'm a first year Aerospace Engineering student at IST, and I've been
interested in programming for a couple of years now.
I started out learning Python. I learned basic programming concepts, but
stopped for some time, I can't really recall why.
A year ago, I decided to try out Linux. I started with Ubuntu, jumped
around between the different flavors and other distros based on it:
Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, among others. I resumed my Python learning,
learning a bit of PyQt, and after some time decided to tackle C.
During my first semester at the University, I had a class on programming
(with C).
I worked on a project (a game using the Allegro library) and finished the
class with a grade of 19 (out of 20).
On my free time, I learned C++, a bit of Common Lisp and Prolog, and some
Bash scripting.
I'm really kind of addicted to programming and the variety of languages out
there ;)
Nowadays, I'm using Arch Linux with KDE 4.8 as my main OS, I have been
learning Qt for a couple of months and the KDE libs, git and x86 assembly for
about a week.
"
Cheers,
João Paquim
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