Google SoC 2008

2008-03-20 Thread Saint Xavier

Hi all,

I would like to participate in GSOC 2008. I saw some Wget project ideas on
http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas.html. I'm particulary interested
to improve international support and HTTP/1.1 headers support and some 
not-too-big
tasks like FTP proxy authentication.

Do you have specific requirements for applying ? Does someone already pick these
tasks or similar ones ? Is that enough for applying ?

BTW, I'm an electronic engineer student in Belgium (West Europe) and a GNU
enthusiast.

Regards,
Saint Xavier


Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-20 Thread Micah Cowan
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Saint Xavier wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 I would like to participate in GSOC 2008. I saw some Wget project ideas on
 http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas.html. I'm particulary 
 interested
 to improve international support and HTTP/1.1 headers support and some 
 not-too-big
 tasks like FTP proxy authentication.

Great! Those are certainly important improvements.

 Do you have specific requirements for applying ?

We don't have any specific requirements above and beyond the ones
mentioned at http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/guidelines.html.

 Does someone already pick these
 tasks or similar ones ?

Anything listed there (and more!) is fair game. The tasks aren't
picked until you submit your application, we rank the applications in
order of preference, and Google then assigns students to specific
project tasks. So the available tasks will all be assigned at the same time.

 Is that enough for applying ?

I'm not sure what you mean by that; but GNU's proposal guidelines are at
http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/guidelines.html. Application is
made through Google's website at http://code.google.com/soc/2008/.

Note that, the better idea you give us about how you plan to tackle the
problem, the better an idea we'll have about how suitable a candidate
you are; so please provide a fair amount of detail regarding what you
plan to do. If you have any code that is representative of your
experience, knowledge and/or style, please include that with your
application as well.

Good luck!

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer,
and GNU Wget Project Maintainer.
http://micah.cowan.name/
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