On 28/04/13 14:08, Catalin Usurelu wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Catalin Usurelu, I'm a second year CS student, and I am > interested in the project entitled "Debian Android App". I tried > contacting the mentor mentioned on the official ideas page, but I > haven't received any reply. Is the project still available? With whom > should I talk about it?
Hi Catalin, All projects are potentially available unless the mentor removes it from the wiki Debian contributors are volunteers, some of us only respond intermittently. If you really feel strongly that this is the right project for you, then I would encourage you to carefully look at the GSoC student applications from 2012 to see an example of the type of proposal you need to write - you need to have a complete proposal on the wiki page before Friday (3 May). You don't need the mentor to give you a specification, it is quite OK to propose your own ideas or ideas that you develop from discussions with the Debian community (e.g. through IRC, local group meetings, ...) There are also some hints on my blog about what questions you should answer in your project proposal It is very beneficial for you to show the GSoC team an example of your work in an open source project - as you are interested in Android, I presume you are a Java programmer. A good way to show your work would be to pick some open source Android app (e.g. any app that is hosted by f-droid.org) and add some new feature or fix some bug. Even creating some extra Junit tests is helpful. Create a link to the patch from your GSoC wiki application. If you choose to contribute on the apps for dynalogin or Lumicall, I will be happy to suggest some trivial programming tasks you could complete to demonstrate your skills. Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ Soc-coordination mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
