What is the communities response to this proposal? Anyone have an opinion
they care to share?
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Rimas Trumpa <rimas.tru...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am interested in taking part in the Google Summer of Code 2012.
> I have an idea of my own but I'm not sure if it's attractive enough or if
> it isn't being implemented at the moment by someone else.
> The idea is on a very early stage but I would be very glad to hear your
> opinion on it.
> It's "Sky Quiz" - a Stellarium plugin (or a built-in feature) which allows
> users to take various quizzes on the objects of the night sky. It could be
> anything - from planets and constellations to Messier objects and brightest
> stars.
> The quizzes would be highly customizable. User could choose if the quiz is
> timed, if it's "identify the object" (MCQ) or "find the object" type (or
> maybe even mixed), the list of objects (or their types) and so on...
> It would be possible to create your own quizzes and to share them with
> other users.
> Alexander thinks that this idea is very hard to implement. Yes, I agree,
> it's definitely more than a few hours of programming, but Google Summer of
> Code is a 3 month long project so I expect to spend 400-500 hours on this
> during summer and I believe it is possible to complete it in time.
> I made some very rough drafts of the Sky Quiz in action:
> http://www.laisva.lt/stellarium/planet.png
> http://www.laisva.lt/stellarium/orion.png
>
> "Sky Quiz" would be useful for teachers (easy and interesting way to test
> the performance of the class), students ("practice-mode" to improve their
> knowledge) and all the enthusiasts of astronomy.
> I have participated in quite a few astronomy competitions myself and I
> didn't manage to find any decent software to help me to prepare for the
> observation part (which usually requires some identification of the sky
> objects).
>
> A few words about me:
> I'm a 20-year-old undergraduate student of Software Engineering with
> Management (BSc) at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
> I have represented my home country (Lithuania) in a several international
> Olympiads. I should probably mention the 4th International Olympiad on
> Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2010, Beijing, China, where I won a Gold medal.
> It would be really nice to spend my summer improving a software that I
> like very much (and to get paid for doing so). :)
>
> Best regards,
> Rimas Trumpa
>
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