Thank you very much Aryeh and Platonides. I think for now I will just lurk around, and than once there is something where I think I might want to take a stab at it, I'll go for it. Hopefully a database won't explode.
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > David Breneisen wrote: > > Ahoy there, > > > > My name is David Breneisen. I was referred here by James Alexander. I'm > a > > Comp. Sci. student at George Washington > > > > University and have had an interest in open education web development for > > the last few years. I thought that I might be able to offer technical > > services for the Wikiversity development/maintenance while getting some > > experience working on larger, "real," projects. > > > > > > I also hope to see if it is possible to do a more formal summer > internship > > after this school year with Wikimedia, and thought it > > > > would be nice to get used to the overall manner in which Wikimedia > > design/development goes. > > > > Regards, > > David Breneisen > > Hello David, > You can come to #mediawiki at freenode to talk with us. > Download mediawiki and take a look at it (the svn version, the last > release is is old by this time > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN) > > If you see something that from your Wikiversity experience should be > fixed in the software, I'd recommend you to go for it and submit a patch > in our bugzilla <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/>. > You could also try to implement something easy from there but > a) You're probably not so motivated. > b) The easy ones are likely picked and solved. The hard ones are those > who last. > > And if you have any doubt, just ask. "Is this reasonable?" "Will a > database explode if I perform whis query which joins eight tables and > uses no index?" :) > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
