hi Rose, On 24 February 2010 03:42, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 23/02/2010 17:11, Suhothayan Sriskandarajah wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I’m very much interested in taking part in Apache Wookie for the >> upcoming Google summer of code and I’m also expecting to continue my >> contributions even after the gsoc. >> > > Excellent, it's good to hear from you. > > > I’m a 3rd year undergraduate in the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka >> and presently working as an intern in WSO2 which is a 100% open source >> organization. >> > > I know some of your colleagues at WSO2 very well, I trust you are all > keeping well. that's great! ya, guys here are getting busy for the March release and we are having an exiting time. > > > It would be grateful if anyone of you can help me with getting started >> with gsoc by providing information about the Apache Wookie gsoc >> projects and your expectations. >> > > At this stage the ASF is not officially part of GSoC. Nobody is as the > applications process has not started yet. Off course, having been the > largest organisation involved each year we do expect to be accepted again > this year, but there are no guarantees. > > Since we are not yet officially participating we have not yet officially > announced it to our projects and thus the projects have not yet defined > their GSOC projects. > > Having said that, I am an admin on GSoC and for the first time since 2005 I > will be looking to mentor someone on Wookie. There may be others in this > community wanting to mentor folk. > I too believe ASF will be definitely get accepted this year. > > I do have a few projects in mind, these will be announced once we are > officially a part of GSoC. However, I'd like to invite you to propose > something useful for your work with WS02, I'd love to see your Mashup server > working with Wookie widgets for example. > Presently WSO2 is using Apache Shindig for thire project "WSO2 gadget sever". This is becaues they wanted the gadget to work when its url is given, no matter where the Gadget is! when i spoke to my folks they stated their keeping this option open for future since Wookie is also using W3C Specifications. but unfortuatly for this years gsoc i dont think form the WSO2 side there will be much intrest in this of now. In the projects you hav suggested. "Widget management" quite intersected me. i'm also looking forward to your other project ideas. > Ross > Regards, Suho
