Hi,
I am sandeep and pursuing my MS by Research at IIIT-Hyderabad.
I am thinking of applying for GSoC this year. I have gone through the ideas page of mediawiki and find the following ideas quite apt for me to work on. 1. Visual Editor Plugins. 2. Proofread extension needs to be refactored. 3. Prototyping inline comments.
I am quick learner and a good programmer. I have good knowledge in *C, C++, Python,Java* etc.. Apart from these, because of my interest in web development i learned *PHP, HTML, MySQL, JavaScript, JQuery* etc.. and implemented several websites for small startups. With the development of websites, i think i gained some experience in UI design as well.
Please let me know of further details if i want to work on any of these ideas as part of GSoC.
Thank you, Sandeep, MS by Research, IIIT-Hyderabad.
Hello sandeep! Thank you for your interest in contributing to Wikimedia.
On 03/30/2013 10:54 AM, sandeep kumar wrote:
Hi,
I am sandeep and pursuing my MS by Research at IIIT-Hyderabad. I am thinking of applying for GSoC this year. I have gone through theideas page of mediawiki and find the following ideas quite apt for me to work on. 1. Visual Editor Plugins. 2. Proofread extension needs to be refactored. 3. Prototyping inline comments.
Good! I recommend you to choose one and go for it, asking or proposing more details in the related bug reports and drafting a proposal in your user page.
Which one, this is something you should decide by yourself. Which project would you like to do even if GSOC wouldn't exist? You seem to have the basic knowledge to work on any of them, and they have good mentor coverage.
As far as we know nobody has "claimed" any of these projects. Although we don't assure exclusivity to any student, if you are already working on a proposal with an impressive draft you will probably encourage other students to look elsewhere.
PS: note that for for Visual Editor Plugins you would still need to choose a specific plugin.
Thank you for the reply and suggestion. I will decide one idea among these and will be in touch. I just like to know what are the main points that my draft should concentrate on.
Thank you, Sandeep, MS by Research, IIIT-Hyderabad
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello sandeep! Thank you for your interest in contributing to Wikimedia.
On 03/30/2013 10:54 AM, sandeep kumar wrote:
Hi,
I am sandeep and pursuing my MS by Research at IIIT-Hyderabad. I am thinking of applying for GSoC this year. I have gone throughthe ideas page of mediawiki and find the following ideas quite apt for me to work on. 1. Visual Editor Plugins. 2. Proofread extension needs to be refactored. 3. Prototyping inline comments.
Good! I recommend you to choose one and go for it, asking or proposing more details in the related bug reports and drafting a proposal in your user page.
Which one, this is something you should decide by yourself. Which project would you like to do even if GSOC wouldn't exist? You seem to have the basic knowledge to work on any of them, and they have good mentor coverage.
As far as we know nobody has "claimed" any of these projects. Although we don't assure exclusivity to any student, if you are already working on a proposal with an impressive draft you will probably encourage other students to look elsewhere.
PS: note that for for Visual Editor Plugins you would still need to choose a specific plugin.
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On 03/30/2013 11:36 PM, sandeep kumar wrote:
Thank you for the reply and suggestion. I will decide one idea among these and will be in touch. I just like to know what are the main points that my draft should concentrate on.
Google Summer of Code offers very good documentation to students. See
http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCStudentGuide/ch008_writing-a-proposal/
Also very useful:
http://google-opensource.blogspot.de/2011/03/dos-and-donts-of-google-summer-...
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