Hi,
That's a great news to hear. But it would be wonderful if any Bangladeshi
Student could get selected for media wiki. AFAIK this year 3 Bangladeshi
Students have been selected in Google Summer of Code (aka GSoC). One in
Apertium, one in Blender and another one in FFmpeg. I also participated in
GSoC in 2010 for Chromium along with two others in Apertium and Yafaray.
This year before the selection process we arranged a info session about GSoC
in BUET and around 40 students joined the session. We hope to arrange it
again before the program in 2012, the next years program. Hopefully we'll
able to motivate students more to apply for Media Wiki or orgs related to
Wikipedia that time.
@Foysal Have a look here:
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Belayet Hossain <bellayet(a)gmail.com> wrote:
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/04/mediawiki-selects-8-students-gsoc-201…
We received more than 25 proposals for this year’s Google Summer of
Code<http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/03/projects-students-mentors-wan…c/>,
and several mentors put many hours into evaluating project ideas, discussing
them with applicants, and making the tough decisions. Our final choices,
the Google Summer of Code students for MediaWiki for 2011:
- Akshay
Agarwal<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/User:Aksha…
“Account Creation, Login Screens and AJAX-ification of everything” (mentor:
Brandon Harris)
- Kevin Brown’s “Working Archival for Web References/Citations,” “to
facilitate the archival of external links used as references in the English
Wikipedia” (mentor: Neil Kandalgaonkar)
- Devayon
Das<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/User:Devayon&g…
“Improving Semantic Search/Semantic Query usability issues in SMW” (mentor:
Markus Krötzsch)
- Ankit
Garg<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/User:Ankitgar…
“Semantic Schemas extension” (mentor: Yaron Koren)
- Salvatore
Ingala<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/User:Salvat…
“AMICUS: Awesome Monolithic Infrastructure for Customization of User
Scripts” (mentors: Brion Vibber and Max Semenik)
- Aigerim
Karabekova<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/User:Ai…
“Extension Release Management” (mentors: Sam Reed, Priyanka Dhanda, and Chad
Horohoe)
- Yuvi
Panda<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/User:Yuvipan…
“Making Offline Wikipedia Article Selection Easier with Mediawiki
Extensions” (mentor: Arthur Richards)
- Zhenya Vlasyenko <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:Zhenya>‘s
“MediaWiki Extension: SocialProfile – UserStatus feature” (mentor: Jack
Phoenix)
You’ll be hearing more about each of these projects in the next few weeks!
Congratulations to this year’s students, and thanks to all the applicants,
as well as MediaWiki’s many mentors, developers who evaluated applications,
and Google’s Open Source Programs
Office<http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/>m/>.
The accepted students now have a month to ramp up on MediaWiki’s processes
and get to know their mentors (the Community Bonding
Period<http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/g…)
and will start coding their summer projects on or before May 23rd. As
organizational administrator for MediaWiki’s GSoC participation, I’ll be
keeping an eye on all eight students and helping them out.
Good luck!
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