Robin - thank you for drafting this proposal! It's also helpful if you can make the connection between your project and how its outcomes will benefit the WM community. "This resolves ABC problem that has come up." or "Fulfills the common request for XYZ feature that we currently don't have."
For students interested in GSoC, Robin's posting of a draft submission on the wiki models a good initial step to take. Your proposal on MediaWiki.org is something you should link to in your official GSOC application to Google. More info: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012/Application_template
As a reminder to everyone. Folks are encouraged to review on and collaborate with students via these proposals, IRC and email to share ideas, offer assistance, support, etc. This is a phenomenal opportunity to integrate (assimilate?) the skills and time of some very talented students into the MediaWiki community. I'll be categorizing these proposals today into this category for your convenience (students are welcome to add their applications to this category): https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Summer_of_Code_2012_applications
The deadline for submitting applications to Google (which is done in addition to your proposal on MediaWiki.org) is April 6th and will be here sooner than you think!
-greg aka varnent
On Mar 28, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Robin Pepermans wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to participate in Google Summer of Code. After thinking about several options (global preferences, export/import, ...) I took the subject that I am most excited about and that is a continuation of what I have been doing as a volunteer, improving Incubator (with an extension) and language support of MediaWiki. Please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SPQRobin/GSoC , any feedback is of course welcome. (It's difficult to guess what is too little or too much.) As I am not home from 31 March till 6 April, I will have to submit it now in two days, because I am not sure I will have internet access during that week.
Thanks Robin
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