On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:32 PM, David Breneisen drb@gwmail.gwu.edu wrote:
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.
This list, and irc://irc.freenode.net/mediawiki, are good places to lurk and get to know people. The source code for MediaWiki proper can be obtained with:
svn co http://svn.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/trunk/phase3
You can look for bugs to fix, and submit patches, at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/. More info is at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker. If you have any questions, here or IRC is the best place to ask.