On 04/30/2013 03:03 PM, Siddha Ganju wrote:
Hi!
I am Siddha Ganju, a Computer Science and Engineering student from National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh,India. I have submitted a proposal[1] on jQuery.IME - the next big improvements.
All suggestions are welcome! Thanks!
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SiddhaGanju/GSoC_2013_Application
Thank you for the proposal. The actual URL is:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SiddhGanju/GSoC_2013_Application
I'm going to leave most of my comments on the talk page, but I did want to address one section of your proposal here: you changed "Past open source experience" in the template to "Past development experience". These are not the same thing, and although it is useful for us to know about your past experience in developing closed-source software, we are particularly interested in a candidate's past open source experience -- including filing bug reports, teaching other people how to use open source, writing useful documentation, developing specifications and designs, and contributing code.
If the answer to "Past open source experience" is "none, yet" then that is useful data for us to know as we review your proposal. Go ahead and say that -- and then read advice to people new to open source http://open-advice.org/ , complete the OpenHatch missions http://openhatch.org/missions/ , and start contributing https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute .