Thank you very much Aryeh and Platonides.
I think for now I will just lurk around, and than once there is something
where I think I might want to take a stab at it, I'll go for it. Hopefully
a database won't explode.
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
David Breneisen wrote:
Ahoy there,
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.
Regards,
David Breneisen
Hello David,
You can come to #mediawiki at freenode to talk with us.
Download mediawiki and take a look at it (the svn version, the last
release is is old by this time
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN)
If you see something that from your Wikiversity experience should be
fixed in the software, I'd recommend you to go for it and submit a patch
in our bugzilla <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/>.
You could also try to implement something easy from there but
a) You're probably not so motivated.
b) The easy ones are likely picked and solved. The hard ones are those
who last.
And if you have any doubt, just ask. "Is this reasonable?" "Will a
database explode if I perform whis query which joins eight tables and
uses no index?" :)
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