Hello members,
I am Ashish Mittal, a pre-final year BE student of Computer Engineering from
Sardar Patel College of Engineering, India. I intend and am very keen to
take part in GSoC 2011 with MediaWiki as my mentoring organization this
year.
I am new to this list and to this organization and I wish to contribute here
as a developer.
I have already participated in GSoC 2010 under Sakai Foundation where I
created a subsystem ‘Event Explorer’ [0] for them. I have experience with
the mentioned required tools and technologies like Eclipse, Maven, Ant, Git,
SVN, MySQL, Struts, Grails, JSP, Servlet, HTML, CSS, Javascript/JQuery,
AJAX, JUnit and Mockito. I am good with UI interfacing and web 2.0 tools.
I got a local copy of MediaWiki and have installed it. I want to start
getting to grip with the architecture of MediaWiki.
I saw that MediaWiki has already started preparing for SoC 2011 [1]. I have
been through some documentations and this year’s project ideas. I am
primarily interested in *MediaWiki core* [2]. If you could plase give me
some important and relevant pointers which would help me understand the
project more, it would be very appreciated.
Also I wanted to know if there are some tasks which I could work on prior to
timeline so as to get a better understanding of the architecture and code
base. So if you could please give me some information on the above, it will
be very helpful to me. Thanks in advance.
[0] -
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/KERNDOC/KERN-717+Event+Explorer
[1] -
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2011
[2] -
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2011#MediaWiki_core
Regards,
Ashish
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Ashish Mittal
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