[Systers-dev] GSoC 2010

[Robin Jeffries]

Sruthi, you sound like someone who would make a great contributor to systers
GSOC, but I encourage you to select a more challenging project than the
Wishlist project.  The Wishlist project is intended for someone who has less
programming project experience and is new to open source.  With your
previous experience, we would encourage you to pick one of the other
projects. I can't tell enough about your interests to recommend one to you,
but I suspect you would do fine in any of them.

For your exams in July, perhaps we can have an off-list chat about how much
work that is going to be and whether it will keep you from treating GSOC as
the "full time job" that it is intended to be.

Robin

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:46 PM, sruthi devi <devisruthi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>      I am Sruthi Devi, fourth semester student of B.Tech Computer Science
> and Engineering at Govt.Engineering College,Thrissur.I like to apply for
> GSoC systers mailman project Fixing and implementing wishlists items and
> bug-fixes for existing features.I am a member of systers-dev mailing list
> and my application to join systers list is pending for approval.I tried to
> build the system but got stuck at make installing mailman.I got support
> from
> the mailing list and building python 2.5 settled that issue. I got stuck at
> generating alias.db and got advice from list that I should necessarily
> shift
> to ubuntu-8.04 LTS at present. I will be doing it today.
>      Ofcourse, I have did many group projects at school and college but not
> in programming.Something outside classrooms is we have won II in maths
> project on Circles at District level Maths Exhibition during my 10th
> standard. Working in group was better than alone because good suggestions
> and co operation always increases the perfection of work.Deciding between
> varied suggestions was the challenge.
>      I have a coding experience of 4 years.Though I have used python,I
> haven't did any projects in python yet. I love C coding.I have an
> experience
> of working in open source projects like KStars which is coded in C++ and
> Qt.My name is listed in Contributors list of KStars and have commit access
> in kde. http://edu.kde.org/kstars/contributors.php .My interest in systers
> mission is that I think it would be nice to work in a project exclusively
> meant for encouraging women in computing.And these things bring me to the
> project.
>     My other commitments during GSoC timeline is there may be my S4 exams
> in the month of July.I expect that working in the project will help me gain
> knowledge in tackling problems in real programs in Python and handling code
> bases.And it is a fun to work in free software projects.Shall I proceed
> with
> the application? Thank you
>
> Regards,
> Sruthi Devi
>
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