User:Gsoc Gust
1) Basics
1.1) Introduction:
1.2) Email: gustavo.pinho.pt@gmail.com
1.3) Nick:
1.4) Why do you want to participate in summer of code?
I want some working experience.
1.5) What are you studying, subject, level and school?
I'm studying Informatics Engineering in FEUP. I'm currently in last year of MSc. Studies.
1.6) What country are you from, at what time are you most likely to be able to join IRC?
I'm from Portugal therefore I can be online from 9h till 24h (GMT+0).
1.7) Do you have other commitments for the summer period? Yes, until 22 of July I will be writing the state-of-art chapter of my MSc. thesis and working a bit on the main project.
2) Experience
2.1) What programs/software have you worked on before?
I have worked on an Android program for my faculty internal use;
I have worked on an iOS project for a company last summer;
I'm currently working in Reinforcement Learning applications to Quad-copters, as my MSc. thesis.
2.2) Have you developed software in a team environment before? (As opposed to hacking on something on your own)
I have indeed, I'm now part of a 6 people team on a fake company as a school course, however our project is proposed and payed by an external company. Also I have spent all my years in school dong team projects.
2.3) Have you participated to the Google Summer of Code before? As a mentor or a student? In what project? Were you successful? If not, why?
I have never participated, I applied for a Android project a couple years ago, but I gave up on the selection phase because I got a summer job.
2.4) Are you already involved with any open source development projects? If yes, please describe the project and the scope of your involvement.
I have developed some pieces of open source code, but nothing major or that was merged on release. I'm however currently developing some as part of my thesis that will surely added to the OpenPilot.org project.
2.5) Gaming experience - Are you a gamer?
I am indeed.
2.5.1) What type of gamer are you?
I would say now I'm a casual player as I haven't time for more.
2.5.2) What type of games?
Mostly MMORPG but I also play good games when I find them.
2.5.3) What type of opponents do you prefer?
Smart ones ;)
2.5.4) Are you more interested in story or gameplay?
It depends on the game I like to read the lores in MMORPGS, but any game can lack a good gameplay.
2.5.5) Have you played Wesnoth? If so, tell us roughly for how long and whether you lean towards single player or multiplayer.
No, never. I will however, I have seen some youtube videos and it looks very good for a opensource game.
2.6) If you have contributed any patches to Wesnoth, please list them below. You can also list patches that have been submitted but not committed yet and patches that have not been specifically written for GSoC. If you have gained commit access to our repository (during the evaluation period or earlier) please state so.
3) Communication skills
3.1) Though most of our developers are not native English speakers, English is the project's working language. Describe your fluency level in written English.
I'm good at English, I have lived abroad and spoken only English for half a year.
3.2) What spoken languages are you fluent in?
Besides English, Portuguese of course :D
3.3) Are you good at interacting with other players? Our developer community is friendly, but the player community can be a bit rough.
3.4) Do you give constructive advice?
3.5) Do you receive advice well?
3.6) Are you good at sorting useful criticisms from useless ones?
3.7) How autonomous are you when developing ? Would you rather discuss intensively changes and not start coding until you know what you want to do or would you rather code a proof of concept to "see how it turn out", taking the risk of having it thrown away if it doesn't match what the project want
4) Project
4.1) Did you select a project from our list? If that is the case, what project did you select? What do you want to especially concentrate on?
4.2) If you have invented your own project, please describe the project and the scope.
4.3) Why did you choose this project?
4.4) Include an estimated timeline for your work on the project. Don't forget to mention special things like "I booked holidays between A and B" and "I got an exam at ABC and won't be doing much then".
4.5) Include as much technical detail about your implementation as you can
4.6) What do you expect to gain from this project?
4.7) What would make you stay in the Wesnoth community after the conclusion of SOC?
5) Practical considerations
5.1) Are you familiar with any of the following tools or languages?
Subversion (used for all commits)
C++ (language used for all the normal source code)
STL, Boost, Sdl (C++ libraries used by Wesnoth)
Python (optional, mainly used for tools)
build environments (eg cmake/scons)
WML (the wesnoth specific scenario language)
Lua (used in combination with WML to create scenarios)
5.2) Which tools do you normally use for development? Why do you use them?
5.3) What programming languages are you fluent in?
5.4) Would you mind talking with your mentor on telephone / internet phone? We would like to have a backup way for communications for the case that somehow emails and IRC do fail. If you are willing to do so, please do list a phone number (including international code) so that we are able to contact you. You should probably *only* add this number in the application for you submit to google since the info in the wiki is available in public. We will *not* make any use of your number unless some case of "there is no way to contact you" does arise!