User:MaraJade

SoC2013 Student page

This is a Summer of Code 2013 student page

Contents 1 ATTENTION 2 Description 2.1 TODO: Copy this page and write "your name - proposal title" in this h4 section 3 IRC 4 Questionnaire

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Description

MaraJade - Something to do TODO: Write a small (1-4 sentences) description of your proposal here. TODO: Add more first-level sections to detail your proposal

IRC

MaraJade

Questionnaire

1) Basics 1.1) Write a small introduction to yourself. I'm MaraJade. I'm a second year Computer Science student at Oregon State University. I've been using Linux for about a year, but I've used other open source programs for a long time.

1.2) State your preferred email address. goossenm@onid.orst.edu

1.3) If you have chosen a nick for IRC and Wesnoth forums, what is it? MaraJade

1.4) Why do you want to participate in summer of code? I want to get started in the open source community, but it can be overwhelming. The summer of code will give me a great opportunity to get started. I wish to work on The Battle for Wesnoth because I enjoy games. I discovered this game a few weeks ago, and I have enjoyed it. It would be fun to work with it.

1.5) What are you studying, subject, level and school? I am a second year student at Oregon State University, studying for a B.S. in Computer Science.

1.6) What country are you from, at what time are you most likely to be able to join IRC? I am from the United States. Currently I am most likely to be on IRC after noon.

1.7) Do you have other commitments for the summer period ? Do you plan to take any vacations ? If yes, when. Other than a day or two around July 4th, I don't have any plans.

2) Experience 2.1) What programs/software have you worked on before? Unfortunately, I haven't worked on anything outside of school.

2.2) Have you developed software in a team environment before? (As opposed to hacking on something on your own) I have not.

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 not.

2.4) Are you already involved with any open source development projects? If yes, please describe the project and the scope of your involvement. No I am not.

2.5) Gaming experience - Are you a gamer? Yes.

2.5.1) What type of gamer are you? I am a casual gamer.

2.5.2) What type of games? I prefer strategy or role playing games, such as Starcraft, Skyrim, or The battle for Wesnoth.

2.5.3) What type of opponents do you prefer? I prefer opponents that are challenging, but near my skill level.

2.5.4) Are you more interested in story or 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. We do not plan to favor Wesnoth players as such, but some particular projects require a good feeling for the game which is hard to get without having played intensively. 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. 3.2) What spoken languages are you fluent in?

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? Git (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?

TODO: fill out the questionnaire, on your copy of this page. Question are here : SoC_Information_for_Google#Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use?