'''User Information:''' 
gna: lmg 
wesnoth forums: lmg 
irc: lgraham 
preferred email: 

'''Basics'''

''Introduction (Write a small introduction to yourself. )'' 
<here>

''Education (What are you studying, subject, level and school? )'' 
In April 2009, I will have completed my second year of Software Engineering at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

''Why Google Summer of Code? (Why do you want to participate in summer of code? )'' 
I would like to participate in the summer of code to enhance my programming skills and apply the software design techniques I am learning in classes. I feel that participating in this program will enhance my educational experience and give me something practical to which I can relate when doing classwork.

''Patches Submitted to Wesnoth (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 Wesnoth. If you have gained commit access to our SVN (during the evaluation period or earlier) please state so. )'' 
<here>

'''Experience'''

''Previous Projects (What programs/software have you worked on before? )'' 
<here>

''Team Software Development Experience (Have you developed software in a team environment before? (As opposed to hacking on something on your own) )'' 
<here>

''Previous Google Summer of Code Participation (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 in Google Summer of Code.

''Open Source (Are you already involved with any open source development projects? If yes, please describe the project and the scope of your involvement. )'' 
I am not currently involved with any open source development projects.

''Gaming Experience (Are you a gamer? What type of gamer are you?What type of games? What type of opponents do you prefer? Are you more interested in story or gameplay?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.)'' 
<here>

'''Communication Skills'''

''English Fluency ( Though most of our developers are not native English speakers, English is the project's working language. Describe your fluency level in written English. )'' 
English is my first language.

''Player Interaction (Are you good at interacting with other players? Our developer community is friendly, but the player community can be a bit rough)'' 
<here>

''Advice and Criticism (Do you give constructive advice?Do you receive advice well? Are you good at sorting useful criticisms from useless ones? )'' 
<here>

'''Project'''

''Selection and Reasons for Choosing (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? Why did you choose this project? )'' 
Savegame Reorganization. For this particular project, I would like to focus on the software development process and seeing how it works in a real project. I chose this project because many of the software engineering concepts I am currently learning can be applied to this project (UML, software design process)

''Estimated Timeline (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".)'' 
<estimated timeline>

''Technical Details (Include as much technical detail about your implementation as you can )'' 
<technical details>

''Expected Outcome (What do you expect to gain from this project? What would make you stay in the Wesnoth community after the conclusion of SOC? )'' 
<expected outcome>

'''Practical Considerations'''

''Tool and Languages (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)
** I have been using C++ for almost a year (I have taken two courses using C++ as the programming language
* Python (optional, mainly used for tools)
** I have never used Pythong
* build environments (eg cmake/autotools/scons)

''What programming languages are you fluent in?'' 
C, C++, Java

''Development Tools (Which tools do you normally use for development? Why do you use them?)'' 
<development tools>

''Spoken Languages (What spoken languages are you fluent in?)'' 
I am fluent in English and have limited knowledge of French.

''Availability and Alternate Contact (At what hours are you awake and when will you be able to be in IRC (please specify in UTC) 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.)'' 
I am generally awake 1400 - 0400 UTC. I will for sure be able to be in IRC between the hours of 2300 - 0400 UTC during the week although it may vary (I don't have summer plans yet). On weekends, I am awake 1500 - 0500 UTC and can be on IRC anytime. I don't mind talking with my mentor on the phone - either regular or internet phone is good for me.

SummerOfCodeProposal lmg

2009-03-22T15:35:16Z

Lmg: New page: '''User Information:''' gna: lmg wesnoth forums: lmg irc: lgraham preferred email: '''Basics''' ''Introduction (Write a small introduction to yourself. )'' <here...

'''User Information:''' 
gna: lmg 
wesnoth forums: lmg 
irc: lgraham 
preferred email: 

'''Basics'''

''Introduction (Write a small introduction to yourself. )'' 
<here>

''Education (What are you studying, subject, level and school? )'' 
In April 2009, I will have completed my second year of Software Engineering at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

''Why Google Summer of Code? (Why do you want to participate in summer of code? )'' 
I would like to participate in the summer of code to enhance my programming skills and apply the software design techniques I am learning in classes. I feel that participating in this program will enhance my educational experience and give me something practical to which I can relate when doing classwork.

''Patches Submitted to Wesnoth (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 Wesnoth. If you have gained commit access to our SVN (during the evaluation period or earlier) please state so. )'' 
<here>

'''Experience'''

''Previous Projects (What programs/software have you worked on before? )'' 
<here>

''Team Software Development Experience (Have you developed software in a team environment before? (As opposed to hacking on something on your own) )'' 
<here>

''Previous Google Summer of Code Participation (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 in Google Summer of Code.

''Open Source (Are you already involved with any open source development projects? If yes, please describe the project and the scope of your involvement. )'' 
I am not currently involved with any open source development projects.

''Gaming Experience (Are you a gamer? What type of gamer are you?What type of games? What type of opponents do you prefer? Are you more interested in story or gameplay?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.)'' 
<here>

'''Communication Skills'''

''English Fluency ( Though most of our developers are not native English speakers, English is the project's working language. Describe your fluency level in written English. )'' 
English is my first language.

''Player Interaction (Are you good at interacting with other players? Our developer community is friendly, but the player community can be a bit rough)'' 
<here>

''Advice and Criticism (Do you give constructive advice?Do you receive advice well? Are you good at sorting useful criticisms from useless ones? )'' 
<here>

'''Project'''

''Selection and Reasons for Choosing (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? Why did you choose this project? )'' 
Savegame Reorganization. For this particular project, I would like to focus on the software development process and seeing how it works in a real project. I chose this project because many of the software engineering concepts I am currently learning can be applied to this project (UML, software design process)

''Estimated Timeline (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".)'' 
<estimated timeline>

''Technical Details (Include as much technical detail about your implementation as you can )'' 
<technical details>

''Expected Outcome (What do you expect to gain from this project? What would make you stay in the Wesnoth community after the conclusion of SOC? )'' 
<expected outcome>

'''Practical Considerations'''

''Tool and Languages (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)
** I have been using C++ for almost a year (I have taken two courses using C++ as the programming language
* Python (optional, mainly used for tools)
** I have never used Pythong
* build environments (eg cmake/autotools/scons)

''What programming languages are you fluent in?'' 
C, C++, Java

''Development Tools (Which tools do you normally use for development? Why do you use them?)'' 
<development tools>

''Spoken Languages (What spoken languages are you fluent in?)'' 
I am fluent in English and have limited knowledge of French.

''Availability and Alternate Contact (At what hours are you awake and when will you be able to be in IRC (please specify in UTC) 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.)'' 
<availability and alternate contact here>

SummerOfCodeIdeas

2009-03-22T15:24:45Z

Lmg:

This is a compilation of ideas from ML. Needs to be refined (more detailed description, deliverables, workload estimation?):

== I want to be one of your Google Summer of Code students, what should I do... ==

Here is a quick list of things to do to get you started
* Create an account on gna.org
* Create an account on the wesnoth forum, and tell an admin on the IRC channel to mark is as a GSoC Student account (Admins are boucman, Ivanovic, mordante, Shadow_Master, Sirp and Turuk)
* Join the irc channel (#wesnoth-dev on irc.freenode.net) and introduce yourself. We will not give formal interviews, but we will clearly favor people we have learned to know during the selection process (basically communication via IRC is mandatory for our project! it is the main way of "every day communication" for Wesnoth. For the same reason, it's also a good idea to regularly read the [http://wesnoth.debian.net/?C=M;O=A IRC logs].).

* Start a wiki page about your idea, add a link on the bottom of this page and add this information on it:
** List your account names (gna, forum, irc nick) so that we can recognize you
** Fill the questionnaire on this page: [[SoC_Information_for_Google#Does_your_organization_have_an_application_template_you_would_like_to_see_students_use.3F_If_so.2C_please_provide_it_now.| List of questions to answer]]
** Detail your idea as much as possible, look at other students pages, and please give milestones and studies you've done
** Add a link to the page at the bottom of this page

* Though not mandatory, it is highly advisable to go to the [[EasyCoding]] and [[NotSoEasyCoding]] pages and implement one of these ideas (or any idea of similar scope) so we have an idea how you work. Be sure to use your gna account when submitting these patches so we know who it is coming from. You can also implement some features from our feature request database at gna. When you implement something, also list it on your own page with a reference to the patch.

* For working on Wesnoth you have to be able to compile trunk. To do so you should have a look at the [[WesnothSVN|page about svn]] and afterwards [[CompilingWesnoth|compile Wesnoth svn]].

* Once you have everything done here and think your idea is okay, go to [http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/guide-to-the-gsoc-web-app-for-student-applicants page at google] to submit your application. You have to submit it before '''Date to be supplied later''' or you have no chance to get in!

== List of Ideas for the Project (Suggestions from the wesnoth developers) ==

Here is only a short description of possible Ideas we have, each has a page of its own with a more detailed version on it.

=== Optimize implementation of WML for memory usage ===

Based on this idea: [http://dave.wesnoth.org/?p=9] optimize WML to minimize its memory usage. High memory usage has been a problem for Wesnoth, and this project will aim to reduce it.

=== Implement campaign statistics reports on stats.wesnoth.org ===

Wesnoth has an infrastructure which records details of campaigns that players play into a centralized MySQL database. However, we only have rudimentary reports based on this MySQL database available at this time, at [http://stats.wesnoth.org].

This project would involve writing a stats reporting web site which would take the data from the MySQL database and produce reports in chart and table form. Campaign designers would be able to use these reports to gather feedback on their campaigns and get ideas for improvements.

A student could largely make their choice of infrastructure for creating the Website -- whether they prefer Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, etc. This is a great opportunity for someone who doesn't want to dive into hardcore C++ to make a valuable contribution to Wesnoth.

[[SoC Ideas Stats Server]] - Full Version of the idea, with detailed information

=== Extending the Multiplayer server ===

Our multiplayer community is generally strong and healthy, but we believe its growth is limited by some problems in the interface of the multiplayer lobby.

[[SoC Ideas Multiplayer server]] - Full version of the idea, with detailed information

=== Addon server ===
Wesnoth has an addon server which offers users to upload user
made content (UMC). This allows all other users of Wesnoth
to easily download and install this content. The server was
originally written for user-made campaigns but contains a lot
more types of addons nowadays. Both the server side and the
client side need to be improved.

[[SoC Ideas Addon Server]] - Full version of the idea, with detailed information

=== WML validation schemes ===
Wesnoth uses WML as basic data structure. Over the years
this language has evolved and got more complex. At the
moment the WML is validated at runtime and in case of a
problem the engine stops. With schemes these problems can
be validated when loading the WML, making it easier to find
problems before running into them.

[[SoC Ideas Schemes]] - Full version of the idea, with detailed information

=== Write a primitive library for Formula AI ===

Wesnoth has always had a simple C++ based AI. David (our lead developer) has been working on a simple language to write AI in Wesnoth: [[FormulaAI]]

The Wesnoth AI is used as an opponent in most campaigns, and as such is an important piece of code for the Wesnoth project. Unfortunately, because the skills required to understand and modify it are rather arcane, it is also one of the most neglected parts of the Wesnoth code. This is a place where a lot of research and useful work could be done. But keep in mind that [[WhyWritingAWesnothAIIsHard|writing an AI for Wesnoth is difficult]].

Writing a whole AI is so complicated that we believe it can't be done in a single Summer of code. All proposals should keep that in mind and try to identify an interesting subset that would be workable in the limited time of a summer of code

[[SoC Ideas FormulaAI]] - Full version of the idea, with detailed information

=== Savegame reorganization ===
The savegame formats of Wesnoth for single player campaigns
and multiplayer differ from each other. And they are processed
differently as well. Now there is an additional request coming
up: Multiplayer campaigns. The task will be to unify the savegames
for all types of scenarios in order to provide a maintainable code
again.

[[SoC Ideas Savegame]] - Full version of the idea, with detailed information

=== Other possible ideas to be fleshed out ===
A MapGenerator rewrite - better scalable for outdoor maps, plus the possibility to define areas (similar to the caverns in the cave generator) etc.

=== Make your own ideas ===
If you have your own idea the best thing is to join IRC wesnoth-dev at irc.freenode.net and discuss the idea with the developers there. If the developers think your idea is interesting and like the feature you can start to turn it into a full proposal. Once done discuss it again on IRC so the developers can accept your idea.

== Information about our Project ==
The information we provided google with about our project can be looked up at the site [[SoC Information for Google]].

Also see the [[DeveloperResources]] link (from the [[Project]] page).

== People to bug on IRC ==
We have prepared a list of people with their "area of competence". This is to give you an idea on which areas those people can be of help for you. Of course you should always just ask in the IRC chan, but those are the most likely ones to answer questions in the respective area. And here is the list:

[[SoC People to bug on IRC]]

== GSoC Student pages ==

Please add a link to your wiki page below

[[SummerOfCodeProposal_Velory| Velory - SoC Proposal]]

[[SummerOfCodeProposal_AI_Improvement_Crab| Crab - SoC Proposal - AI Improvement]]

[[SummerOfCodeProposal_Sparksteel | Sparksteel - Improving the AI engine design]]

[[SummerOfCodeProposal_Euschn | Euschn - Savegame reorganization]]

[[SummerOfCodeProposal_rubend | rubend - Extending the Multiplayer server]]

[[SummerOfCodeProposal_Ryochan7| Ryochan7 - Addon server]]

[[SummerOfCodeProposal_iyonius| iyonius - Addon server]]

[[SummerOfCodeProposal_res| res - Optimize implementation of WML for memory usage ]]

[[SummerOfCodeProposal_Elbin| Elbin - New campaign statistics page]]

[[SummerOfCodeProposal_lmg| lmg - Savegame reorganization]]

[[Category:Summer of Code|*]]