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Kelpy: creation of user page for gsoc: unfinished. will return to

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creation of user page for gsoc: unfinished. will return to

New page

{{SoC2013Student}}
[[Category:SoC_Ideas_Your_Own_Ideas2013]]

=Caution=

This proposal is under construction and can be modified any time.

=Description=
<h4>Forrest Keppler - undecided</h4>
TODO: Write a small (1-4 sentences) description of your proposal here.

TODO: Add more first-level sections to detail your proposal

=IRC=
kelpy

=Questionnaire=
1) Basics

1.1) Write a small introduction to yourself.

1.2) State your preferred email address.

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

1.4) Why do you want to participate in summer of code?

1.5) What are you studying, subject, level and school?

1.6) What country are you from, at what time are you most likely to be able to join IRC?

1.7) Do you have other commitments for the summer period ? Do you plan to take any vacations ? If yes, when.

2) Experience

2.1) What programs/software have you worked on before?

2.2) Have you developed software in a team environment before? (As opposed to hacking on something on your own)

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?

2.4) Are you already involved with any open source development projects? If yes, please describe the project and the scope of your involvement.

2.5) Gaming experience - Are you a gamer?

2.5.1) What type of gamer are you?

2.5.2) What type of games?

2.5.3) What type of opponents do you prefer?

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?

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!

=Description=
<h4>TODO: Copy this page and write "your name - proposal title" in this h4 section </h4>
TODO: Write a small (1-4 sentences) description of your proposal here.

TODO: Add more first-level sections to detail your proposal

=IRC=
put ONLY your irc nickname in there. in case of alternate nicks, separate by ,

Example content of this section: "user" "user1, user2" (without the quotes)

=Questionnaire=
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?]]

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 Data Structures
 Object Oriented Design
+database programming
 .6) What country are you from, at what time are you most likely to be able to join IRC?
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 .6) Are you good at sorting useful criticisms from useless ones
-While a more difficult task then it sounds, I think my experience as a dace instructor and Game Master who often asks for feedback has given me experience with this. When in doubt, check it against your own and other peoples experiences.
+While a more difficult task then it sounds, I think my experience as a dance instructor and Game Master who often asks for feedback has given me experience with this. When in doubt, check it against your own and other peoples experiences.
 .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

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 .2) State your preferred email address.
 kelpycreek@gmail.com
 .3) If you have chosen a nick for IRC and Wesnoth forums, what is it?
 kelpy
 .4) Why do you want to participate in summer of code?
 To be honest, Google Summer of Code is something like a dream come true for me. Like I said before, Ive always been interested in joining an open source project and also find myself in need of a job this summer; so the concept of getting paid to work full time on an open source project gets me pretty psyched.
 .5) What are you studying, subject, level and school?
 currently studying Computer Science at Western Washington University. list of classes Ive taken above intro:
 Linear Data Structures
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 .6) What country are you from, at what time are you most likely to be able to join IRC?
 United States.
 any times from 7:00 PM to 8:00AM GMT.
 .7) Do you have other commitments for the summer period ? Do you plan to take any vacations ? If yes, when.
 Ill be waiting for school to start back up again, so to be honest I wont have much of ANYthing else to do.
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 .1) What programs/software have you worked on before?
 I have never developed for an actual program before. Ive done lots of tinkering with things, but nothing serious.
 .2) Have you developed software in a team environment before? (As opposed to hacking on something on your own)
 nope. Sounds exciting.
 .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?
 have not participated before.
 .4) Are you already involved with any open source development projects? If yes, please describe the project and the scope of your involvement.
 nope.
 .5) Gaming experience - Are you a gamer?
 yes. the majority of my showers are dedicated to thinking about games and game design.
 .5.1) What type of gamer are you?
 A designer. Most of my favorite roles in games are those that involve inventing new strategies, adding rules, or managing play. Im most frequently the game master for a roleplaying game, a tactician for a MOBA, or an experimenter with social games.
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 non video-games:
 Card games, especially ones with a rules structures that change have always been a love of mine. a few of my favorites include the Dominion series and Mao with the right group of people. Magic the Gathering also deserves special mention.
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 .5.3) What type of opponents do you prefer?
 I prefer opponents dedicated to making each game different from the last. Who view games as a learning experience and so are happy to take on unconventional strategies solely for the sake of discovering if they work, or if not why they fail.
 .5.4) Are you more interested in story or gameplay?
 I believe that story and gameplay have an inseperable bond. A player who thinks the story is stupid is unlikely to be invested in the game and therefore feels unsatisfied with the gameplay. particularly difficult levels are made more intense by a story that rides upon the players success, and some of my most cherished memories of games involve sacrificing a particularly beloved unit in order to get past a difficult roadblock.
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 .5.5) Have you played Wesnoth? If so, tell us roughly for how long and whether you lean towards single player or multiplayer.
 yes. I like each mode for different reasons, but would tend toward multiplayer.
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 .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 am very fluent.
 .2) What spoken languages are you fluent in?
 just english.
 .3) Are you good at interacting with other players? Our developer community is friendly, but the player community can be a bit rough.
 yes. If I can survive the League community, Im fairly certain that I can survive anywhere.
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 .5) Do you receive advice well?
 I think so. I understand that criticism of my work should not be taken as a personal criticism.
 .6) Are you good at sorting useful criticisms from useless ones
 While a more difficult task then it sounds, I think my experience as a dace instructor and Game Master who often asks for feedback has given me experience with this. When in doubt, check it against your own and other peoples experiences.
 .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
 If anything, I often tend towards 'too autonomous,' spending lengthy amounts of time looking for solutions that require only a simple question. That being said, I find it absolutely critical to know what the project needs before taking one on, I need to know how to know when I'm finished in order to work autonously.
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 .7) What would make you stay in the Wesnoth community after the conclusion of SOC?
 I plan on sticking around regardless. My experience with the developers here so far has been amazingly positive and Im truly interested in Wesnoth.

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 .5.2) What type of games?
 I enjoy any game so long as its well designed.
 video games:
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 My favorite video game would have to be one of the Fire Emblem Franchise.
 I play rogue-like games at every chance I get (Xcomm is currently one of my favorites)
 non video-games:
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 .5.3) What type of opponents do you prefer?
 I prefer opponents dedicated to making each game different from the last. Who view games as a learning experience and so are happy to take on unconventional strategies solely for the sake of discovering if they work, or if not why they fail.

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      Subversion (used for all commits)
-       havent used before, but Im p
+       havent used before, but Im pretty adept at learning new terminal commands.
      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)
 .2) Which tools do you normally use for development? Why do you use them?
 .3) What programming languages are you fluent in?
 .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!