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| − | =[GsoC] Questionnaire=
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| − | ==Basics==
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| − | '''1.1) Write a small introduction to yourself.'''
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| − | '''1.2) State your preferred email address.'''
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| − | '''1.3) If you have chosen a nick for IRC and Wesnoth forums, what is it?'''
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| − | '''1.4) Why do you want to participate in summer of code?'''
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| − | '''1.5) What are you studying, subject, level and school?'''
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| − | '''1.6) What country are you from, at what time are you most likely to be able to join IRC?'''
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| − | '''1.7) Do you have other commitments for the summer period ? Do you plan to take any vacations ? If yes, when.'''
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| − | ==Experience==
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| − | '''2.1) What programs/software have you worked on before?'''
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| − | '''2.2) Have you developed software in a team environment before? (As opposed to hacking on something on your own)'''
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| − | '''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?'''
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| − | '''2.4) Are you already involved with any open source development projects? If yes, please describe the project and the scope of your involvement.'''
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| − | '''2.5)Gaming experience'''
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| − | '''2.5.1) Are you a gamer?'''
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| − | '''2.5.2) What type of gamer are you?'''
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| − | '''2.5.3) What type of games?'''
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| − | '''2.5.4) What type of opponents do you prefer?'''
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| − | '''2.5.5) Are you more interested in story or gameplay?'''
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| − | '''2.5.6) Have you played Wesnoth? If so, tell us roughly for how long and whether you lean towards single player or multiplayer.'''
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| − | ==Communication Skills==
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| − | '''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.'''
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| − | '''3.2) What spoken languages are you fluent in?'''
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| − | '''3.3) Are you good at interacting with other players? Our developer community is friendly, but the player community can be a bit rough.'''
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| − | '''3.4) Do you give constructive advice?'''
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| − | '''3.5) Do you receive advice well?'''
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| − | '''3.6) Are you good at sorting useful criticisms from useless ones?'''
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| − | '''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'''
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| − | ==Project==
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| − | '''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?'''
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| − | '''4.2) If you have invented your own project, please describe the project and the scope.'''
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| − | '''4.3) Why did you choose this project?'''
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| − | '''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".'''
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| − | '''4.5) Include as much technical detail about your implementation as you can'''
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| − | '''4.6) What do you expect to gain from this project?'''
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| − | '''4.7) What would make you stay in the Wesnoth community after the conclusion of SOC?'''
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| − | ==Practical Considerations==
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| − | '''5.1) Are you familiar with any of the following tools or languages?'''
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| − | * '''Subversion (used for all commits)'''
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| − | * '''C++ (language used for all the normal source code)'''
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| − | * '''STL, Boost, SDL (C++ libraries used by Wesnoth)'''
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| − | * '''Python (optional, mainly used for tools)'''
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| − | * '''Build Environments (eg cmake/autotools/scons)'''
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| − | * '''WML (the wesnoth specific scenario language)'''
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| − | * '''Lua (used in combination with WML to create scenarios)'''
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| − | '''5.2) Which tools do you normally use for development? Why do you use them?'''
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| − | '''5.3) What programming languages are you fluent in?'''
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| − | '''5.4) APIs/Frameworks/Engines I've coding in'''
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| − | '''5.5) 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!'''
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