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See the list of Summer of Code 2010 Ideas

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

MOST IMPORTANT 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 IRC logs.).

VERY IMPORTANT Start a wiki page about your idea:
- copy-paste the source of SOC_Template_of_Student_Page to a new page, picking a suitable name for it. Please include either your real name or your irc nickname as part of your page title. For example: SummerOfCodeProposal_Nickname Through the {{SoC2010Student}} template, your page will be included in the 'Summer of Code 2010 Student Page' category, and, your page will appear in the list of student pages at the end of this page.
- List your account names (gna.org, forum.wesnoth.org, irc nick) so that we can recognize you
- Fill the questionnaire.
- Detail your idea as much as possible, look at other students pages, and please give milestones and studies you've done
Create an account on gna.org (required for committing later on)
Create an account on the wesnoth forum, and tell an admin of the forum or leader of the group on the IRC channel to mark it as a GSoC Student account (admins/group leaders are: Boucman, Crab, fendrin/Fabi, Ivanovic, Mordante/SkeletonCrew, Noy, shadowmaster, Sirp/Dave, Soliton)
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. This should give you a good idea what the Wesnoth sourcecode is like and will provide a good start to getting used to our coding style, too.

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

Once you have everything done here and think your idea is okay, go to page at google to submit your application. You have to submit it before April 9th at 19:00 UTC (12:00 noon PDT) or you have no chance to get in!

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

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

NOTE: this list of ideas is automatically generated from the 'description' section of pages in Summer of Code 2010 Idea category. DO NOT TRY TO EDIT THIS LIST BY HAND - IT WON'T WORK. INSTEAD, CREATE A NEW PAGE WITH THE {{SoC2010Idea}} template.

Create an eclipse plugin for wesnoth UMC development

Page for the idea: SoC_Ideas_Eclipse_Plugin

We want to use the eclipse platform as the IDE to assist Wesnoth UMC (user-made-content) Development. To do that, we need to create an eclipse plugin which will allow to rapidly start UMC development and which will act as a frontend for existing wesnoth UMC development tools. To do so, we need to try to integrate existing solutions as much as possible.