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1) Basics
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'''1) Basics'''
  
1.1) Write a small introduction to yourself.
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'''1.1) Write a small introduction to yourself.'''
  
1.2) State your preferred email address.
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'''1.2) State your preferred email address.'''
  
 
stevedes [at] gmail [dot] com
 
stevedes [at] gmail [dot] com
  
1.3) If you have chosen a nick for IRC and Wesnoth forums, what is it?
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'''1.3) If you have chosen a nick for IRC and Wesnoth forums, what is it?'''
  
 
stevedes
 
stevedes
  
1.4) Why do you want to participate in summer of code?
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'''1.4) Why do you want to participate in summer of code?'''
 
For the experience of working on a real world project.
 
For the experience of working on a real world project.
 
An entry on my CV.
 
An entry on my CV.
 
College Credits.
 
College Credits.
  
1.5) What are you studying, subject, level and school?
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'''1.5) What are you studying, subject, level and school?'''
 
Computer Science and Engineering, 3rd of 4 years.
 
Computer Science and Engineering, 3rd of 4 years.
 
National Institute of Technology, Goa.
 
National Institute of Technology, Goa.
  
1.6) What country are you from, at what time are you most likely to be able to join IRC?
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'''1.6) What country are you from, at what time are you most likely to be able to join IRC?'''
 
India.  
 
India.  
 
4:30 to 13:30 UTC
 
4:30 to 13:30 UTC
  
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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'''1.7) Do you have other commitments for the summer period ? Do you plan to take any vacations ? If yes, when.'''
No. But University starts on 21st July. Won't be available on 18th July as well.
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No. But university starts on 21st July. Won't be available on 18th July as well.
  
 
2) Experience
 
2) Experience

Revision as of 11:56, 1 March 2014


This page is related to Summer of Code 2014
See the list of Summer of Code 2014 Ideas



This is a Summer of Code 2014 student page


ATTENTION

INCOMPLETE! Work in progress!

Description

TODO: Copy this page and write "your name - proposal title" in this h4 section

TODO: Write a small (1-4 sentences) description of your proposal here.

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

IRC

stevedes

Questionnaire

1) Basics

1.1) Write a small introduction to yourself.

1.2) State your preferred email address.

stevedes [at] gmail [dot] com

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

stevedes

1.4) Why do you want to participate in summer of code? For the experience of working on a real world project. An entry on my CV. College Credits.

1.5) What are you studying, subject, level and school? Computer Science and Engineering, 3rd of 4 years. National Institute of Technology, Goa.

1.6) What country are you from, at what time are you most likely to be able to join IRC? India. 4:30 to 13:30 UTC

1.7) Do you have other commitments for the summer period ? Do you plan to take any vacations ? If yes, when. No. But university starts on 21st July. Won't be available on 18th July as well.

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.


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) : Yes, familiar with basic git usage
   C++ (language used for all the normal source code) Yes: Proficient in C++
   STL, Boost, Sdl (C++ libraries used by Wesnoth) STL: Proficient, Boost: No, but willing to learn, SDL: Yes, experience with SDL1 and some SDL2
   Python (optional, mainly used for tools)Yes, proficient
   build environments (eg cmake/scons)No
   WML (the wesnoth specific scenario language)No
   Lua (used in combination with WML to create scenarios) No

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!