Re: [anjuta-devel] Anjuta and GSoC2013

[Varad Gautam <varadgautam gmail com>]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 5:44 AM, James Liggett <jrliggett cox net> wrote:

> Looks like a great start. Just a few comments:
Thanks for taking the time to review the application.


> This has to be at least somewhat figured out before you submit your
> proposal. When I was a GSoC student I noticed that the admins seemed to
> care about this part the most. It doesn't have to be set in stone; in
> fact you should leave yourself a lot of room for parts of the project
> that run longer than expected, because I guarantee you there will be at
> least one milestone that will slip. It happens, especially when you're
> working with an unfamiliar codebase and technologies. It's also
> perfectly OK if you don't get to everything during the summer. But we
> would like to have something that's somewhat useful and can be easily
> understood and possibly maintained by other developers should you not be
> able to continue the project past the end of the summer. Plus, we're
> going to need some type of benchmark for midterm and final evaluations.
I get it. But I'm having problems figuring out the timeline because of
my lack of experience. I'll work it out as soon as I'm sure of what
all features I plan to deliver with some consultation from the
community.

> Your background seems pretty varied and interesting. Would it be
> possible for you to list the names of or at least some links or other
> references to these projects? It would be helpful if we could have a
> look at some of your work so that we can evaluate your experience
> firsthand. Think of us as a potential employer--we want to see evidence
> that you can actually code, work as part of a team, and learn new skills
> on the job. ;)
I worked on an informal project in college this year aimed at building
a home automation system which uses Julius as its speech recognition
backend and OpenCV for object detection. The work hasn't been
documented anywhere as of now as it's still a work in progress. I have
a few videos of the project in action which I can put up on the
internet, but I don't think that would count as documentation...

> On a related subject: in past years GNOME has required GSoC applicants
> to work on a bug in our Bugzilla. Have you found one to work on yet?
Yes, I have worked on a patch for bgo#698036
(https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698036), but it requires
some more attention which I haven't been able to provide because of my
studies.

Thanks.
Varad