Hi Wojtek
2009/3/29 Wojtek Walczak <gminick(a)tosh.pl>:
Hi all,
I am a prospective GSoC participant interested in
contributing to EKG.
:)
I've browsed the archives and it seems that Kasia
Hayden is also interested in this project.
Basically I would like to ask if she (or: you, Kasia,
if you are reading it :-)) is applying,
and if she is, what exactly does she plan to propose.
I mean, I wouldn't like to repeat her ideas
in my application, and thus I am asking.
Actually, you probably don't need to worry about overlapping. You may propose to work
on the same target but you may end up implementing it completely differently than Kasia
would. I suggest that for your application, to propose your own ideas and to work from
there. On the off chance that we can accept both proposals, we might agree that you both
work towards the same goals, and then we pick the better solution in the end. You would
both finish the program successfully, of course, even if your design weren't picked.
You may also end up coordinating and cooperating with each other to work together. This
kind of cooperation is the backbone of Open Source development.
Of course, if you are both interested in working on EKG anyways, regardless whether
it's for GSoC, we would have to take the same thing in to consideration. I hope
you'll consider this.
To introduce myself shortly: my name is Wojtek Walczak,
I am 24 and I study sociology. I am a hobbyst Python
programmer for about 8 years now. My main sociological
concern is to apply my programming knowledge to it :-)
I've created a social networks analyzing tool (available
on my homepage), two Django-based web apps (with Google
Charts API used for visualizations) used to conduct
media research on my University, and now I am working
on my masters thesis tool which does Internet news portals
analysis.
I'll have a look in a little bit.
What you guys are doing is exactly what I am interested
in, and it's a pity that EKG is hidden so deep on the
mentoring orgs list.
EKG's a small project, which we do through Fedora. Maybe via your help, we can get it
to be big enough next year to apply as a separate organisation for GSoC? ;)
-Yaakov