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Summer of Code/2014/AnaBalica/Social Help (view source)
Revision as of 16:46, 11 March 2014
, 16:46, 11 March 2014you and the community section
:Additionally I was employed as software developer for 8 months at [http://www.red-sky.com/ Red Sky] (had to quit due to change of geolocation). I have worked on [http://www.carocean.co.uk/ CarOcean] project, which is based on Scrapy framework. My responsibility was to handle about 100 different spiders (the project is available in 9 countries). Consequently I got a lot of experience in crawling the web, using xpath, regular expressions, agile methodology. As well I have worked on small PHP (Zend framework) projects.
:Additionally I was employed as software developer for 8 months at [http://www.red-sky.com/ Red Sky] (had to quit due to change of geolocation). I have worked on [http://www.carocean.co.uk/ CarOcean] project, which is based on Scrapy framework. My responsibility was to handle about 100 different spiders (the project is available in 9 countries). Consequently I got a lot of experience in crawling the web, using xpath, regular expressions, agile methodology. As well I have worked on small PHP (Zend framework) projects.
===You and the community===
*''If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.''
:'''My thoughts'''
:Social Help doesn't have a striking, absolutely vital impact on Sugar Labs community. Nevertheless this small feature will open the borders of communication for so many users on some many topics. Social Help shows a straight-forward way where to ask a question or to share your knowledge. By completing this project, Sugar Labs community will get even closer to its users through IRC and forums, which subsequently leads to a better understanding of what it's users are expecting.
:Moreover Sugar Help will become a channel to find pals all over the world with same interests via reciprocal help.
* What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?
:Research or refocus. Those are the 2 strategies that always work for me. If it is a bug, then there must be a way to solve it. Get a step back and read some documentation - maybe I have missed something important. If the issue involves a collaborative decision and the presence of the mentor is absolutely critical, then I can refocus, checkout to a new topic branch and start doing other tasks.
* How do you propose you will be keeping the community informed of your progress and any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?
:Talking from my past experience, weekly meeting are really helpful to keep everybody up-to-date (might be held only with the mentors and co-mentors). Usually I prepare lists of DONE, TODO next week and BLOCKERS. Also I am always online on IRC (using irssi via ssh) and I check it several times a day.
===Miscellaneous===
* We want to make sure that you can set up a [http://developer.sugarlabs.org development environment] before the summer starts. Please do ''one'' of the following:
** Send us a link to a screenshot of your Sugar development environment with the following modification: when you hover over the XO-person icon in the middle of Home view, the drop-down text should have your email in place of "logout".
** Send us a link to a pull request or merge request you have made on a Sugar or Sugar activity bug.
:: It's normal to need assistance with this, so please visit our IRC channel, #sugar on irc.freenode.net, and ask for help.
* Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.
* Is there anything else we should have asked you or anything else that we should know that might make us like you or your project more?
<pre>[[Category:2014 GSoC applications]]</pre>