[gsoc] GSOC Students, what excites you?

[Anil Saldhana]

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On 04/21/2012 06:57 AM, Krzysztof Kwaśniewski wrote:
> Hi!
>
> 	To answer your questions:
>
> (...)
> Students, what excites you about the GSOC12 program with JBoss
> community?  Please answer*honestly*  (We are smart enough to figure out
> dishonest people)
>
> a) Is it the thrill of being in the gsoc 12 program?
> b) Is it the money from the gsoc program?
> c) Are you very interested to add JBoss Community on your resume?
> d) Are you doing this because you want to be part of the JBoss Community
> Open Source ecosystem?
> (...)
>
> Ad. a)
> 	Not really, I took part in GSoC last year. It was a very pleasant experience, I got to know a couple of people, but I don't feel thrilled with the program as it is. It, however, gives an option to get to know with open source organizations and take part in interesting projects. I can also learn a bit at GSoC, like last year about troubles with defining requirements for a project. ;P
>
> Ad. b)
> 	It's an important issue. When I'm expected to be honest about it, I won't deny. But it's not only about money. What I mean here is that I doubt me taking part in a boring project, even when paid for that. In the GSoC case I choose a task interesting for me and I get money for that. Last year I wrote an extension for Gdb with Python. It was quite interesting, as I understood several aspects of how an interpreter for the Tcl language works. Finally I wrote an extension with Python - I like Python and Gdb has good support for that. However, to be honest, I probably wouldn't take this project for free.
>
> Ad. c) and d)
> 	I'm not sure whether I understand correctly. If you ask whether I would like to have „taken part in GSoC with JBoss...” in my resume, then I can answer „yes” even now. When you ask about „has been a member of JBoss community”, then I'm not sure yet. JBoss community seems to be a very open and friendly one, the same I could say about the Tcl community that I got to know last year. However I'm not a member of their community now. Last year the project I have found there was the most interesting out of the possibilities I have browsed. What more, there were two persons having graduated from my university, that pointed at Tcl as a good place to start in GSoC. The project I have finished there was an extension for Gdb aimed at looking for bugs in the Tcl interpreter. In my project I didn't need to learn the Tcl language - ok, I got several main concepts, but still I didn't master that language. Now I need it for classes at my university and I have learned it a bit, b!
>   ut it's a
> completely different story. When I asked in December if someone needed any added functionality or support regarding the interpreter, it found out so far they hadn't used the code - there was no need. On the other side, the project should help especially my mentor looking for bugs - however he had important personal problems last year and maybe just he didn't have time for that? To finish that long assumptions - if things went in a different way, I might have developed my project more even after GSoC. Being a part of Tcl? Maybe. Probably the same goes with JBoss.
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> 								Best regards,
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> 									Krzysiek

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