<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
to the list....<br>
<br>
On 04/21/2012 06:57 AM, Krzysztof Kwaśniewski wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4F92A0AA.7030703@gmail.com" type="cite">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<pre wrap="">Hi!
To answer your questions:
(...)
Students, what excites you about the GSOC12 program with JBoss
community? Please answer <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>honestly<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> (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.
Best regards,
Krzysiek
</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
</body>
</html>