[gsoc] GSOC Students, what excites you?

Mon Apr 23 12:01:05 EDT 2012

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On 04/22/2012 04:26 PM, Khobaib Chowdhury wrote:
> Hi Anil,
>
> For long time, it was my desire to join open source movement. Starting 
> with GSoC is of course thrilling as you have a certain goal & a 
> deadline and more importantly, you have a mentor who guides you to 
> achieve the goal. For a starter, this guidance is very much important.
> If I am selected for GSoC, the money will keep me well-funded for my 
> student life. Of course, it's a lucrative offer to learn towards open 
> source and get paid for the project at the same time.
> I want to write about JBoss org in my resume if that's not a problem.
> For last few days, I spent my time to learn JBoss tools & some 
> projects related to my proposal. It's not only for a four month GSoC 
> project. I wish I am going to be part of the organization & contribute 
> what I can.
> Thank you.
>
> Regards -
> Khobaib.
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Anil Saldhana 
> <Anil.Saldhana at redhat.com <mailto:Anil.Saldhana at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     I am really glad to see the responses from the students. True,honest
>     conversations are a forte of open source software. :)
>
>     In an ideal world, there would be unlimited gsoc slots to accommodate
>     all students. But there are just a finite number of slots.  We have to
>     reject many student proposals.
>
>     Would the rejected students continue to participate in JBoss
>     community?
>
>     On 04/20/2012 11:31 AM, #HARJOBEN SINGH# wrote:
>     > Hi Anil,
>     >
>     > I am a Computer Engineering student from NTU, Singapore. I
>     applied to gsoc for a jBPM project which aims to use the engine on
>     Android devices to make the app development process similar.
>     >
>     > Answering your question aimed at all the students, I would like
>     to say the only reason I chose this project was because I was
>     interested in the description and I had heard a lot about the
>     JBoss community and wanted to be part of the community. I had
>     previous experience in Android development so I believed I had the
>     required experience to pull off this project. That was the reason
>     I approached the project mentor, Kris Verlaenen, on what he
>     expects from the project. Had I been interested in GSOC only for
>     the money, I would have applied to 10 different companies and
>     submitted proposals to various projects(although the money is
>     lucrative, no doubt).
>     >
>     > I didn't apply for any summer internship for lack of any good
>     technical organisations in Singapore and was anyways looking for
>     some project to do this summer. I have no previous experience with
>     open source but have always admired it. This seemed like a very
>     good opportunity to try it out as well. I would love to continue
>     with the project even if it is not selected as part of GSOC
>     program. It would be great working with you as it has been great
>     knowing whatever little of jBPM I have experienced till now
>     (Thanks to Kris' help and his blogs).
>     >
>     > I might play around with jBPM even if I don't work with JBoss. :P
>     >
>     > Thank you
>     >
>     > Regards
>     > Harjoben Singh
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>     > Subject: [gsoc] GSOC Students, what excites you?
>     >
>     > Hi gsoc students,
>     >      soon GSOC will announce the accepted student proposals and the
>     > rejected proposals.  Until they make the formal announcement, please
>     > disregard any accepted/rejected emails that the system may send.
>     > Apparently there are bugs in the Google Melange site. :)
>     >
>     > While there will be a few happy students, there will be many
>     students
>     > who will turn unhappy.  The main reason is that the number of
>     gsoc is
>     > always finite/limited where as the Ideas/Proposals is large.
>     >
>     > At JBoss community, we have been very thrilled to see so much
>     excitement
>     > among both the mentors and students.
>     >
>     > Now I come to an important question for our gsoc students who put in
>     > their proposals.
>     >
>     > 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?
>     >
>     > I am asking all these questions because I want to see if you can
>     > continue to be part of the JBoss Community ecosystem, if your
>     proposal
>     > is rejected.
>     >
>     > "I am looking for passion for open source."
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     > Anil
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> Khobaib Chowdhury
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