Google Summer of Code sample Contributor Application Form

Contact information

• Your Name:
• Email Address:
• Any professional/resume or personal/blog URLs you would like to list:

XWiki Community Presence

• XWiki Chat (matrix/IRC) Name and ID:
• XWiki Forum profile URL:
• GitHub profile URL:
• XWiki Jira profile URL:

Project

• Project Name: One of the suggestions, or your own idea
• Project Description: Your own description of the project and why you think it's interesting. Do not just copy the project's description.
• If you would be willing and able to do other projects instead, which ones?
• Please describe why you are interested in this specific project:
• Please describe a tentative project architecture or an approach to it: Important! You need to prove that you understand the project and that you have taken the time to analyze what needs to be done.
• Please detail an expected project plan and timeline with milestones: Important! You need to prove that you have realistic goals and understanding of your own ability to successfully complete the project you want to take on.

Technical skills

• Please describe in a few lines your Java/Javascript/Web knowledge or experience (if any):
• Please describe any Velocity/Hibernate/Database experience (if any):
• Please describe any XWiki experience (if any):
• Please describe any other projects that you've worked on in the past, preferably with code samples (if any):
• Please provide proof (as links) of completion for the points below, without which you have a very low chance of being selected ( !!! ).
  • Project tasks (if any are available on the page of the project you are applying to):
  • General XWiki jira issues for which you have submitted and got accepted fixes (in the form of Pull Requests) before the application period deadline:

Open Source

• Why are you interested in Open Source development?
• Please describe any previous Open Source development experience:

Background & education

• What school do you attend?
• What is your specialty/major at the school?
• How many years have you attended there?

Summer plans

• What city/country will you be spending this summer in?
• How much time do you expect to have for this project?
• Please list jobs, summer classes, and/or vacations that you'll need to work around:

GSoC Experience

• Did you participate in a previous Summer of Code project? If so (and it wasn't XWiki), please describe your project and experience:
• Have you applied for or do you plan to apply for any other Google Summer of Code projects? If so, which ones?
• Why did you decide to apply for Google Summer of Code?
• Why did you decide to apply for an XWiki project?

And finally...

• ... in 2 sentences, why should we take YOU?