GSoC Contributor Application Form

Last modified by Eduard Moraru on 2022/02/02 00:46

Google Summer of Code sample Contributor Application Form

Warning

Please try to answer these guiding questions when you write your Google Summer of Code application for an XWiki project.

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?

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