Hi Mike,

On Apr 21, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Mike Patterson <mikepatterson77@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey all,

I discovered GSoC within the last few days and saw that phpMyAdmin was a mentoring organization.

I've been coding in PHP and using phpMyAdmin to manage my database backends for the last couple of years. So I would really love to help contribute to this excellent open source project.

But given that I have only just discovered GSoC, and one of your application requirements is to have already contributed to phpMyAdmin, am I too late to make a contribution and apply?

Absolutely not! Have you seen the Applicant Guide on the wiki [1]? Pay particular attention there to the timeline — I believe that what's important is that you've submitted some code by the application deadline. 


If not, what can I do to contribute?

Even if you're not accepted or interested in participating in GSoC, you're welcome to contribute patches or feedback on bug reports and feature requests. You might refer again to the wiki [2] for more details. 

Any recommendations?

Thanks!

Mike Patterson
Computer Science 2014
University of Pennsylvania


~Isaac

1 — http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/GSoC_2013_Applicant_Guide
2 — http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/Tasks_for_junior_developers