Hello,
On 2/6/16 5:07 AM, Buddhi Vikasitha wrote:
Hi,
I'm Buddhi Vikasitha, an undergraduate of the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering at University of Moratuwa.
I thought about contributing to major projects while doing my studies at
the university. Searching for some potential opportunities to work, I
saw that you offer student developers to work with your projects. Also
there was the link to GSoC 2016 project details.
I was very happy you have programs for students. I would like to know
and join if there is any more programs offered for students than letting
us contribute by code. But even with contributing to the phpMyAdmin
Community I have a lot to know yet.
What exactly do you have in mind? There are many ways you can contribute
that aren't writing code. You could help test/verify issue reports, help
answer questions on Stack Overflow, write tutorials, or translate
phpMyAdmin in to your language as a few ideas. We don't run any official
programs like GSoC for non-coding contributions, but we still welcome
those contributions as well.
Can I know some answers to my questions? About how can
I get started,
what kind of work is there, and how can I contribute to your projects,
how to get to know your people from here, etc. is what need to know. A
Getting to know people will be mostly just communicating on the mailing
list. The rest sort of depends on what you're interested -- as I
mentioned, there are several ways to get involved without contributing
code, but it will depend on what interests you.
more detailed explanation than the webpage is what I
seek for. At GSoC
2016 I am more than happy to contribute to you because contributing to a
As far as I am aware, GSoC is limited to actual application code due to
Google's guidelines.
major project in the world is what I am going achieve
these days. I need
information about the above points if you are happy to provide them.
Hope you get back to me with a reply to this. Thank you very much.
Regards,
Isaac
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