Hi Stefan, Thanks so much for your detailed response. I will look into the suggestions you made, and work on my application today.
Thank you. Kind regards, Miriam Hochwald On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 05:36:34PM +1000, Miriam Hochwald wrote: > > To whom it may concern, > > > > I would like to express interest in contributing to Apache Subversion. > > Hi Miriam! > > I've volunteered as mentor for Subversion in OPW 2013. > > > Projects of interest: > > > > - > > > > Improve bindings to other programming languages. > > - Show progress output. > > - Improve 'svn help'. > > - More customizable behavior for 'svn diff'. > > > > My core languages are C, C++ and Java. I have a familiarity with other > > languages as well (e.g. Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS etc.). > > Do you have preference regarding which of these projects you'd > like to work on? Have you investigated any of these projects > more closely, and do you have any questions regarding any of > these projects? > > Picking a project that you'd love doing and which will keep you > motivated is very important. You should have a gut feeling about > what the project entails, what you might want to learn about or > discover along the way, and communicate your thoughts on this. > > Given that you know C and Python, the two main langauges used in > Subversion, you could take up pretty much any task of reasonable > scope for the 3 month internship. So if you find anything else > that interests you but is not the ideas list please don't hesitate > to talk to me about alternative project ideas. > > > At this point in time I don't have Apache Subversion exposure. However, I > > note that there is an online book on the topic. My Noob status would > > provide a good insight into common learner perspectives, with relevance > to > > the projects. I do have familiarity with UNIX and CVS. > > Familiarity with CVS should be good enough, given that Subversion's > development is rooted in fixing CVS's shortcomings :) > > > Please let me know if you would like to proceed with these discussions. I > > note that the deadline for the Outreach Program for Women is the 3rd of > > December. > > Subversion joined the OPW program just last week, so the deadline for > 3rd of December is rather tight. You should certainly try to formally > submit your application by then, but making a small contribution by > 3rd of December is not a strict requirement. > > Please note that as a project we prefer to keep any communication which > doesn't involve sensitive or private matters on the dev@ list (i.e this > list), which is publicly archived, so that everyone involved can stay > on top of what's going on. > > I'm 'stsp' in #svn-dev on freenode, BTW. I'll try to be reachable > for you there as well, as far as my current schedule permits. > -- Founder & Director Girl Geek Coffees (GGC) sites.google.com/site/girlgeekcoffees
