Dear list, As I'm new to this list, let me introduce myself shortly. My name is Roel, and I live in the Netherlands. Projects I (have) work(ed) on: * GNU InklingReader: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/inklingreader/ * clmedview: https://github.com/roelj/clmedview/ (sorry, it's Github; This was an internship project as well).
I've been following GNU Guix for about two years now (admittedly on and off) and I used it in combination with Debian. For a bachelor's degree in software engineering, I have to do an internship. Naturally, I would like to contribute to a GNU project, and my particular interest goes to GNU Guile and/or GNU Guix, because I think Scheme is an elegant language, GNU Guix is great for a user's freedom as well as a beautiful approach to package management, and I've had a very pleasant experience interacting with the people working on this project (thank you so much). The internship should be in the form of a project that can be done in about 800 hours (spread over 20 weeks) of work. For this I need: * a mentor who has at least two hours a week (~ 40 hours in total) time for guiding me; - This should take place from February 15, 2016 to July 17, 2016 * the assignment must cover three cycles of the software engineering lifecycle (roughly speaking: [Maintain/analyse/advise/design/implement] a software system). * A subproject that I can work on by myself (with a little guidance from a mentor) If anyone could help me, I can provide the GNU Guix project with: * 800 hours of work on the project (minus some overhead of writing and doing presentations at my university); * Some exposure of this project to people at my university; * After completion I would like to continue contributing to the project. * Free beers (or non-alcoholic drinks) at FOSDEM, in case anyone of this project will be there. So, does anyone see the possibility to be a mentor for my internship? If so, what areas in the project could I contribute to? (I need some guidance formulating the exact assignment (before it can be approved by my university).) Thank you for reading my long e-mail. Kind regards, Roel Janssen