Hi!
Roel Janssen <r...@gnu.org> skribis:
> 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.
This sounds interesting! It’s nice that your university gives you this
possibility.
You’d need to find a project that goes from design to implementation.
That sounds a bit like a GSoC project in scope, so you might want to
look at ideas that were previously discussed. For example, it could be
a UI for the GuixSD installation process, say using guile-ncurses.
It would be best if you could familiarize yourself with Guix{,SD} and
the associated tools and APIs. Maybe ideas would naturally pop up as a
result of frustration or enthusiasm. ;-)
Once that is defined, we could probably find a mentor, preferably not me.
WDYT?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
