Hi, On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 16:07 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear John Shaw
It's Joe, actually. :) > So, I'm asking you to quickly evaluate whether I should apply at all. I > know I'm running late, but I would really like to participate in order to > get some real life experience in coding in connection with a project I > find instersting. If your main interest is in obtaining some real life experience, my suggestion would be to try to "dive in" to a project first in your spare time, if you can. The SoC is a little more rigorous than your typical open source development, because students are expected to thoroughly design their system, sketch out deliverables and a timeframe, and then meet those deadlines or not get paid. If I were a student I would find it to be rather stressful, myself. :) You may want to build your confidence first by working on a project "for fun" if you have time this summer, and then participate in the SoC next year. Or maybe a SoC project would be exactly what you need to build that confidence. You're the only person who can make that decision. > The project im considering is the "Searching against Lucene Directly" > project. It involves c# which is where my interests currently lies I don't know if I should be talking about already presented applications, but I've already read one which plans to tackle this issue and stands a pretty good chance of being accepted. I don't mean to discourage you from applying, but you might want to consider a different project. Almost all of the ones on our idea page are in C#. Hope this helps, Joe _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers