Hi everybody,
I’m Pere Villega, a developer from Barcelona currently living in Dublin, and new to the mailing list. I contact you regarding Google Summer of Code 2011. I’m a student that would like to join the program this season and I’ve found your project interesting. I contacted Florian Moga (I thought he was a mentor :P) and he told me to write here to you all. First of all I want to do a disclaimer: I’m studying and working full time. Last year I was part of GSOC 2010 under the same conditions (working and studying) and contributed a project to Duraspace ( https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/GSOC/GSOC10+-+Add+Unit+Testing+to+Dspace). The project was a success and was incorporated into trunk at the end of GSOC. I say this because I want to show that although I won’t be working 40h/week on GSOC, I’m able to deliver. I expect to contribute around 15h each week, some weeks maybe more. If you prefer a full time student, I will understand. If having a part-time dedication is an issue, I completely understand it and I won’t submit any proposal. I truly appreciate your time spent reading this. The purpose of this email is to know if the members of the project would be interested in me working in your project, and in such case to establish a first contact with some mentor. I have many years of experience in Java development and I’m a beginner in Scala. I’ve seen some ideas of Florian related to that area, that’s why I first contacted him. To be fair, I don’t know too much about the project (although I know about SOA and I want to learn more about it, another reason why I’ve become interested on Tuscany), so another reason of this email would be to know which are the priorities for the project. I understand that GSOC is a perfect opportunity so use extra man-hours to implement things that can’t be easily achieved during the year with the standard work of committers (that’s what happened in my last GSOC) and by knowing what the project needs I can both create a better application and benefit Tuscany more. If someone is interested please contact me via the mailing list or directly via email. Best regards and thanks for your time, Pere Villega
