you are welcome :)

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:45 AM, Vincent Cheng <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Eduardo Silva <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Vincent Cheng <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Eduardo,
> >>
> >> First off, sorry for the late reply...I was pretty sure that I did in
> >> fact send a reply, but it's not on the mailing list archives nor is it
> >> in my outbox. Oh well.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Eduardo Silva <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> > Hi Vincent,
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 4:43 AM, Vincent Cheng <
> [email protected]>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hello,
> >> >>
> >> >> Just a quick introduction: I'm currently a 2nd year BSc student
> (major
> >> >> in Computer Science) at the University of British Columbia. I'm also
> a
> >> >> Debian Maintainer (for ~3 years now, see [1]) and a fairly new owner
> >> >> of one of those nifty Raspberry Pis, and lately I've been exploring
> >> >> things to do with my Pi (amongst other things, it can certainly be a
> >> >> low-power web server), which leads me to my interest with this
> >> >> project.
> >> >>
> >> >> The one thing that concerns me is that I may not have the
> prerequisite
> >> >> C experience for part of the project's requirements (i.e. outside of
> >> >> school projects I haven't done any programming in C); my strengths
> >> >> would mostly lie in the packaging/cross-compiling side of things (and
> >> >> perhaps other things like setting up a package repository). Would
> this
> >> >> still be enough to qualify me as a potential student, or would my
> lack
> >> >> of programming experience be a deal breaker?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > If i understand correctly you know C due to school stuff. I think the
> >> > questions to see if you are eligible are:
> >> >
> >> >  - Are you able to write a program in C (with threading) ?
> >> >  - Are you familiar with Python ?
> >> >  - Do you enjoy programming ?
> >> >
> >> > The program is more about coding, we dont expect the packaging will
> take
> >> > 3
> >> > months, so if you are capable to program in C and Python you are
> >> > eligible,
> >> > and of course you must to be sure that is something that you enjoy.
> >>
> >> For the most part I actually like the packaging/QA side of things more
> >> than development. It probably doesn't help that I really don't think I
> >> have the prerequisite C skills to contribute in any meaningful way to
> >> monkey right now (FWIW, threading was only briefly mentioned in that
> >> school class I talked about), so I think it's probably better to let
> >> someone else take on this task. I see that there's currently another
> >> student who posted on the list to ask about this project, after all.
> >>
> >> I took a look at the packaging, and it seems to be in pretty good
> >> shape (I do have a few patches which I'll send to the list in a sec),
> >> so there's really not that much for me to do anyways...
> >
> >
> > is totally up to you, for the GSoC context that part requires to do
> > something in C, is not so complex but you have to be able and motivated
> to
> > learn.
> >
> > Patches are welcome!, thanks
>
> At the moment, I'm not even sure if I'll have enough time to commit to
> GSoC. I guess I'll mull over it some more...
>
> Of course that doesn't mean I can't work on the packaging bits outside
> of GSoC. ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Vincent
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