[Rails-core] Google Summer of Code 2016 - Call for Mentors

2016-03-02 Thread Federico Builes
Hello everyone, This year Rails will be participating in the GSoC under the Ruby umbrella organization (https://github.com/rubygsoc/rubygsoc/wiki). We are looking for people interested in supporting our students throughout the summer. If you want to become a mentor please send me an email

Re: [Rails-core] basE91 in Rails

2015-03-08 Thread Federico Builes
Hi Sushruth, On Mar 8, 2015, at 11:00 PM, Sushruth Sivaramakrishnan sivsushr...@gmail.com wrote: There is no evidence that it is being used a lot. But there is this, https://www.npmjs.com/package/base91 ( 100 downloads till now). We never know how much of a performance boost it

Re: [Rails-core] Rails GSOC

2015-03-06 Thread Federico Builes
Hi Sushruth, It’s nice to see you got started already! To answer your question: one of the most useful tips mentioned in the “Contributing to Rails Guides” (http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.html) is helping resolve existing issues. It’s an easy way to learn about

Re: [Rails-core] Rails GSOC

2015-03-05 Thread Federico Builes
I remember recently seeing an email mentioning this on the mailing list[0] (I coulnd’t find it but my search-fu is severely limited). The application deadline for mentoring organizations was Feb. 20, so I hope we can get the confirmation that Rails signed up as a candidate. In the meantime you

[Rails-core] Ruby Summer of Code Project

2010-04-20 Thread Federico Builes
(Sending this to talk and core, I apologize if you get two copies of this email). Hi, As part of my Ruby SOC proposals I'm thinking of working in the CI idea posted in http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rubysoc/2010/ideas Ideally, I'd like to do a two step proposal: first one would be writing custom

Re: [Rails-core] Ruby Summer of Code Project

2010-04-20 Thread Federico Builes
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Chad Woolley thewoolley...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Jeremy Kemper jer...@bitsweat.net wrote: Hi Jeremy, Yes, good points.  I've already talked with Federico offline.  I believe his original interest was in improving the rails test

[Rails-core] one more GSoC idea

2009-03-30 Thread Federico Builes
The proposal URL: http://socghop.appspot.com/student_proposal/show/google/gsoc2009/jordip/t123797787035 (anyone can see this or should I copy here the text?) You do not have the required role. You might want to send a copy of the proposal to the mailing list or upload it somewhere else.

[Rails-core] [GSoC] Rubyspec

2009-03-30 Thread Federico Builes
Hi, I was a student for GSoC under Ruby Central last year and I'd love to participate this year again, as a mentor. I'd like to include the Rubyspec project this year since I think it will help all the Ruby implementations. Right now our spec suite is failing hard under Ruby 1.9 so I'd like to

[Rails-core] [GSoC] Rubyspec

2009-03-30 Thread Federico Builes
Jeremy Kemper writes: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Federico Builes federico.bui...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to include the Rubyspec project this year since I think it will help all the Ruby implementations. Hi Federico -- solid rubyspec coverage for 1.9 would be of great