Congrats, guys. Hitch your wagon high.
Best, Ade. On 24 April 2012 08:22, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.bain...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is great news. It has been my experience that GSOC helps add to the > skill-sets and experience of Wikipedians in India who are then able to help > the community deal with technical issues and even construct special tools > if required. YuviPanda and his Assessment Bar come to mind. > > Congratulations, the five of you. Do us proud. > > Warm regards, > > Ashwin Baindur > ------------------------------------------------------ > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan > <srik....@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> Congrats to all folks who got through, specially to Ankur Anand, Akshay >> Chugh, Ashish Dubey, Suhas HS, Nischay Nahata who are the 5 Indians to get >> through under WMF. >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Sumana Harihareswara <suma...@wikimedia.org> >> Date: Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 00:58 >> Subject: [Wikitech-l] GSoC announcement of students for 2012 >> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org> >> >> >> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/23/wmf-selects-9-students-for-gsoc/ >> >> Ankur Anand, integrating Flickr upload and geolocation into >> UploadWizard. Mentor: WMF engineer Ryan Kaldari >> Harry Burt, TranslateSvg ("Bringing the translation revolution to >> Wikimedia Commons"). Mentor: WMF engineer Max Semenik >> Akshay Chugh, making a convention/conference extension for >> MediaWiki. Mentor: volunteer developer Jure Kajzer >> Ashish Dubey, realtime collaboration in the upcoming visual editor. >> Mentor: WMF engineer Trevor Parscal >> Suhas HS, improvements to the OpenStackManager extension. Mentor: >> WMF engineer Ryan Lane >> Nischay Nahata, optimizing the performance of the Semantic MediaWiki >> extension. Mentor: volunteer developer Markus Krötzsch >> Aaron Pramana, watchlist grouping and workflow improvements. Mentor: >> volunteer developer Alex Emsenhuber >> Robin Pepermans, working on Incubator improvements and language >> support, Mentor: WMF engineer Niklas Laxström >> Platonides, a desktop application for mass-uploading files to >> Wikimedia Commons. Mentor: me (as project manager and mentor of record; >> Platonides will consult with technical experts) >> >> >> Congratulations. You are the most promising students among the 63 who >> applied, so we chose you to participate in our Google Summer of Code >> program. Please consult your mentor to discuss what you ought to do >> during the community bonding period (now till May 21). >> >> Students whom we did not accept: please don't despair. As you can see, >> you had a lot of very strong competition, and we only had nine slots. >> We encourage you to keep learning about open source, use our IRC >> channels and mailing lists, and even work on your projects as >> volunteers! Most of us got into this hobby without GSoC, and you can >> too. :-) >> >> -- >> Sumana Harihareswara >> Volunteer Development Coordinator >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards >> Srikanth.L >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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