Applying to work with Moodle for GSOC: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 03:12, 10 January 2012

Thanks for your interest in Moodle and for considering applying to work with us :-)

If you'd like to chat about your application, please join our gsoc2011 jabber chat:

In any Jabber client e.g. Pidgin log in using a jabber account e.g. Google Talk.
Join the group chat gsoc2011@conference.moodle.org. (In Pidgin, set the room as gsoc2011 and the server as conference.moodle.org.) Please use your real name in the chat.

Create an account on moodle.org and browse the Using Moodle course.
Enrol on the GSOC 2011 course on our Moodle Developer Courses site.
Whilst you're there, check out our Introduction to Moodle Programming course.
Download Moodle and install it on your local machine. You may like to try one of our all-in-one packages Moodle4Mac or Moodle for Windows.
Take a look at our Projects for new developers. Feel free to join in the forum discussion for any project which interests you. If you have any ideas of your own for new features in Moodle which might be suitable as GSOC projects, see New feature ideas.
Sign up for a Moodle tracker account. Please use the same username as for your moodle.org account.
Browse our list of Moodle bugs, improvements and feature requests and suggest a fix for at least one of them. See How to create a patch. Attach your patch to the tracker issue.

Feel free to use the following template, though it's not compulsory!

Personal Details

Project Proposal

What do you plan to do?

Also describe any work or research on this project you have already done.

Schedule of Deliverables

What are the milestones and deliverables for your project? You will be assessed against these. Tell us why you think this schedule is realistic.

Do you have any other commitments during this time? Provide dates, such as holidays, when you will not be available.

Note: We expect your project to be your primary focus this summer. Please do not apply if you have other summer employment.

Open Source Development Experience

Do you have any experience of Open Source software development?

Moodle Tracker issue number(s) of bug(s) you have fixed with patches attached.

Note: We require you to fix at least one Moodle bug before considering your project proposal.

Work/Internship Experience

Anything relevant to the project, or related to web design or software development.

Academic Experience

What you're studying at university/college.

Why Moodle

Tell us why you chose to apply to us.

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 * Enrol on the [http://moodle.org/auth/mnet/jump.php?hostwwwroot=http://dev.moodle.org&wantsurl=/course/view.php?id=3 GSOC 2011] course on our Moodle Developer Courses site.
 * Whilst you're there, check out our [http://moodle.org/auth/mnet/jump.php?hostwwwroot=http://dev.moodle.org&wantsurl=/course/view.php?id=2 Introduction to Moodle Programming] course.
-* [http://download.moodle.org/ Download Moodle 2.0.2+] and install it on your local machine. You may like to try one of our all-in-one packages [http://download.moodle.org/macosx/ Moodle4Mac] or [http://download.moodle.org/windows/ Moodle for Windows].
+* [http://download.moodle.org/ Download Moodle] and install it on your local machine. You may like to try one of our all-in-one packages [http://download.moodle.org/macosx/ Moodle4Mac] or [http://download.moodle.org/windows/ Moodle for Windows].
 * Take a look at our [[Projects for new developers]]. Feel free to join in the forum discussion for any project which interests you. If you have any ideas of your own for new features in Moodle which might be suitable as GSOC projects, see [[New feature ideas]].
 * [http://tracker.moodle.org/secure/Signup!default.jspa Sign up for a Moodle tracker account]. Please use the same username as for your moodle.org account.