Re: [limesurvey-developers] GSoC Application - Reviews Wanted :-)

[Marcel M. (Limesurvey) <mar...@li...>]

Hi Jason,

the application looks great, thanks a lot for all the work you put in 
it. I only recognized a minor typo:
"By participating in GSoc 2008 we hope to give development on Version 2 
(which has been steady so far) a further kick start through attracting 
development resources."

2008 -> 2009!

Best regards,
Mazi

Jason Cleeland schrieb:
> Hi everyone,
>  
> I'll be completing the Google Summer of Code Application tomorrow (by 13
> March 17.00 UTC). Before I do so, I was hoping to get feedback or
> suggestions from the rest of the development team.
>
> There is a bit of information I need. Thibault & Carsten Wittenberg have
> offered to be mentors (thank you heaps) - could you guys let me know your
> google account information? This won't be needed for the original
> application, but will be helpful later.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions, corrections, additions or comments, please
> let me know ASAP :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason Cleeland
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>  
> Mentoring Organisation: The LimeSurvey Development Community
> http://www.limesurvey.org/
>
> 1.	Describe your organization.
> LimeSurvey is an Open Source GPL Web Based Online Survey tool that has been
> active and continually growing since March 2003. The LimeSurvey Development
> Community, like the project in general, has been growing steadily over this
> time.
>
> LimeSurvey is widely used. It has been downloaded from Sourceforge over
> 100,000 times in the last year, and is included as a package in the Ubuntu
> Linux Distribution, as well as being included as a pre-installed application
> in many standard Web Hosting packages (such as Fantastico).
>
> LimeSurvey is recognised as a leader in its field. On November 29, 2007
> LimeSurvey won the 1st prize award at the Les Trophées du Libre contest in
> the category Corporate Management. In 2008 LimeSurvey was nominated in the
> category Best Project for the Enterprise in the SourceForge.net Community
> Choice Awards 2008.
>
> 2.	Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2008? What
> do you hope to gain by participating?
>
> LimeSurvey version 1 has reached certain functional limitations, and
> subsequently the development community has commenced a complete rewrite of
> the tool, from the ground up known as LimeSurvey 2. 
>
> The rewrite is being built using CakePHP, a rapid development architecture
> and hopes to be more web2 oriented. However the new version requires focused
> development work in order to get a functioning version off the ground. And
> until there is a functioning version the existing older version of
> LimeSurvey is most attractive to the development community.
>
> By participating in GSoc 2008 we hope to give development on Version 2
> (which has been steady so far) a further kick start through attracting
> development resources.
>  
> We are applying for GSoC 2009 to attract development resources and
> developers to our new version, and gain some momentum. The LimeSurvey
> development team has been growing steadily since 2003, and we hope this will
> encourage more young developers to be involved in the community on an
> ongoing basis.
>
> 3.	What is the main public mailing list for your group?
> lim...@li...
>
> 4.	What is the main IRC channel for your group? 
> freenode #limesurvey-dev
>
> 5.	What criteria do you use to select the members of your group? Please
> be as specific as possible.
> The members of the LimeSurvey development team who are part of the GSoC
> group are experienced coders who are familiar with the code structure and
> aims of the LimeSurvey 2 project. 
>
> 6.	Did your organization participate in past GSoCs? If so, please
> summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your
> participation.
> We have applied but not been successful.
>
> 7.	If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have
> you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? 
> LimeSurvey applied in 2008 but was unsuccessful in gaining any student
> places.
>
> 8.	What license(s) does your project use?
> LimeSurvey is licensed under the GPL2
>
> 9.	What is the URL for your ideas page?
> http://docs.limesurvey.org/tiki-index.php?page=LimeSurvey+2+Project+Ideas+fo
> r+GSOC+2009
>
> 10.	What is the main public mailing list for your group?
> lim...@li...
>  
> 11.	What is the application template you would like contributors to your
> organization to use?
>
> We would like our applications to be done via an online survey (which can be
> saved, and returned to later if need be).
> http://surveys.limesurvey.org/index.php?sid=xxxxxx
>
> ===========================================
> STUDENT APPLICATION TEMPLATE
>
> 1: Please complete the following information:
> (if you can't answer any, enter 'none')
> Your Name:	
> Your Email:	
> Your Skype ID:	
> MSN Contact Info:	
>
> 2: Please summarise your proposal:
>
> 3: Please detail milestones and deliverables for your proposal:
> Milestones and deliverables are points or stages during the project that can
> be used to check that appropriate progress is being made. A milestone may be
> a point where certain functionality is available. Milestones or deliverables
> have to be measurable and explicit, so there has to be something you can
> show to indicate that a milestone or deliverable has been attained.
> If your proposal is succesful, we will pursue milestones and deliverables
> more with you, but we need an indication initially of what the key
> milestones are in your opinion.
>
> 4: What Open Source Development Experience do you have?
> Please let us know of any experience you have with Open Source projects,
> whether that be large coding projects, bug reports or tiny bug fixes.
>
> 5: Other coding, work or related experience:
> Let us know any other experience or skills you  have that are related to our
> project, your proposal and your capacity to achieve the goals you've set
> out.
>
> 6: Academic Experience:
> Please detail what you are studying at your higher education institution
> that is relevant to our project and your proposal. Let us know you're going
> with it.
>
> 7: Why have you chosen LimeSurvey?
> Let us know why you chose to apply for GSoC with LimeSurvey.
>
> ======================= 
>
> 12.	What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?
> There are two elements to our plan. The first is to identify absent students
> quickly. To do this we will institute weekly reports and subsequent online
> meetings to ensure continued contact between students and mentors. Students
> will be expected to provide brief summaries of daily activities via email.
> These procedures will be in addition to their milestone reporting. 
> Should a student actually no longer be available to continue with their
> project we would consider approaching unsuccessful student applicants to
> take over the position/proposal.
>
> 13.	What is your plan for dealing with disappearing members?
> Since or mentors are established and long term development community members
> the likelihood of them disappearing is low. Each proposal will be issued
> with a main mentor and a backup so that in the case that a mentor is unable
> to continue during the course of the project, the backup mentor would
> takeover. The LimeSurvey development community is of sufficient depth that
> would be numerous backup mentors available should more be needed.
>
> 14.	What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your
> project's community before, during and after the program?
> The LimeSurvey development group meets weekly at our IRC channel. Students
> would be expected to participate in this meeting, prior to commencing their
> proposal, as well as during. We hope that the community itself, and the
> enjoyable experience of development & user feedback that occurs in the
> LimeSurvey community will encourage the students to remain part of the
> community and development team.
>
> 15.	What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with
> the project after GSoC concludes?
> Naturally, sticking with the project is optional. Given that this is the
> case, we hope that the students – having been introduced to LimeSurvey and
> the community that surrounds our product – will naturally stick with the
> project. The organisation group will work to ensuring this as much as
> possible by selecting students who have a natural affinity to the project in
> the first place, and doing all we can to help them become part of the
> community environment that exists around LimeSurvey.
>
> 16.	Who will your organization administrator be? 
> The organisation administrator will be Jason Cleeland
> (jas...@gm...). Jason is the project founder of LimeSurvey and a
> senior developer on the LimeSurvey development team.
> Jason Cleeland: jas...@gm...: jcleeland
>
> 17.	What is the main development mailing list or forum for your
> organization?
> lim...@li...
>
> 18.	Does your organization have an application template you would like
> to see students use? If so, please provide it now.
>
> 19.	Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please include
> Google Account information.
> Carsten Schmitz: car...@gm...
> Carstens Link ID: 
>
> 20.	Who will your mentors be? Please include Google Account information.
> Jason Cleeland   : Project Founder: jas...@gm...
> Carsten Schmitz : Project Leader : car...@gm...
> Carsten Wittenberg : Core Designer
> Thibault Le Meur     : Development Lead
>
>
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