[Soc-coordination] Questions about participation

[Karolina Kalic]

Hi Thomas, Ana and Obey,

Your answers put a smile on my face. :) I will start learning Python, I am
planning to do so for quite some time, my friend recommended it to me too.
Now I have bigger reason to do it. I'll try to improve my packaging skills
until the project starts. I hope you will choose me for GSoC, but still, if
you don't, I will still continue to contribute and to use Debian with love.
:)

Greetings and thanks a lot for your kind words,
Karolina



On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 23:30, Obey Arthur Liu <arthur at milliways.fr> wrote:

> Hi Karolina,
>
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Karolina Kalic <karolina at resenje.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi to all,
>>
>> My name is Karolina, I'm a student from Serbia, and a proud user of
>> Debian. Some may know me from Debian Women list. I'm also a packager for
>> Debian, pidgin-microblog is my package, and I'm preparing some new ones in
>> recent time. But, I'm not a programmer, at least not yet. So, I was
>> wondering if there is some way that I could participate in Google Summer of
>> Code. I saw that in Google Code-in was some projects that are not strictly
>> code related. I would like very much to participate in GSoC, I would like to
>> learn to code to, if that is possible in such short notice. Please tell me
>> if there is a chance for me, so that I don't apply if It is not possible. I
>> would continue to contribute to Debian no matter what. And I'll see you at
>> DebConf, of course. :)
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Karolina
>>
>
> You're enthusiastic about Debian, know how Debian works and are eager to
> learn, so you're already far ahead of many people.
> We're only in March. That gives you one and a half month before we start
> ranking submitted proposals. That's plenty of time to start thinking about
> projects and get yourself started on a language of your choice.
> My personal bias would be to start learning Python. It's easy to learn and
> powerful to use and used by many Debian tools. Think about it!
>
> Good luck. Don't let yourself be intimidated by code.
>
> Arthur
>
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