Hi all,
I'd really love to see some more developers volunteering to mentor some lucky students in some Moodle projects - see http://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_projects
You can come up with your own project ideas (provided it doesn't clash with our roadmap) - this is a nice chance to get something done that you've always wanted to see (without having to do all the work!). The only requirement is that you should be really familiar with how Moodle code works.
If you think you might be interested, please put your project idea on there today!
In reply to Martin Dougiamas
Re: GSOC Project: "Create Tutorials for Developing Moodle Plugins"
by Gary Anderson -
I have posted an idea that would be useful and that I am willing to mentor:
Create Tutorials for Developing Moodle Plugins
Hopefully, if this comes to be, other developers can help with testing and suggestions to make the project a nice starting point for initial developers. A number of my students can also help with the field testing.
--Gary
Create Tutorials for Developing Moodle Plugins
Hopefully, if this comes to be, other developers can help with testing and suggestions to make the project a nice starting point for initial developers. A number of my students can also help with the field testing.
--Gary
In reply to Gary Anderson
Re: GSOC Project: "Create Tutorials for Developing Moodle Plugins"
by Martin Dougiamas -
Thanks Gary, but sorry, the GSOC rules exclude documentation as projects.
In reply to Martin Dougiamas
Re: GSOC Project: "Create Tutorials for Developing Moodle Plugins"
by Gary Anderson -
Hmmmm.
My reading of the rules are
My reading of the rules are
12. Are proposals for documentation work eligible for Google Summer of Code?
While we greatly appreciate the value of documentation, this program is an exercise in developing code; we can't accept proposals for documentation-only work at this time.
It seems to me like the careful development of the exemplars is the real creative activity here and very much in the spirit of the GSOC project's goals. That it is rendered eventually in the form of a written tutorial would seem to me to less important. It is not the same as simply writing up how something written by somebody else works.