Re: Interested in working on WICKET-3341 issue.

[Martin Grigorov <mg...@apache.org>]

Hi Ruchiranga,

Thank you for your interest in helping us!
The best way to start contributing is to get in touch with the project
team.
Unfortunately I am not the best person to help with WICKET-3341. This task
requires requires more web design skills than (web) development skills.
>From the short resume of your skills I see that you are like me - more a
mathematician/logical guy than an artist.
Anyway, if you think that you can help and this task would be fun for you
then you have these options:

*) clone https://github.com/dashorst/wicket-site and improve it
*) create a completely new design

In both cases you can share your work with us (by giving us the url to your
GitHub/BitBucket/... project) and/or attaching screenshots in the ticket.
I can help you with the setup of Jekyll - the tool we use to build the
static site.
I hope other people here will help you with the task itself - the web
design.

Martin Grigorov
Wicket Training and Consulting


On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Thanuditha Ruchiranga <
truchiranga@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm Ruchiranga Wickramasinghe. I am currently a first year undergraduate
> student studying Computer Science and Engineering at University of
> Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
> I have good experience in programming languages like java and C. I have
> compleded developing a Bussiness Management System using java and MySQL and
> am currently engaging on developing a Particle collision simulator using
> Java. Recently i built a JSP web application that enables a user to input
> some data and store them in a MySQL database.
> I have followed an online course on Algorithms and Data structures on
> Coursera[0]. And also I have passed the Oracle Certified Java Programmer
> examination.
> I'm a newbie to this open source world but still i'm very much eager to be
> a contributor. I have come across the WICKET-3341[1] issue to create a new
> design for the wicket home page and its sub pages. I'm interested in
> contributing to it but i'm not clear where and how to start. Some advice
> will be very much appreciated.
>
> [0] https://www.coursera.org/
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-3341
>
> Thanks,
> Ruchiranga
>

Re: Interested in working on WICKET-3341 issue.

[Thanuditha Ruchiranga <tr...@gmail.com>]

Hi Martin,

Thank you for the helpful response. What you told was right, but I thought
it won't be that much of a problem since the issue page has also attached a
couple of screen shots of how the site might look like and i thought what
was asked was to design a web page by getting some idea from the attached
screen shots. But is it a completely new design that is expected actually?
or will taking an idea from the given screen shots would do the required
task?

Thanks
Ruchiranga

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Martin Grigorov <mg...@apache.org>
wrote:
>
> Hi Ruchiranga,
>
> Thank you for your interest in helping us!
> The best way to start contributing is to get in touch with the project
team.
> Unfortunately I am not the best person to help with WICKET-3341. This
task requires requires more web design skills than (web) development skills.
> From the short resume of your skills I see that you are like me - more a
mathematician/logical guy than an artist.
> Anyway, if you think that you can help and this task would be fun for you
then you have these options:
>
> *) clone https://github.com/dashorst/wicket-site and improve it
> *) create a completely new design
>
> In both cases you can share your work with us (by giving us the url to
your GitHub/BitBucket/... project) and/or attaching screenshots in the
ticket.
> I can help you with the setup of Jekyll - the tool we use to build the
static site.
> I hope other people here will help you with the task itself - the web
design.
>
> Martin Grigorov
> Wicket Training and Consulting
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Thanuditha Ruchiranga <
truchiranga@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm Ruchiranga Wickramasinghe. I am currently a first year undergraduate
student studying Computer Science and Engineering at University of
Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
>> I have good experience in programming languages like java and C. I have
compleded developing a Bussiness Management System using java and MySQL and
am currently engaging on developing a Particle collision simulator using
Java. Recently i built a JSP web application that enables a user to input
some data and store them in a MySQL database.
>> I have followed an online course on Algorithms and Data structures on
Coursera[0]. And also I have passed the Oracle Certified Java Programmer
examination.
>> I'm a newbie to this open source world but still i'm very much eager to
be a contributor. I have come across the WICKET-3341[1] issue to create a
new design for the wicket home page and its sub pages. I'm interested in
contributing to it but i'm not clear where and how to start. Some advice
will be very much appreciated.
>>
>> [0] https://www.coursera.org/
>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-3341
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ruchiranga
>
>