Welcome Janandith, let's make Scala happen for Sling during GSoc!

[Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@apache.org>]

Hi,

Please join me in welcoming Janandith, who just got accepted for the
GSoC program, to make the Scala language usable in Sling!

I'll be the official mentor for this project, but of course all
community members are welcome to chime in, and we'll do our best to
make everything happen in the open. Search for "Sling" at [1] for the
initial project's description.

Michael Duerig [2], our resident Scala expert at Day Software, has
agreed to help with the hairy Scala-specific parts of the project -
welcome Michael, I'll be counting on you for those ASCII art
programming challenges [5] once Janandith gets to creating examples
;-)

For more details about GSoC see the FAQ [3] and timeline [4] - the
plan is for Janandith to start coding around May 26th, before that the
idea is to get to know the community, get to know Sling and JCR, and
work together on refining the project's goals. I guess we're flexible
on the exact timeline, as long as it meets the GSoC requirements.

Janandith, feel free to introduce yourself, in as much or as little
detail as you see fit - we're looking forward to getting to know you
better through your work here, and to a successful GSoC project!

We had two other students apply for Sling-related GSoC projects, but
competition was fierce between students and between hosting
organizations (as some students applied to several organizations), so
I'm very happy that one out of those three applications got through.
The ratio within the ASF is more like 1 to 6, and about 1 to 7 overall
- so congratulations to Janandith for making it!

-Bertrand

[1] http://code.google.com/soc/2008/asf/about.html
[2] http://michid.wordpress.com/
[3] http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html
[4] http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_timeline
[5] http://dev.day.com/microsling/content/blogs/main/scalajcr3.html

Re: Welcome Janandith, let's make Scala happen for Sling during GSoc!

[janandith jayawardena <ja...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

Thanks a lot.
I grateful to sling-dev for helping me make my dream come true.

little bit about me,

I am janandith uditha jayawardena. I am an undergraduate of the Department
of Computer Science & Engineering in University of Moratuwa.

www.cse.mrt.ac.lk

I am in my final level(year) and currently doing my final year project. It's
a project to write a library to encode & decode PDF 417 barcodes. (these are
two dimensional bar codes).
I like to learn @ least a little bit of everything in this world. I love to
face challenges in life and GSoC is one of them.


It's a privilege for me to have this opportunity to become a part of Sling.

janandith



On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Craig L. Ching <cc...@mqsoftware.com>
wrote:

> I'll take a shot at the JCR explorer.  My time is very limited, but I'll
> try and get a start this weekend.  Is there a JIRA with some good
> requirements yet?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bdelacretaz@gmail.com [mailto:bdelacretaz@gmail.com] On Behalf
> Of
> > Bertrand Delacretaz
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:15 AM
> > To: sling-dev@incubator.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: Welcome Janandith, let's make Scala happen for Sling
> during
> > GSoc!
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Vidar Ramdal <vi...@idium.no> wrote:
> >
> > > ... I guess this means that the JCR Explorer project was
> declined?...
> >
> > Yes, unfortunately that won't happen, and there was another project
> > about creating more tests (yum ;-) which won't happen either as part
> > of GSoC. We're lucky, and very grateful to Google and everyone
> > involved, to get one slot!
> >
> > And nothing prevents the other projects from happening, it's just that
> > they won't happen within GSoC this time.
> >
> > -Bertrand
>

RE: Welcome Janandith, let's make Scala happen for Sling during GSoc!

["Craig L. Ching" <cc...@mqsoftware.com>]

I'll take a shot at the JCR explorer.  My time is very limited, but I'll
try and get a start this weekend.  Is there a JIRA with some good
requirements yet?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bdelacretaz@gmail.com [mailto:bdelacretaz@gmail.com] On Behalf
Of
> Bertrand Delacretaz
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:15 AM
> To: sling-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Welcome Janandith, let's make Scala happen for Sling
during
> GSoc!
> 
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Vidar Ramdal <vi...@idium.no> wrote:
> 
> > ... I guess this means that the JCR Explorer project was
declined?...
> 
> Yes, unfortunately that won't happen, and there was another project
> about creating more tests (yum ;-) which won't happen either as part
> of GSoC. We're lucky, and very grateful to Google and everyone
> involved, to get one slot!
> 
> And nothing prevents the other projects from happening, it's just that
> they won't happen within GSoC this time.
> 
> -Bertrand

Re: Welcome Janandith, let's make Scala happen for Sling during GSoc!

[Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@apache.org>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Vidar Ramdal <vi...@idium.no> wrote:

> ... I guess this means that the JCR Explorer project was declined?...

Yes, unfortunately that won't happen, and there was another project
about creating more tests (yum ;-) which won't happen either as part
of GSoC. We're lucky, and very grateful to Google and everyone
involved, to get one slot!

And nothing prevents the other projects from happening, it's just that
they won't happen within GSoC this time.

-Bertrand

Re: Welcome Janandith, let's make Scala happen for Sling during GSoc!

[Vidar Ramdal <vi...@idium.no>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz
<bd...@apache.org> wrote:

>  Please join me in welcoming Janandith, who just got accepted for the
>  GSoC program, to make the Scala language usable in Sling!

Congratulations to Janandith! We're really looking forward to Scala
support in Sling.

>  We had two other students apply for Sling-related GSoC projects, but
>  competition was fierce between students and between hosting
>  organizations (as some students applied to several organizations), so
>  I'm very happy that one out of those three applications got through.

I guess this means that the JCR Explorer project was declined?

-- 
Vidar S. Ramdal <vi...@idium.no> - http://www.idium.no
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