Who: Elayne Morais, elayne.morais@gmail.com, I'm always available at GTalk. IRC nickname: emorais
I'm an Computer Science ungrad student at University of Campinas (Unicamp) in Brazil.
Have you contributed to a open source project before? No, I haven't. But I really want to start.
Why do you want to do a project involving Drupal? I never worked with Drupal. I'm finishing college and looking for something I can get engaged in. I think Drupal is a great choice, especially because its community is so welcoming.
Overview: I like the project idea for improving groups.drupal.org interface. I'm new to Drupal, so this would be a good start to learning about Drupal itself and about its community. I hope I can make improvements that will help everybody here.
Description:
Improvements to the interface are not hard to implement. I'll need to collect sugestions from the community, what's missing, what's too much, what could be changed, and then create a preview. From that, it's just start working. What is fascinating about this is that I can get some visibility and at the same time I can help community to interact better.
Schedule:
Summer break in Brazil is Dec-Feb. Our first semester (your Spring term) is finished around second week of June and our second semester (Fall term) starts at the beggining of August. Thus, I'll have one and a half month of free time. I'm taking just a few classes this semester, so it won't be hard to dedicate time to the project, even more time than a summer break.
Week 1-2: Get familiarized with Drupal 7.
Week 3-5: Propose improvements to community and hear suggestions.
Week 6: Propose preview and make adjustments.
Week 7-10: Implement improvements.
Week 11: Hear from community
Week 12-13: Make final adjustments.
Mentors:
I'm talking to wundo, who will be helping Unicamp students, as he said.
Puzzle:
Don't know much of PHP, still learning. =/
(My project won't need it for now.)
Links:
coming soon
Hope to hear suggestions.
