Students interested in working on a Mifos project in the Google Summer of Code should answer the questions below in their application.
Hints
- keep answers terse and to the point
- "N/A" is fine for "not applicable"
- please include the question texts in your application and clearly delineate the questions from your responses
- skipping questions is ok
- also see our frequently asked questions
Questions
- Project idea:
- Briefly cover what you expect to complete in this project and when
- Why are you the right person for this project?
- If in college, current area of study:
- Contact information and preferred method of contact (email, Gitter ID, Skype id, telephone number, time zone):
- Career goals:
- Please share any links to source code you have written or websites you have built.
- If you have visited our IRC channel, what nickname did you use?
- Have you contributed to other open source projects? If so, which?
- Have you any previous experience with JavaScript/Java/Spring/Hibernate/MySQL?
- What other commitments do you have this summer? (working on this project is a full-time job and must be your primary commitment!)
- Have you deployed and run the Mifos X Platform (https://github.com/openMF/mifosx) and reference User Interface (https://github.com/openMF/mifosx-community-apps)?
- Have you submitted any patches or source code to Mifos X yet? Please provides links to the commit in GitHub or the JIRA ticket (students looking to be seriously considered should make at least one submission)
- Have you previously participated in the Google Summer of Code?
- Are you applying to multiple organizations this year?
- If you answered "yes" to the last question, which is your first choice?