User:Ilonakz/OPW

Personal info
Name: Ilona Kuzmickaja

E-mail address: i.kuzmickaja@gmail.com

IRC Nick: ilonak on #mediawiki

Web Page / Blog / Microblog: @Ilona_K_ on Twitter

Location: Bolzano, Italy

Education: Master in Software Engineering, Free University of Bolzano, Italy

Experience with FOSS
How did you hear about this program? I received email about Outreach Program for Women from Systers mailing list.

Please describe your experience with the organization's product as a user and as a contributor I started to familiarize with the MediaWiki project based on one of its extensions called EtherEditor. Responsible mentor MarkTraceur helped me with the project setup and I worked on a small contribution related to the (Bug 39444). Thus my task was to display warning when user leaves collaboration mode. During that task I familiarized with the code, committed my own patch.

Please describe your experience with any other FOSS projects as a user and as a contributor For my Master thesis I was collaborating with the Drupal FOSS. I've created communication theoretical framework for the distributed software development. Based on Drupal community practice I've presented that theoretical framework provides a sound understanding that suggests microblogging be an effective communication media tool in conjunction with richer and synchronous tools such as video conferencing or IM.

Please describe any relevant projects that you have worked on previously and what knowledge you gained from working on themFor the last year I was working for the system to collect software engineering data invasively. System is developed in Free University of Bolzano. I was participating in system's development, wrote documentation, and case studies. Learned how to work in development team (using Agile methodology) and perform tasks on time

Project selection
What project(s) are you interested in (these can be in the same or different organizations)? I am mostly interested in the MediaWiki project, particularly in one of it's extension development, which is called EtherEditor, which allows a user edit text with other users collaboratively by marking text with different color, chat, etc.

Work Timeline
Will you have any other time commitments, such as school work, another job, planned vacation, etc., between January 2 and April 2? I am doing research for Computer Science Faculty in Free University of Bolzano.