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: Just graduated Master in Computer Science in Software Engineering, Free University of Bolzano, Italy

Experience with FOSS
How did you hear about this program? I belong to the Systers community, thus I saw some of the Systers posted about ability to take a part in Outreach Program for Women internships.

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 was interviewing developers to analyze how microblogging is used in distributed software development. Also, I was extracting their tweet and contribution information.

Please describe any relevant projects that you have worked on previously and what knowledge you gained from working on them Last year together with my team member we created Android application, which by using the phone’s camera and augmented reality libraries displays the name of the points of interest around the user. During the development I have learned how to create mobile app in Android OS.

Project selection
What project(s) are you interested in (these can be in the same or different organizations)? I am mostly interested in the MediwWiki 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 also doing some research work, but I was also doing it during my studies, thus I will be able to spent 40 hours per week for my project.