User:Mooeypoo/OPW Application 2013

Name and contact information
Name: Moriel Schottlender Email: moo@smarterthanthat.com IRC or IM networks/handle(s): mooeypoo Location: New York City (Originally Israel) Web Page / Blog / Microblog: http://moriel.smarterthanthat.com/ Education: B.Sc in Physics, pursuing a Masters in Computer Science (expected graduation: Dec 2014)

Application Questions
How did you hear about this program? While I was in the process of applying to GSoC2013 through MediaWiki, I was approached by Sumana Harihareswara who pointed me out to the OPW page and IRC channel!

'''We advise all students applying for coding projects to apply for Google Summer of Code as well. Are you planning to apply for Google Summer of Code (once its application period opens on April 22)?'''

I am applying to GSoC2013 with a proposal regarding "Internationalization and Right-To-Left Support in VisualEditor"

Please describe your experience with the organization's product as a user and as a contributor (include the information about the contribution you made to the project you are interested in here):

I've worked with MediaWiki before as a "consumer", installing it on my web server and playing around with extensions and small modifications. When I considered going for GSoC and OPW, I looked at the MediaWiki suggestion page and tried to find if I can transform my role from user to contributor.

My contribution was a small bug fix to correct a right-to-left issue in the "Cite" extension: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/61634/

Please describe your experience with any other FOSS projects as a user and as a contributor:

I've worked with php and programmed a couple of extension to small CMS systems. These are available on my GitHub page. This will be my first time working with such a big open-source project. I'm very excited to join in!

Please describe any relevant projects that you have worked on previously and what knowledge you gained from working on them:

I've worked with Javascript, jQuery and PHP before quite extensively. One of the main side-projects I've been working on is a Metro UI Windows 8 app (Javascript/HTML5) and I've created a couple of small jQuery-based tools.

What project(s) are you interested in (these can be in the same or different organizations)?

I'd love to work on internationalization -- especially RTL languages -- in MediaWiki in general and VisualEditor in specific.

Who is a possible mentor for the project you are most interested in?

I have since spoken to a couple of possible mentors: Amir E. Aharoni offered to co-mentor and James Forrester from VisualEditor has shown interest as well. I'm hoping this will come through!

Please describe the details and the timeline of the work you plan to accomplish on the project you are most interested in (discuss these first with the mentor of the project):

Will you have any other time commitments, such as school work, another job, planned vacation, etc., between June 17 and September 23?