User:J.a.coffman/GSoc 2013 Proposal

Name and contact information
Name: Jeremy Coffman Email: jcoffman93@gmail.com IRC or IM networks/handle(s): Typical working hours:

My working hours are fairly flexible, and I would be happy to change them. Barring any requests, the following is what I have planned so far:

From May 7 to August 29:

18:00-01:00 (UTC) or 10:00-5:00 (PST)

Synopsis
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Deliverables
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About you
I am currently completing my second year at Brandeis University, where I am studying Computer Science (and possibly also Linguistics and East Asian Studies), with a possible focus on Natural Language Processing. I have experience writing in Python, Ruby, Java, and Javascript with slight exposure to C.

Participation
I intend to make regular commits to a github repo to allow my mentor(s) to monitor my progress. I am already subscribed to the wikitech-l mailing list, and I plan to be available on wikitech's IRC channel both during my working hours and, ideally, outside of them as well. In addition to communicating with my mentor(s) via whatever method they find most convenient, I expect to post about any problems I encounter on IRC. Since I plan to become a regular contributor to MediaWiki, I would also like to keep myself informed of the progress of ongoing projects in the community. This would give me some idea of what I might work on after my modifications to the dump scripts are ready to be integrated.

Past open source experience
While I do not have experience working on an explicitly open source project, I did collaborate with two other students and the City of Boston in developing a application for the city. The github repository can be found here: Wheres My Lane

Any other info
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