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
Short summary describing your project: what it means to accomplish, and how it will benefit MediaWiki or Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia.

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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
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Past open source experience
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Any other info
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