User:Ztugcesirin/OPW

Name: Zekiye Tugce Sirin

E-mail address: ztugcesirin@gmail.com

IRC Nick: tugce

Web Page / Blog / Microblog:ztugcesirin.blogspot.com (in Turkish)

Location: Canakkale, Turkey

Education completed or in progress (i.e., university, major/concentration, degree level, and graduation year): 3rd grade, Bachelor degree of Computer Engineering

How did you hear about this program? I heard about it from gnome-women mailing list.

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): Everyone knows "wikipedia" but when it comes to "mediawiki" I didn't know anything before. I'm a fellow wikipedia user (always helped me about things I wondered) I'm interested with git extension project because when I first read about project I thought I can work on this. Project's mentor Mark Holmquist told me to find something about "How to determine staleness of the file without making the user wait for server to request an updated git repository?" And I thought about a script that checks file's last update date. I wrote a simple php script that doing this for a ftp server.

Please describe your experience with any other FOSS projects as a user and as a contributor: Since I learnt about it (my first year at university) I'm using Linux. First I started with Pardus (it was a national Linux distribution) after Pardus I started to use Ubuntu and I'm still using it. I'm trying to use free software for my works. I'm using Mozilla Firefox, Libre Office and so on. If we don't count sending error reports, unfortunately i did not contribute projects until now. Of course there is something else, since I learn there is alternatives for Windows and all other copyrighted softwares I'm trying to make other people to learn about it, too. Also I'm trying to contribute as translator. I just began translating project in Gnome and I helped a little for Libre Office. Also I'm trying to translate some documentation about Linux.

Please describe any relevant projects that you have worked on previously and what knowledge you gained from working on them: I was wondering how to develop add-ons so I tried to develop an add-on for Firefox. I made a simple add-on to learn its basics. This way I learn a little javascript and using tools for developing add-ons. Lately I'm working on a terminal emulator like Yakuake for Gnome with one of my friends. Even though I didn't do much in this project, I've gained experience with PyGTK and my Python knowledge is better now.

What project(s) are you interested in (these can be in the same or different organizations)? I'm interested in with Mediawiki, Gnome and Firefox. I'm interested in Mediawiki git extension project because I don't know anything about it and simply I should learn. I read some documentation about basics of git and mediawiki. That helped me a lot about to understand what can and what will possibly happen in this project. I'm interested in Firefox because we had a thing before. I had fun when I tried to make add-on for Firefox and also one bug at crash-stat really took my attention. And I'm already interested in with Gnome by localization.

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): My winter semester will end at 4th of January and summer semester will start at 11th of February. So I'll be all free at this times. For rest, I'll have my classes going on. Luckily I don't have any exam between these dates so I'll be available for working any time.

Will you have any other time commitments, such as school work, another job, planned vacation, etc., between January 2 and April 2? Except my classes I don't have any other must-do at this timeline.