On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 11:51:23AM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:
My name is Emanuele Aina and I'm a student at the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. I've already worked on some open source projects, writing some years ago the run-parts applet for busybox (http://busybox.net), writing with the current Gedit mantainer an experimental system for the spell checking in GNOME (not yet released), and implementing a new generic syntax highlighting engine for GtkSourceView (temporarly hosted on the CVS of GtkSourceView on SourceForge, awaiting for a merge in the CVS HEAD).
I'm not sure if Google are aiming to attract *new* people to FLOSS development with this SoC thing. If you can find that out, it may help you to know whether it's a good idea to include that previous experience. But, of course, experience would hopefully always be considered a good thing.
This is fine. They've mentioned that an objective is to "help students from letting their Open Source skills get rusty over the summer", so I think that showing some prior experience with Open Source will be worthwhile.
Also, from Inkscape's perspective, we'll be looking favorably on applicants that have some OSS experience since they'll probably be able to get up to speed working with the project swifter.
Bryce