Editing Summer of Code/Checklist

Below is a checklist to help students get set up quickly.  Items are categorized to help you prepare your application, get set up to work, and become familiarized with basic infrastructure.

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!colspan=5|<u>IN ORDER TO APPLY</u>
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px;height:25px;border:1px solid #333; margin-right:4px;">1</div>
|colspan=4|Check out our [[Google_Summer_of_Code/Project_Ideas|Project Ideas]]
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px;height:25px;border:1px solid #333;">2</div>
|colspan=4|Introduce yourself!  Don't be shy.<br>
{|width=100% style="font-size:75%"
| style="width: 16%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| BRL-CAD
| style="width: 17%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| OpenSCAD
| style="width: 16%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| LibreCAD
| style="width: 17%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| FreeCAD
| style="width: 17%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| STEPcode
| style="width: 16%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| Slic3r
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|style="text-align:left;"|E-Mail: [https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel brlcad-devel]
|style="text-align:left;"|E-Mail: [http://rocklinux.net/mailman/listinfo/openscad openscad]
|style="text-align:left;"|E-Mail: [http://forum.librecad.org/LibreCAD-dev-f4361976.html LibreCAD-dev]
|style="text-align:left;"|Forum: [http://forum.freecadweb.org Developer/User Forum]
|style="text-align:left;"|E-Mail: [https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/scl-dev scl-dev]
|style="text-align:left;"|E-Mail: [mailto:alessandro@pintle.it alessandro@pintle.it]
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|style="text-align:left;"|Chat: [irc://irc.freenode.net/#brlcad #brlcad]
|style="text-align:left;"|Chat: [irc://irc.freenode.net/#openscad #openscad]
|style="text-align:left;"|Chat: [irc://irc.freenode.net/#librecad #librecad]
|style="text-align:left;"|Chat: [irc://irc.freenode.net/#freecad #freecad]
|style="text-align:left;"|Chat: [irc://irc.freenode.net/#stepcode #stepcode]
|style="text-align:left;"|Chat: [irc://irc.freenode.net/#slic3r #slic3r]
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See [[IRC]] if you've never used it before.  Ask specific questions and wait!  [http://webchat.freenode.net/ Web interface here].

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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px; height:25px; border:1px solid #333;">3</div>
|colspan=4|Begin your application, see [[Summer_of_Code/Application_Guidelines|our guidelines]]
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px; height:25px; border:1px solid #333;">4</div>
|colspan=4|Discuss and share your project details (don't wait!)<br>
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px; height:25px; border:1px solid #333;">6</div>
|colspan=4|See [[Google_Summer_of_Code/2013|some examples]] of awesome proposals, add detail to yours ''':)'''
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px; height:25px; border:1px solid #333;">7</div>
|colspan=4|'''[http://www.google-melange.com/ Submit] your application!'''
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px; height:25px; border:1px solid #333;">8</div>
|colspan=4|Make a useful patch  ''(be awesome)''<br><div style="font-size:50%">(optional but recommended)</div>
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|colspan=5|<br>
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!colspan=5|<u>IF YOU GET SELECTED, BEFORE CODING BEGINS</u>
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px;height:25px;border:1px solid #333;">9</div>
|colspan=4|Agree to the [[Summer_of_Code/Acceptance|acceptance requirements]]<br><div style="font-size:50%">(you must do this in writing)</div>
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px;height:25px;border:1px solid #333;">10</div>
|colspan=4|Read our [[Summer_of_Code/Expectations|participation expectations]]<br><div style="font-size:50%">(read it ALL, we will quiz you later)</div>
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px;height:25px;border:1px solid #333;">11</div>
|colspan=4|Set up an interaction schedule with your mentors<br><div style="font-size:50%">(at least weekly)</div>
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px;height:25px;border:1px solid #333;">12</div>
|colspan=4|Fill out [http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2016 your profile]<div style="font-size:50%">(one sentence summary, your name, link to proposal, dev log, and melange page)</div>
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px;height:25px;border:1px solid #333;">13</div>
|colspan=4|Get familiarized with web resources
{|width=100% style="font-size:75%"
| style="width: 16%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| BRL-CAD
| style="width: 17%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| OpenSCAD
| style="width: 16%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| LibreCAD
| style="width: 17%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| FreeCAD
| style="width: 17%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| STEPcode
| style="width: 16%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| Slic3r
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|style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;"|[http://brlcad.org/ Web]<br>[http://brlcad.org/wiki/ Wiki Docs]<br>[http://sf.net/projects/brlcad SF Project Site]<br>[http://brlcad.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/brlcad/brlcad/trunk/HACKING Dev Rules]<br>[[Patches]]
|style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;"|[http://www.openscad.org/ Web]<br>[https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual User Manual]<br>[https://github.com/openscad/openscad/wiki Dev-Wiki]
|style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;"|[http://librecad.org/ Web]<br>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/16tFdu91lIVjWWz4Kjl7dF8HkRHGzgCKYciM9iZKVXK8/edit Get Involved]
|style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;"|[http://freecadweb.org Web]<br>[http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/ Wiki]<br>[http://www.forum.freecadweb.org Forum]
|style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;"|[http://stepcode.org/ Web]
|style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;"|[http://slic3r.org/ Web]<br>[https://github.com/alexrj/Slic3r GitHub repository]
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px;height:25px;border:1px solid #333;">14</div>
|colspan=4|Post your proposal online<br><div style="font-size:50%">(on our wiki is fine)</div>
* Describe your project plan
* Document a list of 3 to 10 milestones
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px;height:25px;border:1px solid #333;">15</div>
|colspan=4|Announce your plan via Chat and/or E-mail<br><div style="font-size:50%">(discuss and make adjustments)</div>
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px;height:25px;border:1px solid #333;">16</div>
|colspan=4|Download the source code, get set up<br><div style="font-size:50%">(compile, install, run)</div>
{|width=100% style="font-size:75%"
| style="width: 16%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| BRL-CAD
| style="width: 17%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| OpenSCAD
| style="width: 16%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| LibreCAD
| style="width: 17%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| FreeCAD
| style="width: 17%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| STEPcode
| style="width: 16%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| Slic3r
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|style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;"|[http://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/code/HEAD/tree/ Sources]<br>[https://github.com/BRL-CAD/web Web Sources]<br>[[Compiling]]
|style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;"|[https://github.com/openscad/openscad Sources]<br>[https://github.com/openscad/openscad/blob/master/README.md Compiling]
|style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;"|[https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD Sources]<br>[http://librecad.org/cms/home/from-source/linux.html Compiling]
|style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;"|[https://github.com/FreeCAD Sources]<br>[http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Compiling Compiling]
|style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;"|[https://github.com/stepcode/stepcode Sources]<br>[http://stepcode.org/mw/index.php?title=Building_STEPcode Compiling]
|style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;"|[https://github.com/alexrj/Slic3r git repo]
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px;height:25px;border:1px solid #333;">17</div>
|colspan=4|Submit patches to get familiarized with code<br><div style="font-size:50%">(find small tasks [http://www.google-melange.com/gci/org/google/gci2013/brlcad like these])</div>
<div style="font-size:50%">(go through the mged [http://brlcad.org/w/images/c/cf/Introduction_to_MGED.pdf tutorial](cheat sheet
[http://brlcad.org/MGED_Quick_Reference_Card.pdf here])</div> 
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px;height:25px;border:1px solid #333;">18</div>
|colspan=4|A few more things...
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| style="width: 16%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| BRL-CAD
| style="width: 17%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| OpenSCAD
| style="width: 16%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| LibreCAD
| style="width: 17%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| FreeCAD
| style="width: 17%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| STEPcode
| style="width: 16%; background-color: #eee; text-align:center;"| Slic3r
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|style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;"|Create a Sourceforge and brlcad.org wiki account.<br>Make ''perfect'' patches to obtain commit access.
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|style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;"|Everything happens on the forum. It is the one and only place where all ideas are discussed.
|style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;"|
|style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;"|Everything happens in the GitHub issue tracker. Also find us in #slic3r!
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!colspan=5|<u>ONCE CODING BEGINS</u>
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px;height:25px;border:1px solid #333;">19</div>
|colspan=4|Write maintainable, portable, complete code
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px;height:25px;border:1px solid #333;">20</div>
|colspan=4|Keep a '''daily''' log of your activities online somewhere (a blog or your wiki user page is great for this)
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px;height:25px;border:1px solid #333;">21</div>
|colspan=4|Provide a midterm report on your project progress to the mailing list as well as posting it to your blog or wiki log.
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|colspan=4|Stay motivated, engage other devs, allocate time for discussions
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px;height:25px;border:1px solid #333;">23</div>
|colspan=4|Provide a final report on your project progress to the mailing list
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|<div style="background-color:#fff; width:25px;height:25px;border:1px solid #333;">24</div>
|colspan=4|'''Keep working on BRL-CAD, OpenSCAD, LibreCAD, FreeCAD, Slic3r, or STEPcode  :-)'''
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