[eclipse-dev] OLM Plugin as a GSoC projct...

["Isuru Suriarachchi" <isurues@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I saw the GSoC idea which is available at https://www.drproject.org/olm/wiki/OLMSoC2007 to write an Eclipse plugin to integrate with the Online Marking Tool (OLM). I found it really interesting and hope to apply for this project. I contacted Mr. Greg Wilson and he is quite pleased to get this project done.

 

Currently I'm working on writing the proposal for the plugin and I'll be able to post it very shortly. But still I don't have a mentor. So could someone please volunteer as my mentor for this project??

I'm a Level 3 undergraduate student of the Computer Science and Engineering department of University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I have been using Java for more than 4 years and have a reasonable knowledge in SWT as I have experimented with Eclipse plugins before.

I have some previous experiences in open source developments. By now I have been working on Apache Axis2/Java ( http://ws.apache.org/axis2/) for more than 5 months. I was working on several areas of Apache Axis2 and I implemented JSON Support for Axis2. It was a great experience for me as I'm still new to open source development. I have posted an article on this implementation with more details at http://wso2.org/library/768. I have been offered the Apache Axis2 committership for my contribution in Apache Axis2 projcet. Other than that I have contributed the Codehaus/Jettison ( http://jettison.codehaus.org/) project and submitted reasonable amount of patches as I needed Jettison while I was working on JSON implementation in Axis2.
 
I think I have gained reasonable amount of experiences in open source development through working on above mentioned projects. I'm really interested in open source development and always hoping to contribute in valuable projects.

Thanks in Advance,
~Isuru Suriarachchi