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DmitrijsLedkovs

Contact information

• Your Name: Dmitrijs Ledkovs

• Email Address: dmitrij.ledkov@ubuntu.com

• IRC nickname: xnox
• GSoC LinkID: xnox

• Launchpad ID: dmitrij.ledkov

• Skype username: dmitrij0309

• Webpage/blog: http://surgut.wordpress.com

• College-University: University of Hull, UK

• Major: MEng Mobile Telecommunications Technology (Electronics)

Project

• Project Name: One of our Ideas, or your own
• Project Description: Your own description of the project and why it's interesting
• If you would be willing and able to do other projects instead, which ones?
• Why did you like this idea?
• Please describe a tentative project architecture or an approach to it:
• Give us details about the milestones for this project
• Why will your proposal benefit Ubuntu?

Looks interesting GoogleSoC2010/Ideas

• Testdrive Front End
• Automated optimistic merging and testing of new upstream releases
• Guided Ubuntu bug fixing with Bazaar
• usb-creator Improvements

Open Source

• Please describe any previous Open Source development experience:

  • I'm maintaining Xiphos and Sword in Debian/Ubuntu. Due to this effort I've also became upstream developer of Xiphos. I did a few fixes in Ubuntu & bzr plugins. I'm currently Ubuntu Contributing Developer.

• Why are you interested in Open Source?
  • Hmmm... Because I'm a geek? I've started using Open Source because accidentally I discovered it is technologically better. Plus I can learn from it and make it better for myself and others.

Availability

• How long will the project take? When can you begin work?
• How much time do you expect to have for this project? (weekly)
• Where will you based during the summer?
  • UK (UTC+1) or Latvia (UTC+2)

Other

• Do you have any commitments for the summer? (holidays/work/summer courses)

  • Currently planned exams & dissertation viva in June, graduation party in July, line-judging beach volleyball 9-15 August Swatch FIVB World Tour 2010 in Norway.

• Have you ever participated in a previous GSoC?
  • No.
• Have you applied for any other 2010 Summer of Code projects? If yes, which ones?
  • No. But I might apply for a couple of Ubuntu projects.
• Why did you apply for the Google Summer of Code ?
  • I see this as opportunity to experience what is it like to be Open Source full-time developer. In the future I would like my career to involve developing open source software.
• Why did you choose Ubuntu as a mentoring organisation?
  • I am using ubuntu since 2007. I am ubuntu developer. I want to fix Bug #1. I love ubuntu.

  • I like the friendly developer & user community around ubuntu. During my previous work on ubuntu I've met and worked with awesome and cool developers =) some of which are mentors for GSoC.

  • Every ubuntu developer has cool Brainstorm ideas which would be really amazing to have for ubuntu development and/or ubuntu users. These cute ideas are often put aside to the when-I-have-spare-time box of each developer. With GSoC they can become reality.
• Why do you want to participate and why should Ubuntu choose you?