[WLANware] GSoC 2017 - student introduction

[Clemens John]

Hi Marcin,

welcome to the WLANware Mailinglist. In this email you will find everything you 
need to know about the application process and plans for the project you 
mentioned.

On monday Freifunk has been accepted as mentoring organization so please 
bookmark March 20th in your calendar. That is the date when student 
application period opens and I would really appreciate your application!

This year we offer much more projects than in the past but as always we dont 
know how many stipends we will get from google. So application is kind of a 
lottery and if you need to work on holiday, please consider a plan B as 
fallback.

If application goes well, the project will work out for shure. The coding part 
of the project is not too hard in my opinion. You already mentioned Laravel 
and Debian so you will feel at home in our environment and you will have 
enough time to design and test architecture and finish GSoC succesfully with 
code we can use in production.

In short about me: I'm 27 and still a student in computer science too at 
University Osnabrück. I'm with Freifunk since 2009 and work as a software 
engineer and "dad for everything that has to do with computers" 2 days a week 
in a small local business for funding my studying.

In your application please tell us in short the usual skill-stuff but more 
important something about yourself: why do you think anonymity is important? 
Have you ever been into a hackerspace? Do you have any special interests or 
any favorite meal? What do you want to do in 5 years from now and what does 
matter for you in life?

To give you a short prospect of what is planned to get you into the project 
after successfull application:

Community Bonding (May)
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We will participate in the Wireless Community Weekend in Berlin (26th to the 
28th of May). There we will meet people from the Freifunk Nordwest Community 
(https://ffnw.de), which is my home community, and people from many other 
communities as well. You will get to know everything about free wireless 
communities and we can finish the plans for architecture and software stack for 
your project so that you can start without any trouble when coding phase 
begins.

We have a budget for traveling and accomodation so dont worry about this. This 
will be the first time I participate in WCW too so WCW will be new for both of 
us. But I have already traveled to berlin in the past so if you have never 
visited Berlin we will have time for visiting the city.

After community bonding we will have 3 coding phases. In the past students had 
to write a blog post about their progress on our freifunk blog at the end of 
each coding phase. Then students and mentors fill out their evaluation. I'm 
quite shure this year will be the same.

Coding phase 1 (June)
+++
This phase is for implementing the backend (Laravel) and setting up some graph 
storage or graph server.

Codig Phase 2 (July)
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This phase is for performance testing of the backend and displaying graphics 
in the web client (Angular 2).

Note: I will have my last (and hardest -.-) exams in July so all the big 
questions should be solved in community bonding and coding phase 1 so that you 
can work and come up with your own ideas in phase 2. At the end of phase 2 the 
project should be near to production ready.

Codig Phase 3 (August)
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The last phase is kind of backup. If performance testing showed up some big 
trouble and we had to start over then phase 3 is our buffer for getting the 
work into production and finish GSoC successfully.  But if everything works as 
expected then it is up to you to take a look at whatever feature or technology 
interests you.

Note: In August I will travel through eastern europe for vacation but I will 
take mobile internet with me so I'm available if input is needed.

I hope this information was helpful to you. If you have any further questions 
previous to application please dont hesitate to ask :)

Best wishes
Clemens

Am Montag, 13. Februar 2017, 15:30:10 CET schrieb Marcin Czarnecki:
> Hello all,
> 
> My name is Marcin, I am studying Computer Science at the University of
> Brighton (in the UK). I am interested in participating in Google Summer of
> Code 2017 with your organisation. I am a web security and anonymity
> enthusiast, tried to work with the Tor Project for GSoC 2016 but it did not
> work out.
> 
> 
> Project idea of working on Netmon's web server and API and visualization
> caught my eye. I think that I could be a quite good fit for that project.
> 
> Project idea: https://wiki.freifunk.net/Ideas#Netmon_Software_Compilation
> 
> First thing is Laravel, that's my favorite PHP framework to work with, have
> been working with it for almost a year, I know it may not be long but I
> have done quite few interesting freelancing projects in Laravel in the past
> and have gained few happy customers.
> 
> I also have got commercial experience working with automation and data
> visualization from my internship. Working with Nagios, Grafana and Graylog
> and supporting an internal product on a daily basis. The monitoring stack I
> am most familiar with is Nagios -> graphios -> graphite -> Grafana, so got
> some experience in that field. Most of the monitoring and data displaying
> was either suggested or implemented by me.
> 
> I am quite familiar and feel more comfortable working with Linux,
> preferably Debian based. But got some experience with enterprise Linux
> distros as well (RHEL).
> 
> If you have any questions you can contact me on my email: marnczarnecki[at]
> gmail.com. I am researching about your projects and organisation so I can
> come up with questions myself :)
> 
> Many thanks,
> Marcin

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