More people than I expected - standing room only!
Students came from all over the Inland Empire area.
This pie chart really shows how diverse our attendees were
We had lots of questions and we were lucky to have GSoC alums Grady Laksmono (Moodle '08) and Vijay Ramakrishnan (Optivus '11) to answer them.
- How much time do you spend on the project?
- Vijay: I spent about eight hours a day. It's like a full time job.
- How much does your mentor guide you?
- Vijay: My mentor guided me with the more technical aspects, but I coded independently. I also read a lot of research papers.
- What kinds of projects are there? How challenging are they?
- Fiona: There are a wide variety of projects. You can narrow projects down by searching according to your area of interest.
- Grady: Since I was developing an Eclipse plug-in for Moodle contributors, so I had to spend time learning the Eclipse code-base.
- Vijay: Yes, I faced a steep learning curve because I had to learn C++ from scratch. However, you can choose a project that suits your background. Don't be too ambitious!
Vijay, Grady and me answering questions
Pictures courtesy of Katie Hauser.
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