Hi Karolina,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Karolina Kalic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karolina@resenje.org">karolina@resenje.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi to all,<br><br>My name is Karolina, I'm a student from Serbia, and a proud user of Debian. Some may know me from Debian Women list. I'm also a packager for Debian, pidgin-microblog is my package, and I'm preparing some new ones in recent time. But, I'm not a programmer, at least not yet. So, I was wondering if there is some way that I could participate in Google Summer of Code. I saw that in Google Code-in was some projects that are not strictly code related. I would like very much to participate in GSoC, I would like to learn to code to, if that is possible in such short notice. Please tell me if there is a chance for me, so that I don't apply if It is not possible. I would continue to contribute to Debian no matter what. And I'll see you at DebConf, of course. :)<br>
<br>Thanks in advance,<br><font color="#888888">Karolina<br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You're enthusiastic about Debian, know how Debian works and are eager to learn, so you're already far ahead of many people.</div>
<div>We're only in March. That gives you one and a half month before we start ranking submitted proposals. That's plenty of time to start thinking about projects and get yourself started on a language of your choice.</div>
<div>My personal bias would be to start learning Python. It's easy to learn and powerful to use and used by many Debian tools. Think about it!</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck. Don't let yourself be intimidated by code.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Arthur</div></div>