Got accepted in GSOC!

[jportela]

Thanks to everyone who made this possible!

Not only I'm happy because I got accepted as a GSOC student, but because I'm doing the internship here in Dreamwidth, and most of all because my mentor is denise, who introduced me to Dreamwidth (other mentors don't take this personal, I would have loved to work with everyone of them, and I know I'll still have your help).

I also want to congratulate the other students and most of all cheer up everyone who didn't got selected. 3 friends of mine didn't get selected for GSOC this year :(. You can also work on your spare time as a volunteer, the experience you gain will certainly give you an edge for next year!

So, what's next?

Here's my plan for the community bonding period (until May 24):

- Discuss project goals with my mentor 
- Learn Perl and the intricacies of Dreamwidth
- Getting to know the polling system on Dreamwidth
   - Solving Bug 28 - that should give me enough knowledge about the database tables and relationships concerning polls
- Do a report (with the help of my mentor) clearly stating the project goals, deliverables and schedule, that should serve as an evaluating guide and a progress tracker. 

I can't even wait to start (for now, lots of studying and working for faculty projects...)

Comments

[jeshyr]

Hey, a belated congratulations on your acceptance!

I have a poll suggestion/request/thought and I wanted to let you know about it because you're doing the polls this summer - I know you won't have started yet and you're probably still doing finals and stuff, but I just wanted to toss this into your brain!

(Also, fu is staying at my place this week and told me who was doing polls so I knew where to look :))

Anyway I have low vision so I read web pages at about 400-500% zoom. That means all the text, graphics, etc are 4-5 times larger than normal, or possibly even bigger if I'm having a "bad eye day". The way my browser (Firefox) works is to re-wrap text mostly so it fits into the screen's width and I can read it without scrolling sideways, but when I'm viewing poll results the red bars showing the relative size of each result don't get shrunk to fit the screen so I end up seeing just the questions and a long red bar disappearing off to the right... not very useful!

My request is that there be an option to view poll results in a text-only way so I could see the numbers and percentages beside the question (perhaps with some sensible additions of text indicating most/least checked results?). At the moment the actual text part of the result generally ends up off the right of my screen at the end of the red line so I have to sideways scroll to see it at all.

I'd be happy to provide screen shots if they'd be helpful to you - I'm not sure how much sense this will make to somebody who's not me.

Anyway, thanks for reading and I hope your summer is fantastic!

[jportela]

A text-only representation of data sounds like a great idea to me! This should go first through dw_suggestions, so the community can give their thoughts on it, you can make a suggestion here: http://www.dreamwidth.org/site/suggest

I'll be happy to help fulfilling this feature, and any more questions, just ask :)