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[Urban Škudnik <urban.skudnik@xxxxxxxxx>]

After seeing Daniel's email I noticed that I only sent my reply to the post
to Mike. My bad and my apologize.

Anyway, here it goes:

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Hi folks!

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Michael Terry <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello, everybody!  I realized I never posted here about the Google
> Summer of Code project involving Deja Dup.  David Bensimon and I
> offered to co-mentor.
>
> As part of Ubuntu's GSoC involvement, the idea was presented that
> improvements could be made to Deja Dup, one of Ubuntu's featured
> applications.
>
> Urban Skudnik submitted a proposal, and it was accepted!  Yay!  You
> can see his proposal here:
>
> http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_proposal/comment/google/gsoc2010/neo/t127076490135
>

Hm, I think GSOC webapp requires that users register and even then I don't
remember if I marked my proposal as public or not.

Anyway, most of my proposal is also listed on Ubuntu's GSOC wiki page [0]
where I worked on it. It's not exactly like the one that was later submitted
to Google but its pretty close. If anyone wants to see the exact proposal I
will make a PDF of it and upload it somewhere.


>
> Basically, he's able and willing to work on several different features
> and bugs.  David, Urban, and I have talked a bit about it, and there
> are several suggested tasks.  I believe Urban's deciding which
> specific ones to work on.
>
> Here's the calendar for GSoC:
>
> http://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/google.com/embed?src=gsummerofcode%40gmail.com
>
> Urban, I believe you have a wiki page about the effort?  I couldn't
> find the link anymore.  :-/  Maybe you'd like to give a quick
> introduction of yourself too?
>

Yeah, you couldn't find it because I didn't create it until today ;)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GSoC/2010/UrbanSkudnik/Progress

For now I only listed the three bugs that we discussed last week, but I
still haven't decided which one will be the first to tackle.

As for introduction...

As Mike said, my name is Urban and go by the alias of Neo-- on IRC ;) If
anyone else wants to drop by for chats that we are going to have on
skype/IRC or would like to get a weekly mail report ping me so that we can
sync up (probably an entire mail will also be published on my progress wiki
page). We basically decided that any communication regarding features/bugs
and their implementation will take place on mailing list so that the process
is as transparent as possible and can help with anyone else joining the
project and that Skype chats are going to be for a bit more focus. Privately
I will mainly bug the guys with things that don't belong on a mailing list
:)

In short: You probably won't be missing anything important and will hear
from me a lot on the mailing list :) Hopefully I won't ask too many stupid
questions... ;)

I am currently enrolled into 2nd year of physics at university of Ljubljana
in Slovenia. My previous experiences with programming are mainly with Python
(worked on anything from web programming (django), processing data and
making sexy graphs with that data to building parallel processing software
for video re-coding with flix) so I will be a bit clumsy at start with Vala
- I had already skipped through a nice C# book and will slowly begin to
start working with vala and on the Deja Dup itself.

If anyone has any more question, please don't hesitate to ask :)

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GSoC/2010/UrbanSkudnik