[bt-devel] Any BibleTime 2 volunteers?

[Jeremy Erickson]

Joachim,

On Saturday 28 April 2007 11:06:27 am Joachim Ansorg wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
> this sounds great!
>
> > 	I just found out today that I can work on developing BibleTime 2 during
> > the next fall semester and receive 3 hours of elective credit towards my
> > computer science degree.
>
> When is your fall semester?
> I'm not used to the US semesters :)

The semester will be from August 28, 2007 until December 7, 2007.

> > This is counted as COS370, "Software Engineering
> > Project," by Taylor University (my school).  They will be assigning a
> > faculty advisor who may want to be in contact with you about my
> > performance.
>
> That's fine for me. I guess that Martin or me would be contact person.
>
> > I believe I would be working on the project something on the
> > order of 12 hours a week, although I don't have the details yet.  I have
> > experience with C++ and Qt (including Qt 4) from working on
> > BibleMemorizer, so I can certainly help with the coding.  It would
> > probably also be good for me to work on design if we still have quite a
> > bit to do by then.
>
> I guess that I can give you more information as soon as I know the dates of
> your semester.
> At the moment we're still in planning stage and we're quite slow at the
> moment, so there's quite a lot to do atm.
> But the actual todos depend on the time when you're ready to begin.
>
> > 	Let me know what I can do to help.  I look forward to using this
> > opportunity to contribute!
>
> What would you especially like to do?

I'm willing to work on whatever is needed.  My current experience has probably 
better prepared me for the frontend, but working with the backend would be a 
good learning experience.  Just looking at the wiki, mapping our internal 
representation to HTML looks interesting, for instance.

> > 	On a side note, I have BibleTime 1.6.4 packages building right now and
> > should have them posted within a day or two.
>
> Thanks for the packages, that's a wonderful contribution for the project
> and the users!
>
> Joachim
>
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-Jeremy Erickson