[SoC] Interested in applying for GSOC - MapWindow

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Hi!

My name is Lucas, i'm a brazilian computer science student at UFCG
(Universidade Federal de Campina Grande) and i'm looking forward to
participate in GSOC.
I have skills in Java and Python, plus some superficial knowledge of C++ and
Qt (it's been a while), but it's been almost a year since i got this trainee
job where i got used to work with .NET and C# (plus ASP.NET), and that
became my expertise (and favorite language).
I have never worked with open source projects before, altough i'm very
familiar with the idea (my graduation course is all about open-source
development, they keep pushing us towards it), and very interested in
getting involved!

I was glad to find .NET projects in the accepted organizations list, and
even more glad when i found about OSGeo.
I took the GIS course last year at the university, learned the concepts,
worked on a small project and got really interested in the subject.

So i'm thinking  on applying for MapWindow. I have not figured any new ideas
yet but i did like some of the ones on the ideas page.

- I like the "New MapWinGeoProc library" idea, i'm not familiar with
NTS/GEOS libraries, it would be nice to learn and everything is in C#, it's
the one which suits me best.
- Another one woulde be the "New GUI for for MapWindow", but i don't know
much about VB.NET (but i do know MVC and design patterns). It would be
really good to learn (and they say it's not hard at all for C# programmers).
- The "Zap-a-bug" one also seems nice, it makes possible to set various
small goals (bugs) that builds up to a greater goal, and i do know how awful
these 'forgotten' bugs can be in a software project. My worry about that
idea is that it's seems like a low-priority one (like it's unusual that it
gets a slot), isn't it?

Am i right?
I would appreciate to hear your toughts about my decision and application as
a whole.

Thanks in advance, looking forward to work this summer :)


Lucas
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