Student Application

[Dasha Che]

Hello, my name is Dasha. I would like to apply to be a participant in your
group for the Google Summer of Code. Below I have written out some of the
information that you were asking for and I would be very grateful if you
took the time to read over and consider it.

General Info

Name: Daria (Dasha) Chekhovskaya

Languages: Fully fluent in both Russian and English

Time Zone: Central Time Zone

ReactOS website account name:  N/A

IRC nickname on Freenode: Dashka

Time Commitment

I have two main things that I have set in stone for this coming summer. I
have to take a drivers ed course, because learning how drive is a useful
skill as we all know, but the course is only two weeks long either in the
mornings or in the afternoons, so it shouldn’t really get in the way much.
The second is boxing. I take boxing and kickboxing lessons and also help
out with some of the kids classes. It’s generally Monday to Friday for a
couple hours in the evening. Most of the time that I would be working on
the project on would probably be in the morning, evening, and into the late
evenings.

Proposed Projects

-Folder Treeview in Explorer
https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Folder_TreeVi…

-Audio Mixer

https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Audio_Mixer

-NTFS Driver Improvement

https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#NTFS_driver_i…

One of the problems is that I don’t have a portfolio. I do have some
precious experience in working in C++ and a couple other programming
languages. I am by no means a professional but I’m always ready to listen
and learn. I pick things up very quickly, so as long as I’m given pretty
straight forward directions as to what needs to be done I, personally, have
no doubts I’ll be able to figure out what to do.

Best Regards,

Dasha Chekhovskaya

[Aleksey Bragin]

Hello Dasha,
thanks for applying!

Could you be a little more specific regarding what C++ experience you 
have, and what made you choose NTFS Driver Development as one of the 
proposed projects? Do you have any background in filesystems drivers 
development?

Anything counts, don't be shy! ;-)

Regards,
Aleksey Bragin

On 12.03.2016 7:21, Dasha Che wrote:
>  
>  Hello, my name is Dasha. I would like to apply to be a participant in 
>  your group for the Google Summer of Code. Below I have written out 
>  some of the information that you were asking for and I would be very 
>  grateful if you took the time to read over and consider it.
>
>
>  General Info
>
>  Name: Daria (Dasha) Chekhovskaya
>
>  Languages: Fully fluent in both Russian and English
>
>  Time Zone: Central Time Zone
>
>  ReactOS website account name:  N/A
>
>  IRC nickname on Freenode: Dashka
>
>  Time Commitment
>
>  I have two main things that I have set in stone for this coming 
>  summer. I have to take a drivers ed course, because learning how drive 
>  is a useful skill as we all know, but the course is only two weeks 
>  long either in the mornings or in the afternoons, so it shouldn’t 
>  really get in the way much. The second is boxing. I take boxing and 
>  kickboxing lessons and also help out with some of the kids classes. 
>  It’s generally Monday to Friday for a couple hours in the evening. 
>  Most of the time that I would be working on the project on would 
>  probably be in the morning, evening, and into the late evenings.
>
>
>  Proposed Projects
>
>  -Folder Treeview in Explorer 
>
> https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Folder_TreeVi…
>
>  -Audio Mixer
>
>  https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Audio_Mixer
>
>  -NTFS Driver Improvement
>
>  https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#NTFS_driver_i…
>
>
>  One of the problems is that I don’t have a portfolio. I do have some 
>  precious experience in working in C++ and a couple other programming 
>  languages. I am by no means a professional but I’m always ready to 
>  listen and learn. I pick things up very quickly, so as long as I’m 
>  given pretty straight forward directions as to what needs to be done 
>  I, personally, have no doubts I’ll be able to figure out what to do.
>
>
>  Best Regards,
>
>  Dasha Chekhovskaya
>

[Sylvain Deverre]

Hello,
I just wanted to say I'm already working on explorer treeview (before
it was listed as GSoC project btw), and explorer treeview itself is
almost finished (i.e. runs almost perfectly on Windows, but it shows
lots of shell notification problems on ReactOS), explorer bars
implementation still need more love though. Anyways, having a working
search band would be nice :) (and filling browseui gaps to properly
have Windows search band working on our explorer too :))
You can follow my progress on Github here: https://github.com/sdever/re
actos/commits/shell-work
Regards,
Le samedi 12 mars 2016 à 11:07 +0300, Aleksey Bragin a écrit :
>   Hello Dasha,
>  thanks for applying!
>  
>  Could you be a little more specific regarding what C++ experience you
>  have, and what made you choose NTFS Driver Development as one of the
>  proposed projects? Do you have any background in filesystems drivers
>  development?
>  
>  Anything counts, don't be shy! ;-)
>  
>  Regards,
>  Aleksey Bragin
>  
>  On 12.03.2016 7:21, Dasha Che wrote:
> >         Hello, my name is Dasha. I would like to
> > apply to be a
> >  participant in your group for the Google Summer of Code. Below I
> >  have written out some of the information that you were asking for
> >  and I would be very grateful if you took the time to read over and
> >  consider it.
> >  
> >  General Info
> >  	Name: Daria (Dasha) Chekhovskaya
> >  	Languages: Fully fluent in both Russian and English
> >  	Time Zone: Central Time Zone
> >  	ReactOS website account name:  N/A
> >  	IRC nickname on Freenode: Dashka
> >  Time Commitment
> >  I have two main things that I have set in stone for this coming
> >  summer. I have to take a drivers ed course, because learning how
> >  drive is a useful skill as we all know, but the course is only two
> >  weeks long either in the mornings or in the afternoons, so it
> >  shouldn’t really get in the way much. The second is boxing. I take
> >  boxing and kickboxing lessons and also help out with some of the
> >  kids classes. It’s generally Monday to Friday for a couple hours in
> >  the evening. Most of the time that I would be working on the
> >  project on would probably be in the morning, evening, and into the
> >  late evenings.
> >  
> >  Proposed Projects
> >  	-Folder Treeview in Explorer https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Googl
> >  e_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Folder_TreeView_in_Explorer
> >  	-Audio Mixer
> >  https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Audio
> >  _Mixer
> >  	
> >  	-NTFS Driver Improvement
> >  https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#NTFS_
> >  driver_improvements
> >  
> >  	One of the problems is that I don’t have a portfolio. I do have
> >  some precious experience in working in C++ and a couple other
> >  programming languages. I am by no means a professional but I’m
> >  always ready to listen and learn. I pick things up very quickly, so
> >  as long as I’m given pretty straight forward directions as to what
> >  needs to be done I, personally, have no doubts I’ll be able to
> >  figure out what to do. 
> >  
> >  Best Regards,
> >  	Dasha Chekhovskaya 
>   
>  _______________________________________________
>  Ros-dev mailing list
>  Ros-dev(a)reactos.org
>  http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

[Dasha Che]

Hello, me again. First of all, thank you for the reply, I appreciate it
very much. So, I am by no means a pro if we’re being honest. I have taken a
couple online C++ programming courses which involved working on small
individual projects. They weren’t anything too crazy, just multiple small
problem sets, but I’d like to think that I understood most of what I was
doing. The reason I’m really interested in the project that you’re working
on is because I think it would be a really interesting experience getting
to work on a project with other people, instead of picking away at
something solo. The reason I picked the NTDS Driver Development as one of
the proposed projects was because, firstly, I want to learn how to write
code for a driver and do it properly so that it worked how it was supposed
to. Secondly, it would be really cool to help expand and add-on to code
that somebody else has written. It’s like being given a pile of legos and
told to create something. Learning how to read, understand, and develop
something from things that are already there. I’ve never actually done any
file system driver development, but like I said earlier, I do pick up
things really quickly and I’m more than willing to read up on it.

Best Regards,
Dasha Chekhovskaya

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 2:07 AM, Aleksey Bragin <aleksey(a)reactos.org> wrote:

>   Hello Dasha,
>  thanks for applying!
>
>  Could you be a little more specific regarding what C++ experience you
>  have, and what made you choose NTFS Driver Development as one of the
>  proposed projects? Do you have any background in filesystems drivers
>  development?
>
>  Anything counts, don't be shy! ;-)
>
>  Regards,
>  Aleksey Bragin
>
>
>  On 12.03.2016 7:21, Dasha Che wrote:
>
>  Hello, my name is Dasha. I would like to apply to be a participant in your
>  group for the Google Summer of Code. Below I have written out some of the
>  information that you were asking for and I would be very grateful if you
>  took the time to read over and consider it.
>
>  General Info
>
>  Name: Daria (Dasha) Chekhovskaya
>
>  Languages: Fully fluent in both Russian and English
>
>  Time Zone: Central Time Zone
>
>  ReactOS website account name:  N/A
>
>  IRC nickname on Freenode: Dashka
>
>  Time Commitment
>
>  I have two main things that I have set in stone for this coming summer. I
>  have to take a drivers ed course, because learning how drive is a useful
>  skill as we all know, but the course is only two weeks long either in the
>  mornings or in the afternoons, so it shouldn’t really get in the way much.
>  The second is boxing. I take boxing and kickboxing lessons and also help
>  out with some of the kids classes. It’s generally Monday to Friday for a
>  couple hours in the evening. Most of the time that I would be working on
>  the project on would probably be in the morning, evening, and into the late
>  evenings.
>
>  Proposed Projects
>
>  -Folder Treeview in Explorer
>
> <https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Folder_TreeView_in_Explorer>
>
> https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Folder_TreeVi…
>
>  -Audio Mixer
>
>  <https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Audio_Mixer>
>  https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Audio_Mixer
>
>  -NTFS Driver Improvement
>
>
>
> <https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#NTFS_driver_improvements>
>  https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#NTFS_driver_i…
>
>  One of the problems is that I don’t have a portfolio. I do have some
>  precious experience in working in C++ and a couple other programming
>  languages. I am by no means a professional but I’m always ready to listen
>  and learn. I pick things up very quickly, so as long as I’m given pretty
>  straight forward directions as to what needs to be done I, personally, have
>  no doubts I’ll be able to figure out what to do.
>
>  Best Regards,
>
>  Dasha Chekhovskaya
>
>
>
>  _______________________________________________
>  Ros-dev mailing list
>  Ros-dev(a)reactos.org
>  http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
>

[Aleksey Bragin]

Dasha,
You possess one very good skill: English language. It's a key to 
everything else :-)

Seriously, it would be good if you could pick some other task than the 
NTFS driver, as it's too hard for a start. I am sure there are plenty of 
tasks involving some thorough development, but which could be mastered 
over time.

Regards,
Aleksey Bragin

On 12.03.2016 20:07, Dasha Che wrote:
>  
>  Hello, me again. First of all, thank you for the reply, I appreciate 
>  it very much. So, I am by no means a pro if we’re being honest. I have 
>  taken a couple online C++ programming courses which involved working 
>  on small individual projects. They weren’t anything too crazy, just 
>  multiple small problem sets, but I’d like to think that I understood 
>  most of what I was doing. The reason I’m really interested in the 
>  project that you’re working on is because I think it would be a really 
>  interesting experience getting to work on a project with other people, 
>  instead of picking away at something solo. The reason I picked the 
>  NTDS Driver Development as one of the proposed projects was because, 
>  firstly, I want to learn how to write code for a driver and do it 
>  properly so that it worked how it was supposed to. Secondly, it would 
>  be really cool to help expand and add-on to code that somebody else 
>  has written. It’s like being given a pile of legos and told to create 
>  something. Learning how to read, understand, and develop something 
>  from things that are already there. I’ve never actually done any file 
>  system driver development, but like I said earlier, I do pick up 
>  things really quickly and I’m more than willing to read up on it.
>
>
>  Best Regards,
>
>  Dasha Chekhovskaya
>
>  On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 2:07 AM, Aleksey Bragin <aleksey(a)reactos.org 
>  <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>      Hello Dasha,
>      thanks for applying!
>
>      Could you be a little more specific regarding what C++ experience
>      you have, and what made you choose NTFS Driver Development as one
>      of the proposed projects? Do you have any background in
>      filesystems drivers development?
>
>      Anything counts, don't be shy! ;-)
>
>      Regards,
>      Aleksey Bragin
>
>
>      On 12.03.2016 7:21, Dasha Che wrote:
> >  
> >      Hello, my name is Dasha. I would like to apply to be a
> >      participant in your group for the Google Summer of Code. Below I
> >      have written out some of the information that you were asking for
> >      and I would be very grateful if you took the time to read over
> >      and consider it.
> >
> >
> >      General Info
> >
> >      Name: Daria (Dasha) Chekhovskaya
> >
> >      Languages: Fully fluent in both Russian and English
> >
> >      Time Zone: Central Time Zone
> >
> >      ReactOS website account name:  N/A
> >
> >      IRC nickname on Freenode: Dashka
> >
> >      Time Commitment
> >
> >      I have two main things that I have set in stone for this coming
> >      summer. I have to take a drivers ed course, because learning how
> >      drive is a useful skill as we all know, but the course is only
> >      two weeks long either in the mornings or in the afternoons, so it
> >      shouldn’t really get in the way much. The second is boxing. I
> >      take boxing and kickboxing lessons and also help out with some of
> >      the kids classes. It’s generally Monday to Friday for a couple
> >      hours in the evening. Most of the time that I would be working on
> >      the project on would probably be in the morning, evening, and
> >      into the late evenings.
> >
> >
> >      Proposed Projects
> >
> >      -Folder Treeview in Explorer
> >     
> > <https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Folder_TreeView_in_Explorer>https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Folder_TreeView_in_Explorer
> >
> >      -Audio Mixer
> >
> >     
> > <https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Audio_Mixer>https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Audio_Mixer
> >
> >      -NTFS Driver Improvement
> >
> >     
> > <https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#NTFS_driver_improvements>https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#NTFS_driver_improvements
> >
> >
> >      One of the problems is that I don’t have a portfolio. I do have
> >      some precious experience in working in C++ and a couple other
> >      programming languages. I am by no means a professional but I’m
> >      always ready to listen and learn. I pick things up very quickly,
> >      so as long as I’m given pretty straight forward directions as to
> >      what needs to be done I, personally, have no doubts I’ll be able
> >      to figure out what to do.
> >
> >
> >      Best Regards,
> >
> >      Dasha Chekhovskaya
> >  
>

[Dasha Che]

I completely understand where you’re coming from. I really don’t have a lot
of experience working with driver development, but at the same time, gotta
get that experience from somewhere, right? The other two that I was quite
possibly interested in doing were the folder treeview and sound mixer. If
there’s any others that you would suggest I would be more than glad to
check them out :)


Best Regards,

Dasha Chekhovskaya


On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Aleksey Bragin <aleksey(a)reactos.org>
wrote:

>   Dasha,
>  You possess one very good skill: English language. It's a key to
>  everything else :-)
>
>  Seriously, it would be good if you could pick some other task than the
>  NTFS driver, as it's too hard for a start. I am sure there are plenty of
>  tasks involving some thorough development, but which could be mastered over
>  time.
>
>  Regards,
>  Aleksey Bragin
>
>  On 12.03.2016 20:07, Dasha Che wrote:
>
>  Hello, me again. First of all, thank you for the reply, I appreciate it
>  very much. So, I am by no means a pro if we’re being honest. I have taken a
>  couple online C++ programming courses which involved working on small
>  individual projects. They weren’t anything too crazy, just multiple small
>  problem sets, but I’d like to think that I understood most of what I was
>  doing. The reason I’m really interested in the project that you’re working
>  on is because I think it would be a really interesting experience getting
>  to work on a project with other people, instead of picking away at
>  something solo. The reason I picked the NTDS Driver Development as one of
>  the proposed projects was because, firstly, I want to learn how to write
>  code for a driver and do it properly so that it worked h ow it was supposed
>  to. Secondly, it would be really cool to help expand and add-on to code
>  that somebody else has written. It’s like being given a pile of legos and
>  told to create something. Learning how to read, understand, and develop
>  something from things that are already there. I’ve never actually done any
>  file system driver development, but like I said earlier, I do pick up
>  things really quickly and I’m more than willing to read up on it.
>
>  Best Regards,
>  Dasha Chekhovskaya
>
>  On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 2:07 AM, Aleksey Bragin <aleksey(a)reactos.org>
>  wrote:
>
> >   Hello Dasha,
> >  thanks for applying!
> >
> >  Could you be a little more specific regarding what C++ experience you
> >  have, and what made you choose NTFS Driver Development as one of the
> >  proposed projects? Do you have any background in filesystems drivers
> >  development?
> >
> >  Anything counts, don't be shy! ;-)
> >
> >  Regards,
> >  Aleksey Bragin
> >
> >
> >  On 12.03.2016 7:21, Dasha Che wrote:
> >
> >  Hello, my name is Dasha. I would like to apply to be a participant in
> >  your group for the Google Summer of Code. Below I have written out some of
> >  the information that you were asking for and I would be very grateful if
> >  you took the time to read over and consider it.
> >
> >  General Info
> >
> >  Name: Daria (Dasha) Chekhovskaya
> >
> >  Languages: Fully fluent in both Russian and English
> >
> >  Time Zone: Central Time Zone
> >
> >  ReactOS website account name:  N/A
> >
> >  IRC nickname on Freenode: Dashka
> >
> >  Time Commitment
> >
> >  I have two main things that I have set in stone for this coming summer. I
> >  have to take a drivers ed course, because learning how drive is a useful
> >  skill as we all know, but the course is only two weeks long either in the
> >  mornings or in the afternoons, so it shouldn’t really get in the way much.
> >  The second is boxing. I take boxing and kickboxing lessons and also help
> >  out with some of the kids classes. It’s generally Monday to Friday for a
> >  couple hours in the evening. Most of the time that I would be working on
> >  the project on would probably be in the morning, evening, and into the late
> >  evenings.
> >
> >  Proposed Projects
> >
> >  -Folder Treeview in Explorer
> >
> > <https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Folder_TreeView_in_Explorer>
> >
> > <https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Folder_TreeView_in_Explorer>
> >
> > https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Folder_TreeVi…
> >
> >  -Audio Mixer
> >
> >
> >  <https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Audio_Mixer>
> >  <https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Audio_Mixer>
> >  https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#Audio_Mixer
> >
> >  -NTFS Driver Improvement
> >
> >
> >
> > <https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#NTFS_driver_improvements>
> >
> > <https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#NTFS_driver_improvements>
> >  https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas#NTFS_driver_i…
> >
> >  One of the problems is that I don’t have a portfolio. I do have some
> >  precious experience in working in C++ and a couple other programming
> >  languages. I am by no means a professional but I’m always ready to listen
> >  and learn. I pick things up very quickly, so as long as I’m given pretty
> >  straight forward directions as to what needs to be done I, personally, have
> >  no doubts I’ll be able to figure out what to do.
> >
> >  Best Regards,
> >
> >  Dasha Chekhovskaya
> >
> >
> >  
>  _______________________________________________
>  Ros-dev mailing list
>  Ros-dev(a)reactos.org
>  http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
>