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Hello, I am a CS student from Turkey. I want to apply for Django's GSoC program this year. I have some ideas but am quite confused regarding what to propose. I want to give some information about myself so someone more experienced can point me in the right direction. I have been working on several Django projects for more than 2 years. I am one of the senior developers who built the largest Django based website in Turkey: http://markafoni.com (http:// www.brandsexclusive.com.au/a/aboutus/ for Australian version) . It is a clone of http://vente-privee.com, a private online shopping site. Markafoni ships more than 1000 items per day and the traffic is enormous. The system runs on several application servers, 2 db servers and a gateway. There are also several servers for backup. I have experience with almost every aspect of Django: scaling problems, writing complex widgets and forms, middlewares, context processors, etc. Because of my course load, I had to quit Markafoni last year, since it was getting very demanding for me. Right now, I am working part- time at my university as a member of the web-team. I managed to convince my co-workers to convert all the websites within the university to be built with Django and they are happier than ever. This year I have taken two courses that I like the best in my entire college life: SICP and PLAI. These courses teach and help us analyze structure of programming languages and paradigms, compilers, interpreters, etc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLAI). PLAI is, basically, a course where we keep improving a very basic interpreter that we write at the begging of the semester. I was the top of class in SICP and PLAI is still ongoing at the moment. But I think the results will be the same for PLAI. That's why I believe working on template compilation [http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/ SummerOfCode2010#Templatecompilation] idea proposed on the SoC page would be a good choice for me. Should I devote myself to designing a solution for this problem or would you suggest I take a look at others? That's all I can think of right now. I'd appreciate some feedback. Thank you. Fırat -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
