[Sugar-devel] Requesting mentor ship for Project related to Sugar

[Walter Bender]

It was a disappointment that we didn't get direct sponsorship for GSoC
this year, but working with OSPO may be just the ticket!!  Happy to be
the mentor on these projects.

Note that you should mention that there is a on-going webkit effort
for Ubuntu but that Chromium would give us more flexibility and a
broader offering.

regards.

-walter

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Dipankar Patro <dipankar at seeta.in> wrote:
> Hello Walter Sir,
> I Dipankar Patro, Research Engineer, SEETA, would like to represent my team
> from SEETA, comprising of Neeraj Gupta, Ishan Bansal, Mukul Gupta with the
> following proposal of a project. The team members worked in the summer of
> 2010 for Ubuntu Sugar Remix, (with Manusheel Gupta, SEETA) and also made
> some successful patch submissions which eventually got pushed in the main
> repository. The reports regarding our work are published
> here: http://opensource.seeta.in/task_reports
> We all want to apply for the GSOC under GOOGLE
> OSPO: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/ospo
> We would like to work on the following areas related to Sugar, and would
> highly appreciate if you could mentor us. We will be presenting the same
> areas as below for GSOC.
>
> The following are proposed areas:
>
> 1. Developing a faster, secure and customizable browser activity for Ubuntu
> Sugar Remix.
> Since Ubuntu Sugar Remix does not have a stable 'Browse' activity due to the
> hulahop package problem, we aim to develop a new browser activity
> implementing Google Chrominum base and functionality making the browser
> faster, secure and customizable. The same activity can be used for XO where
> the performance is crucial given the hardware specifications it has.
> 2. Successful porting of Sugar 0.90 on Ubuntu along with upgrading the
> existing activities.
> Sugar is rapidly developing and we feel the need to be same with the Ubuntu
> Sugar Remix. Porting Sugar 0.90 to USR will be the first step in providing
> the latest compatible version of Sugar to Ubuntu Users.
> 3. Localisation in India
> If Sugar needs to be spread across in India, we feel the need of
> incorporating regional languages into it. This would include activities and
> applications available in regional languages. A new reason why Sugar can be
> used in Classrooms, even in Sub-Urban areas.
>
> For the above, we have planned the following structure of working and road
> map:
>
> All members have experience of working on the Sugar back-end (where the code
> needs to be written or modified).
> I have some knowledge of networking, and would like continue to work on the
> same field for Sugar.
> Mukul and Ishan are experienced with working on activities. Ishan specially
> worked with Gtk end of activities, where as Mukul worked on the coding
> portion. As Neeraj has experience in the field of localization and has also
> worked on it, he will be the one specially working on the localization.
> For road map please visit this page: http://opensource.seeta.in/roadmap
> As you have incomparable experience in activity development on Sugar, we are
> seeking for your expert guidance on the whole browser activity development,
> which will definitely lead us to an outstanding achievement, and also help
> Sugar grow and spread more rapidly.
> Thank You for taking out time for us.
> Regards,
> Dipankar Patro,
> dipankar at seeta.in
> Neeraj Gupta,
> neeraj at seeta.in
> Ishan Bansal,
> ishan at seeta.in
> Mukul Gupta,
> mukul at seeta.in



-- 
Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
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