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

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Dipankar Patro <dipankar at seeta.in> wrote:
> Walter Sir,
> Thank You very much for accepting to mentor our team on the proposed areas.
> But there seems to be some problem regarding participation of a team in the
> Program. It looks like, they only allow individuals to participate. So, we
> are planning to split the project into two parts:
> 1. Web browser development.
> 2. Localization and Porting of Sugar 0.90 to Ubuntu.

Why not split these into two projects?

-walter

> We are looking for a third project, and would be great to suggest one
> It would be very helpful if we could have a discussion on this on irc, as
> soon as possible suiting Indian time.
> Thanking You.
> Sincerely,
> Dipankar
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>
>



-- 
Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
http://www.sugarlabs.org