[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [GSOC ] Apply for Project Sharing Website

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Rahul Gaur <rahul.nbg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone !
>
> By way of introduction I am Rahul Gaur Third Year Computer Science
> undergraduate from Delhi/NCR,India. I have been coding in Python since my
> first year and I have been Part of GSOC 2011 under GNU Project, following
> that I have some amount of experience with Embedded Linux and C programming.
> I am looking for some web development projects to work on during the
> summer so I could learn more about web services.
>
> I have started web development with Django somewhere around six months
> back and I am familiar with pretty much of the basics.You may check my
> GitHub link below to see some of my work , they are mostly just proof of
> concepts or toy projects.
>
> I have been working on couple of  Web Projects for my College :
>
> [1] . Resultworks - Online WebApp that facilitates the management of
> the Student Grades and rendering them when queried.(written in
> django/python)
> [2] .Internal social networking platform for the college - This Project is
> also in python, here I am building a platform which will provide the
> students with the ability to share and highlight the college problems and
> get attention from the management.It has basic Social Networking features
> like user follower/friendship messages and etcs .(it's not open source yet
> ) (Django/python/pinax)
> [3] . Frontend web development with HMTL5/CSS3/JavaScript - College
> Cultural Society  event site.
>
> I have recently started learning JavaScript , but I am willing to put in
> more effort on my learning emphasis (as JS is part of College Curriculum )
> and I hope to be in a better state by the summer.So being able to work on
> some real project would be really helpful for me.
>
> Firstly I would like to state that I love helping kids get started with
> programing and FOSS technologies and here at SugarLab being able to be a
> part of team that provides new and interesting learning opportunity for
> kids would be  a great amount of deal for me .. :)
>
> That being said , I found the Following project on the ideas page
> very beneficial for my personal skills as a student/web dev and also of
> significant importance to the Sugar Labs community.
>  Project sharing website
>
>    - Ability to engage and connect with friends and classmates using
>    various Social Networking sites/techniques.
>    - Ability to post projects from various Sugar Activities (ex: Turtle
>    Blocks, Etoys, Memorize, Physics, etc.)
>    - Separate landing pages for different audiences (kids, teachers,
>    parents, etc.)
>    - Section to share kid created art from projects
>    - Ability for users to create galleries (of their own projects,
>    favorite projects, subject specific topics, etc.)
>    - Ability to have “private classroom spaces”
>    - Tools to support community management of the site
>    - Multi-language support
>
>
Don't get too complicated. Maybe take some inspiration of the the Scratch
site--they have a nice balance of functionality and simplicity.

>
> I would discuss more about this project , specifically on the choices of
> Frameworks , design and layout etc.Some of the features seems like they are
> going to offer new learning curve and seems challenging : ) .
>
> I am pretty much comfortable with python/django and if it's okay
> with community , I could proceed with that or if there is better
> alternative to do things in a more efficient way we could discuss more
> about that.
>

Nothing wrong with Python :)

>
> I also plan to use Facebook and Twitter API's for user engagement on the
> site , plus I plan to implement REST-APIs to this service so it would be
> easier to integrate with existing codebase of SugarLabs and giving users
> ability to share projects.
>

Be nice to investigate some FOSS social networking tools as well.

>
>
> I have attached two mockup for the layout and design of the site, please
> do provide your views.
> I have made these with Django + bootstrap + jinja2 , I will push to codes
> to my GitHub account in couple of hours.
>
>
>  Looking forward  to your reply !
>
> Kind Regards,
> Rahul
>
>
> Links ~ :
>
> [1] : https://github.com/aregee/resultworks/
>
> [3] : https://events-scrietscs.rhcloud.com/
>
>  <https://github.com/aregee/resultworks/>--
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *Rahul Gaur*
> *irc : iamaregee2*
> *web: *http://www.rahulgaur.info*
> *
> *blogs : *aregee.wordpress.com , <http://sanencynicalwriter.wordpress.com/>
> http://sanencynicalwriter.wordpress.com/
> *fb:* http://facebook.com/iamaregee
> *github: *https://github.com/aregee
>
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Walter Bender
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