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

[Rahul Gaur]

Hello ,

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Rahul Gaur <rahul.nbg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hello everyone !
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> I have been working on couple of  Web Projects for my College :
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>> [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.
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>> 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 .. :)
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>> 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
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>>    - 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
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> Don't get too complicated. Maybe take some inspiration of the the Scratch
> site--they have a nice balance of functionality and simplicity.
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>> 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 : ) .
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>> 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.
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> Nothing wrong with Python :)
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>> 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.
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> Be nice to investigate some FOSS social networking tools as well.
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I have some amount of experience with pinax project , I plan to use some
components from the pinax project such as authentication and user profiles
app , notification app but initially i planned to  build all these
components from the scratch but given the time constraints I am thinking
using existing tools like these would help in rapid development of the site.



Meanwhile I have also submitted my application on melange ,it's a draft
version so I would be glad if someone could review it and provide me with
some guidance on how to improve my application.

Please do point out if I am missing some critical information.I know there
are couple of things I have left out like I haven't yet set up the
development environment I plan to do that before the application deadline
 as I have exhausted this months bandwidth.I will probably do this by 1st
of may.

link : http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User_talk:Rahul_Gaur

I will move this page to */go/Summer_of_code/application_rahul_gaur , once
I have updated the final application .

Thanks !

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