Kartik, I think we can definitely find a useful way for you to contribute and fulfill your internship requirements. You should write more about what kind of project would interest you; the suggestions below focus more on communications, because that's what I know as your expertise, but if you are interested in UI, security, graphics, or something else, there are probably other <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/ProjectIdeas">ideas</a> for you. I'm not really the person to talk to about communications. I was talking with bemasc (benjamin schwartz, copied on this email) and we had two ideas: <ul><li>Some way of completing your original project idea without involving Collabora/Telepathy too much. For instance, Bemasc mentioned Webdav, but said "The problem is that it has no (standardized or otherwise) connection to XMPP, so Collabora isn't much interested in shoving it into Salut in some ad-hoc way.... So it would have to live outside of Salut, but still ask Salut for the IP address associated with a given contact, etc.... Maybe it could get its own Telepathy connection manager, but now this is really getting out of control." In other words, you'd have to have some serious conversations with him to redesign how this would work.</li> <li>One part of the original sugar design that has never been realized is the ability to share in activities without previously installing them on your machine. That would mean that whenever you joined a shared activity, your copy of sugar would automatically download, install, and run a copy of the host's version of the activity. It would require having a way to hash activities; the ability to have more than one version of the same activity simultaneously installed and running; some policy for garbage collecting old installed activity versions; and teaching Sugar to appropriately use the existing file transfer mechanisms in telepathy. I suspect that this project would be more under your own control than your original proposal, and I think that the time is ripe for Sugar to grow this functionality. </li></ul> As to the paperwork for your internship requirements at your school, Walter Bender (also copied on this mail) has said he could probably help you with that. Talk to him. Hope this helps, and good luck! Jameson <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:46 AM, kartik rustagi <<a href="mailto:kashes911@gmail.com">kashes911@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi Jameson, Sorry for the late reply, I was out of station. First of all thanks a lot for showing this gesture towards me, it really meant a lot. It would have been had I got through Gsoc but none the less my passion towards contributing to Sugar and open source in general still remains. Yes resume building was one of the reason for me to apply for Gsoc, but along with that it would have served as an internship that we must do in the coming months of June and July. I will have to talk to college authority whether working for Sugar will do the job or not. In the mean time can you please let me know the projects that have recently started or are yet to start and where I can fit in. -- Regards Kartik Rustagi </blockquote></div>