Hello, I am Ganesh Gajare from Homi Bhabha Centre for Science education, Mumbai, India. <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Dipankar Patro <<a href="mailto:dipankar@seeta.in">dipankar@seeta.in</a>> 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. </div></blockquote><div>We are working on sugar developement, providing sugar platform in various schools of maharashtra for education. </div><div>Sugar Localization project is one interest of mine. I am contributing to Sugar platform translation in Marathi. I would like to be a part of it. Also, there are some of students who want to support for localization as a Voluntary work. Can we discuss about this. Can we set a modules for them and tell them to submit their tranlations to sugarlabs. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im"> </div>Why not split these into two projects? -walter <div><div></div><div class="h5"> > 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 <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> > 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 <<a href="mailto:dipankar@seeta.in">dipankar@seeta.in</a>> 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: <a href="http://opensource.seeta.in/task_reports" target="_blank">http://opensource.seeta.in/task_reports</a> >> > We all want to apply for the GSOC under GOOGLE >> > OSPO: <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/ospo" target="_blank">http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/ospo</a> >> > 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: <a href="http://opensource.seeta.in/roadmap" target="_blank">http://opensource.seeta.in/roadmap</a> >> > 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, >> > <a href="mailto:dipankar@seeta.in">dipankar@seeta.in</a> >> > Neeraj Gupta, >> > <a href="mailto:neeraj@seeta.in">neeraj@seeta.in</a> >> > Ishan Bansal, >> > <a href="mailto:ishan@seeta.in">ishan@seeta.in</a> >> > Mukul Gupta, >> > <a href="mailto:mukul@seeta.in">mukul@seeta.in</a> >> >> >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> > > I would like to hear, ideas and suggestion from all of you. </div></div></blockquote><div>Thanks. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div class="h5"> </div></div>-- <div class="im">Walter Bender Sugar Labs <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> </div><div><div></div><div class="h5">_______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Ganesh (Dragger) Be a FOSSERS, use GNU/Linux