<div dir="ltr">Hello ,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Rahul Gaur <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rahul.nbg@gmail.com" target="_blank">rahul.nbg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hello everyone !</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br>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.</div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I am looking for some web development projects to work on during the summer so I could learn more about web services.</font><br><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br>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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I have been working on couple of Web Projects for my College :</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font><br>
<font face="arial, sans-serif">[1] . Resultworks - Online WebApp that facilitates the management of the Student Grades and rendering them when queried.(written in django/python)</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
[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)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">[3] . Frontend web development with HMTL5/CSS3/JavaScript - College Cultural Society event site.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.<br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">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 .. :) <br>
</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">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.</font></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Ability to engage and connect with friends and classmates using various Social Networking sites/techniques.</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Ability to post projects from various Sugar Activities (ex: Turtle Blocks, Etoys, Memorize, Physics, etc.)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Separate landing pages for different audiences (kids, teachers, parents, etc.)</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Section to share kid created art from projects</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">
Ability for users to create galleries (of their own projects, favorite projects, subject specific topics, etc.)</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Ability to have “private classroom spaces”</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">
Tools to support community management of the site</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Multi-language support</li></ul></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Don't get too complicated. Maybe take some inspiration of the the Scratch site--they have a nice balance of functionality and simplicity. <br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>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 : ) . </font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>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.<br>
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</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">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.<br>
</font></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Be nice to investigate some FOSS social networking tools as well. <br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>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.<br>
<br><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>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.<br>
<br>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.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>link : <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User_talk:Rahul_Gaur">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User_talk:Rahul_Gaur</a> </div><div style><br></div><div style>I will move this page to */go/Summer_of_code/application_rahul_gaur , once I have updated the final application .<br>
</div><div><br></div><div style>Thanks !</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><div><b>Rahul Gaur</b></div>
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