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FoodForceII/Project Deployment

2009-05-08T16:05:23Z

Deepankgupta: Removing all content from page

Activities/Food Force 2

2009-05-08T15:48:30Z

Deepankgupta: /* Resources */

=Foodforce2 developers page=

===Overview===

FoodForce2 is both a classroom tool, and an outside classroom activity. It is a new kind of an educational solution, an “expanded school” which grows well beyond the walls of the classroom. The game play has been designed in a way to educate the child about certain key learning areas. The key learning areas on which the game focuses are: Strategy, Trading, Technology and its use, Crisis Management, and collaboration.

===Resources===

* [http://code.google.com/p/foodforce/ Sources]
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Food_ForceII FoodforceII on OLPC wiki]
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/FoodForceII/Storyboard Foodforce II Storyboard]
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/FoodForceII/Project_Deployment Foodforce II Live School Visit]

[[Category:Activities]]

Educational Toolkit

2009-03-25T02:21:00Z

Deepankgupta:

Educational Toolkit

2009-03-25T01:48:06Z

Deepankgupta: /* Miscellaneous */

File:Deepank developer challenge.png

2009-03-25T01:46:38Z

2009-03-20T17:44:02Z

Deepankgupta:

====About you====

Q.1 : '''What is your name?'''

Ans : Deepank Gupta

Q.2 : '''What is your email address?'''

Ans : deepankgupta [AT] gmail [DOT] com

Q.3 : '''What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?'''

Ans : deepankgupta

Q.4 : '''What is your IRC nickname?'''

Ans : deepank

Q.5 : '''What is your primary language? (We have mentors who speak multiple languages and can match you with one of them if you'd prefer.)'''

Ans : English and Hindi

Q.6 : '''Where are you located, and what hours do you tend to work? (We also try to match mentors by general time zone if possible.)'''

Ams : Located in New Delhi, India, UTC +530.

I am flexible about my work-timings and can match up with a US Timezone too since I usually stay up late at night.

Q.7 : '''Have you participated in an open-source project before? If so, please send us URLs to your profile pages for those projects, or some other demonstration of the work that you have done in open-source. If not, why do you want to work on an open-source project this summer?'''

Ans : Following are the projects I have been associated in :
# Bibliographic Reference Parsing : http://code.google.com/p/bibliographic-reference-parsing/ OR http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2008-plazi/
# Foodforce2 : http://code.google.com/p/foodforce/
# AI Challenge : http://code.google.com/p/ai-challenge/

====About your project====

Q.1 : '''What is the name of your project?'''

Ans : Educational Toolkit

Q.2 : '''Describe your project in 10-20 sentences. What are you making? Who are you making it for, and why do they need it? What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you be using?'''

a) : '''What are you making'''

The educational toolkit is a software to facilitate discussion in classroom with the help of technology. The software will aim at providing teachers and students with a tool to pose problems and then compare and discuss solutions. It can also be used as a formal testing tool for class tests and provide a better gauge of a student's progress to the teacher.

''Features''

# Teacher makes questions.
# Students give answers via collaboration or individually. Students split in groups and go from their individual answers to a collaborative answer
# Teacher can review all answers later
# Teacher gives individual or group feedback

'''TODO''': ''Write the collaboration story here. ''

b) : '''Who are you making it for'''

Primary, Secondary and Higher Secondary Students and Teachers.

c) : '''Why do they need it '''

It aims to act like a tool which does not take over the job of teaching, but promotes natural class environment and will aim to fit in the classroom environment. The software promotes better examination methods and encourages group work which is vital in any learning environment.

d) : '''What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you be using?'''

The software is being developed in Python with emphasis on easy User Interface. The software will use : PyGTK for User Interface; Telepathy and DBus Tubes for connectivity; XML DOM API for xml

Q.3 : '''What is the timeline for development of your project? The Summer of Code work period is 7 weeks long, May 23 - August 10; tell us what you will be working on each week. (As the summer goes on, you and your mentor will adjust your schedule, but it's good to have a plan at the beginning so you have an idea of where you're headed.) Note that you should probably plan to have something "working and 90% done" by the midterm evaluation (July 6-13); the last steps always take longer than you think, and we will consider cancelling projects which are not mostly working by then.'''

Ans : '''TODO''': ''Make a timeline after discussions''

Q.4 : '''Convince us, in 5-15 sentences, that you will be able to successfully complete your project in the timeline you have described. This is usually where people describe their past experiences, credentials, prior projects, schoolwork, and that sort of thing, but be creative. Link to prior work or other resources as relevant.'''

Ans : I can work on the project in the given timeline, since the technology is there and I can give sufficient time over the summers. The work being proposed is not unreachable or require resources which I won't have access to. Thus, I see no reason why I should fail to complete the project.

'''TODO''': ''Try to make above para more convincing.''

I have also got some experience of coding. Particularly:

# I have been a part of GSoC 2008 as a student in Plazi.
# Two internships at Microsoft in the Office Mobile Division. Worked on the build system for Office Mobile and developed and implemented a sync story for exchange mails and tasks.
# Worked on development and project management of Foodforce which is an activity for Sugar, runs on Windows and Linux platforms too.
# Worked on PCard and UnoLipi.
# Developed and organised Linux Challenge and AI Challenge during technical fests. Been a winner at Linux Challenge, Technical Paper Presentation, Open Software Display in various colleges. ACM ICPC Regional contest participant.

====You and the community====

# If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.
# Sugar Labs will be working to set up a small (5-30 unit) Sugar pilot near each student project that is accepted to GSoC so that you can immediately see how your work affects children in a deployment. We will make arrangements to either supply or find all the equipment needed. Do you have any ideas on where you would like your deployment to be, who you would like to be involved, and how we can help you and the community in your area begin it?
# What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?
# How do you propose you will be keeping the community informed of your progress and any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?

====Miscellaneous====
[[Image:New-developer-challenge.png|thumb|right|An example of the kind of screenshot of your first modification to your development environment which you should include in your application. Note that the drop-down menu text has Mel's email address in place of the word "Restart" - your screenshot should contain your email instead.]]
# We want to make sure that you can set up a [[DevelopmentTeam#Development_systems|development environment]] before the summer starts. Please send us a link to a screenshot of your Sugar development environment with the following modification: when you hover over the XO-person icon in the middle of Home view, the drop-down text should have your email in place of "Restart." See the image on the right for an example. It's normal to need assistance with this, so please visit our IRC channel, #sugar on irc.freenode.net, and ask for help.
# What is your t-shirt size? (Yes, we know Google asks for this already; humor us.)
# Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.
# Is there anything else we should have asked you or anything else that we should know that might make us like you or your project more?

<noinclude>[[Category:2009 GSoC applications]]</noinclude>

Educational Toolkit

2009-03-20T17:39:43Z

Deepankgupta:

====About you====

Q.1 : What is your name?

Ans : Deepank Gupta

Q.2 : What is your email address?

Ans : deepankgupta [AT] gmail [DOT] com

Q.3 : What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?

Ans : deepankgupta

Q.4 : What is your IRC nickname?

Ans : deepank

Q.5 : What is your primary language? (We have mentors who speak multiple languages and can match you with one of them if you'd prefer.)

Ans : English and Hindi

Q.6 : Where are you located, and what hours do you tend to work? (We also try to match mentors by general time zone if possible.)

Ams : Located in New Delhi, India, UTC +530.

I am flexible about my work-timings and can match up with a US Timezone too since I usually stay up late at night.

Q.7 : Have you participated in an open-source project before? If so, please send us URLs to your profile pages for those projects, or some other demonstration of the work that you have done in open-source. If not, why do you want to work on an open-source project this summer?

Ans : Following are the projects I have been associated in :
# Bibliographic Reference Parsing : http://code.google.com/p/bibliographic-reference-parsing/ OR http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2008-plazi/
# Foodforce2 : http://code.google.com/p/foodforce/
# AI Challenge : http://code.google.com/p/ai-challenge/

====About your project====

Q.1 : '''What is the name of your project?'''

Ans : Educational Toolkit

Q.2 : '''Describe your project in 10-20 sentences. What are you making? Who are you making it for, and why do they need it? What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you be using?'''

Ans :

a) : '''What are you making'''

The educational toolkit is a software to facilitate discussion in classroom with the help of technology. The software will aim at providing teachers and students with a tool to pose problems and then compare and discuss solutions. It can also be used as a formal testing tool for class tests and provide a better gauge of a student's progress to the teacher.

''''Features''''

# Teacher makes questions.
# Students give answers via collaboration or individually. Students split in groups and go from their individual answers to a collaborative answer
# Teacher can review all answers later
# Teacher gives individual or group feedback

'''TODO''': Write the collaboration story here.

b) : '''Who are you making it for'''

Primary, Secondary and Higher Secondary Students and Teachers.

c) : '''Why do they need it '''

It aims to act like a tool which does not take over the job of teaching, but promotes natural class environment and will aim to fit in the classroom environment. The software promotes better examination methods and encourages group work which is vital in any learning environment.

d) : '''What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you be using?'''

The software is being developed in Python with emphasis on easy User Interface. The software will use : PyGTK for User Interface; Telepathy and DBus Tubes for connectivity; XML DOM API for xml

Q.3 : What is the timeline for development of your project? The Summer of Code work period is 7 weeks long, May 23 - August 10; tell us what you will be working on each week. (As the summer goes on, you and your mentor will adjust your schedule, but it's good to have a plan at the beginning so you have an idea of where you're headed.) Note that you should probably plan to have something "working and 90% done" by the midterm evaluation (July 6-13); the last steps always take longer than you think, and we will consider cancelling projects which are not mostly working by then.

Ans : '''TODO''': Make a timeline after discussions

Q.4 : Convince us, in 5-15 sentences, that you will be able to successfully complete your project in the timeline you have described. This is usually where people describe their past experiences, credentials, prior projects, schoolwork, and that sort of thing, but be creative. Link to prior work or other resources as relevant.

Ans : I believe that I can work on the project in the given timeline, since the technology is there and I can give sufficient time over the summers. The work being proposed is not unreachable or require resources which I won't have access to. Thus, I see no reason why I should fail to complete the project.

'''TODO''': Try to make it more convincing.

I have also got some experience of coding. Particularly:

# I have been a part of GSoC 2008 as a student in Plazi.
# Two internships at Microsoft in the Office Mobile Division. Worked on the build system for Office Mobile and developed and implemented a sync story for exchange mails and tasks.
# Worked on development and project management of Foodforce which is an activity for Sugar, runs on Windows and Linux platforms too.
# Worked on PCard and UnoLipi.
# Developed and organised Linux Challenge and AI Challenge during technical fests. Been a winner at Linux Challenge, Technical Paper Presentation, Open Software Display in various colleges. ACM ICPC Regional contest participant.

====You and the community====

# If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.
# Sugar Labs will be working to set up a small (5-30 unit) Sugar pilot near each student project that is accepted to GSoC so that you can immediately see how your work affects children in a deployment. We will make arrangements to either supply or find all the equipment needed. Do you have any ideas on where you would like your deployment to be, who you would like to be involved, and how we can help you and the community in your area begin it?
# What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?
# How do you propose you will be keeping the community informed of your progress and any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?

====Miscellaneous====
[[Image:New-developer-challenge.png|thumb|right|An example of the kind of screenshot of your first modification to your development environment which you should include in your application. Note that the drop-down menu text has Mel's email address in place of the word "Restart" - your screenshot should contain your email instead.]]
# We want to make sure that you can set up a [[DevelopmentTeam#Development_systems|development environment]] before the summer starts. Please send us a link to a screenshot of your Sugar development environment with the following modification: when you hover over the XO-person icon in the middle of Home view, the drop-down text should have your email in place of "Restart." See the image on the right for an example. It's normal to need assistance with this, so please visit our IRC channel, #sugar on irc.freenode.net, and ask for help.
# What is your t-shirt size? (Yes, we know Google asks for this already; humor us.)
# Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.
# Is there anything else we should have asked you or anything else that we should know that might make us like you or your project more?

<noinclude>[[Category:2009 GSoC applications]]</noinclude>

Educational Toolkit

2009-03-20T17:35:45Z

Deepankgupta:

====About you====

* What is your name?
Deepank Gupta
* What is your email address?
deepankgupta [AT] gmail [DOT] com
* What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?
deepankgupta
* What is your IRC nickname?
deepank
* What is your primary language? (We have mentors who speak multiple languages and can match you with one of them if you'd prefer.)
English and Hindi
* Where are you located, and what hours do you tend to work? (We also try to match mentors by general time zone if possible.)
Located in New Delhi, India, UTC +530.
I am flexible about my work-timings and can match up with a US Timezone too since I usually stay up late at night.
* Have you participated in an open-source project before? If so, please send us URLs to your profile pages for those projects, or some other demonstration of the work that you have done in open-source. If not, why do you want to work on an open-source project this summer?
Following are the projects I have been associated in :
1. Bibliographic Reference Parsing : http://code.google.com/p/bibliographic-reference-parsing/
OR http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2008-plazi/
2. Foodforce2 : http://code.google.com/p/foodforce/
3. AI Challenge : http://code.google.com/p/ai-challenge/
Apart from these projects, I have been associated closely with ILUG-D and Open Source Group in my college.

====About your project====

Q.1 : '''What is the name of your project?'''
Ans : Educational Toolkit
Q.2 : '''Describe your project in 10-20 sentences. What are you making? Who are you making it for, and why do they need it? What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you be using?'''
Ans :
a) : '''What are you making'''
The educational toolkit is a software to facilitate discussion in classroom with the help of technology. The software will aim at providing teachers and students with a tool to pose problems and then compare and discuss solutions. It can also be used as a formal testing tool for class tests and provide a better gauge of a student's progress to the teacher.
''''Features''''
# Teacher makes questions.
# Students give answers via collaboration or individually. Students split in groups and go from their individual answers to a collaborative answer
# Teacher can review all answers later
# Teacher gives individual or group feedback
'''TODO''': Write the collaboration story here.
b) : '''Who are you making it for'''
Primary, Secondary and Higher Secondary Students and Teachers.
c) : '''Why do they need it '''
It aims to act like a tool which does not take over the job of teaching, but promotes natural class environment and will aim to fit in the classroom environment. The software promotes better examination methods and encourages group work which is vital in any learning environment.
d) : '''What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you be using?'''
The software is being developed in Python with emphasis on easy User Interface. The software is being developed in Python with emphasis on easy User Interface. The software will use : PyGTK for User Interface; Telepathy and DBus Tubes for connectivity; XML DOM API for xml

Q.3 : What is the timeline for development of your project? The Summer of Code work period is 7 weeks long, May 23 - August 10; tell us what you will be working on each week. (As the summer goes on, you and your mentor will adjust your schedule, but it's good to have a plan at the beginning so you have an idea of where you're headed.) Note that you should probably plan to have something "working and 90% done" by the midterm evaluation (July 6-13); the last steps always take longer than you think, and we will consider cancelling projects which are not mostly working by then.
Ans : '''TODO''': Make a timeline after discussions

Q.4 : Convince us, in 5-15 sentences, that you will be able to successfully complete your project in the timeline you have described. This is usually where people describe their past experiences, credentials, prior projects, schoolwork, and that sort of thing, but be creative. Link to prior work or other resources as relevant.
Ans : I believe that I can work on the project in the given timeline, since the technology is there and I can give sufficient time over the summers. The work being proposed is not unreachable or require resources which I won't have access to. Thus, I see no reason why I should fail to complete the project.
'''TODO''': Try to make it more convincing.
I have also got some experience of coding. Particularly:
# I have been a part of GSoC 2008 as a student in Plazi.
# Two internships at Microsoft in the Office Mobile Division. Worked on the build system for Office Mobile and developed and implemented a sync story for exchange mails and tasks.
# Worked on development and project management of Foodforce which is an activity for Sugar, runs on Windows and Linux platforms too.
# Worked on PCard and UnoLipi.
# Developed and organised Linux Challenge and AI Challenge during technical fests. Been a winner at Linux Challenge, Technical Paper Presentation, Open Software Display in various colleges. ACM ICPC Regional contest participant.
<<Links to various Open Source Projects presented above>>

====You and the community====

# If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.
# Sugar Labs will be working to set up a small (5-30 unit) Sugar pilot near each student project that is accepted to GSoC so that you can immediately see how your work affects children in a deployment. We will make arrangements to either supply or find all the equipment needed. Do you have any ideas on where you would like your deployment to be, who you would like to be involved, and how we can help you and the community in your area begin it?
# What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?
# How do you propose you will be keeping the community informed of your progress and any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?

====Miscellaneous====
[[Image:New-developer-challenge.png|thumb|right|An example of the kind of screenshot of your first modification to your development environment which you should include in your application. Note that the drop-down menu text has Mel's email address in place of the word "Restart" - your screenshot should contain your email instead.]]
# We want to make sure that you can set up a [[DevelopmentTeam#Development_systems|development environment]] before the summer starts. Please send us a link to a screenshot of your Sugar development environment with the following modification: when you hover over the XO-person icon in the middle of Home view, the drop-down text should have your email in place of "Restart." See the image on the right for an example. It's normal to need assistance with this, so please visit our IRC channel, #sugar on irc.freenode.net, and ask for help.
# What is your t-shirt size? (Yes, we know Google asks for this already; humor us.)
# Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.
# Is there anything else we should have asked you or anything else that we should know that might make us like you or your project more?

<noinclude>[[Category:2009 GSoC applications]]</noinclude>

Educational Toolkit

2009-03-20T17:11:44Z

Deepankgupta:

====About you====

* What is your name?
Deepank Gupta
* What is your email address?
deepankgupta [AT] gmail [DOT] com
* What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?
deepankgupta
* What is your IRC nickname?
deepank
* What is your primary language? (We have mentors who speak multiple languages and can match you with one of them if you'd prefer.)
English and Hindi
* Where are you located, and what hours do you tend to work? (We also try to match mentors by general time zone if possible.)
Located in New Delhi, India, UTC +530.
I am flexible about my work-timings and can match up with a US Timezone too since I usually stay up late at night.
* Have you participated in an open-source project before? If so, please send us URLs to your profile pages for those projects, or some other demonstration of the work that you have done in open-source. If not, why do you want to work on an open-source project this summer?
Following are the projects I have been associated in :
1. Bibliographic Reference Parsing : http://code.google.com/p/bibliographic-reference-parsing/
OR http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2008-plazi/
2. Foodforce2 : http://code.google.com/p/foodforce/
3. AI Challenge : http://code.google.com/p/ai-challenge/
Apart from these projects, I have been associated closely with ILUG-D and Open Source Group in my college.

====About your project====

* What is the name of your project?
Educational Toolkit
* Describe your project in 10-20 sentences. What are you making? Who are you making it for, and why do they need it? What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you be using?
** What are you making
The educational toolkit is a software to facilitate discussion in classroom with the help of technology. The software will aim
at providing teachers and students with a tool to pose problems and then compare and discuss solutions. It can also be used as
a formal testing tool for class tests and provide a better gauge of a student's progress to the teacher.
Features
# Teacher makes questions.
# Students give answers via collaboration or individually. Students split in groups and go from their individual answers to a
collaborative answer
# Teacher can review all answers later
# Teacher gives individual or group feedback
** Who are you making it for
Primary, Secondary and Higher Secondary Students and Teachers.
** Why do they need it
It aims to act like a tool which does not take over the job of teaching, but promotes natural class environment and will aim
to fit in the classroom environment. The software promotes better examination methods and encourages group work which is vital
in any learning environment.
** What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you be using?
The software is being developed in Python with emphasis on easy User Interface. The software is being developed in Python with
emphasis on easy User Interface. The software will use : PyGTK for User Interface; Telepathy and DBus Tubes for connectivity;
XML DOM API for xml

* What is the timeline for development of your project? The Summer of Code work period is 7 weeks long, May 23 - August 10; tell us what you will be working on each week. (As the summer goes on, you and your mentor will adjust your schedule, but it's good to have a plan at the beginning so you have an idea of where you're headed.) Note that you should probably plan to have something "working and 90% done" by the midterm evaluation (July 6-13); the last steps always take longer than you think, and we will consider cancelling projects which are not mostly working by then.

* Convince us, in 5-15 sentences, that you will be able to successfully complete your project in the timeline you have described. This is usually where people describe their past experiences, credentials, prior projects, schoolwork, and that sort of thing, but be creative. Link to prior work or other resources as relevant.

====You and the community====

# If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.
# Sugar Labs will be working to set up a small (5-30 unit) Sugar pilot near each student project that is accepted to GSoC so that you can immediately see how your work affects children in a deployment. We will make arrangements to either supply or find all the equipment needed. Do you have any ideas on where you would like your deployment to be, who you would like to be involved, and how we can help you and the community in your area begin it?
# What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?
# How do you propose you will be keeping the community informed of your progress and any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?

====Miscellaneous====
[[Image:New-developer-challenge.png|thumb|right|An example of the kind of screenshot of your first modification to your development environment which you should include in your application. Note that the drop-down menu text has Mel's email address in place of the word "Restart" - your screenshot should contain your email instead.]]
# We want to make sure that you can set up a [[DevelopmentTeam#Development_systems|development environment]] before the summer starts. Please send us a link to a screenshot of your Sugar development environment with the following modification: when you hover over the XO-person icon in the middle of Home view, the drop-down text should have your email in place of "Restart." See the image on the right for an example. It's normal to need assistance with this, so please visit our IRC channel, #sugar on irc.freenode.net, and ask for help.
# What is your t-shirt size? (Yes, we know Google asks for this already; humor us.)
# Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.
# Is there anything else we should have asked you or anything else that we should know that might make us like you or your project more?

<noinclude>[[Category:2009 GSoC applications]]</noinclude>

Educational Toolkit

2009-03-20T16:47:19Z

Deepankgupta:

Educational Toolkit

2009-03-20T16:46:14Z

Deepankgupta:

Educational Toolkit

2009-03-20T16:43:02Z

Deepankgupta:

====About you====

# What is your name?
** Deepank Gupta
# What is your email address?
** deepankgupta [AT] gmail [DOT] com
# What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?
** deepankgupta
# What is your IRC nickname?
** deepank
# What is your primary language? (We have mentors who speak multiple languages and can match you with one of them if you'd prefer.)
** English and Hindi
# Where are you located, and what hours do you tend to work? (We also try to match mentors by general time zone if possible.)
** Located in New Delhi, India, UTC +530. I am flexible about my work-timings and can match up with a US Timezone too since I usually stay up late at night.
# Have you participated in an open-source project before? If so, please send us URLs to your profile pages for those projects, or some other demonstration of the work that you have done in open-source. If not, why do you want to work on an open-source project this summer?
** Following are the projects I have been associated in :
## Bibliographic Reference Parsing : http://code.google.com/p/bibliographic-reference-parsing/ OR http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2008-plazi/
## Foodforce2 : http://code.google.com/p/foodforce/
## AI Challenge : http://code.google.com/p/ai-challenge/
Apart from these projects, I have been associated closely with ILUG-D and Open Source Group in my college.

====About your project====

# What is the name of your project?
Educational Toolkit
# Describe your project in 10-20 sentences. What are you making? Who are you making it for, and why do they need it? What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you be using?

# What is the timeline for development of your project? The Summer of Code work period is 7 weeks long, May 23 - August 10; tell us what you will be working on each week. (As the summer goes on, you and your mentor will adjust your schedule, but it's good to have a plan at the beginning so you have an idea of where you're headed.) Note that you should probably plan to have something "working and 90% done" by the midterm evaluation (July 6-13); the last steps always take longer than you think, and we will consider cancelling projects which are not mostly working by then.
# Convince us, in 5-15 sentences, that you will be able to successfully complete your project in the timeline you have described. This is usually where people describe their past experiences, credentials, prior projects, schoolwork, and that sort of thing, but be creative. Link to prior work or other resources as relevant.

====You and the community====

# If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.
# Sugar Labs will be working to set up a small (5-30 unit) Sugar pilot near each student project that is accepted to GSoC so that you can immediately see how your work affects children in a deployment. We will make arrangements to either supply or find all the equipment needed. Do you have any ideas on where you would like your deployment to be, who you would like to be involved, and how we can help you and the community in your area begin it?
# What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?
# How do you propose you will be keeping the community informed of your progress and any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?

====Miscellaneous====
[[Image:New-developer-challenge.png|thumb|right|An example of the kind of screenshot of your first modification to your development environment which you should include in your application. Note that the drop-down menu text has Mel's email address in place of the word "Restart" - your screenshot should contain your email instead.]]
# We want to make sure that you can set up a [[DevelopmentTeam#Development_systems|development environment]] before the summer starts. Please send us a link to a screenshot of your Sugar development environment with the following modification: when you hover over the XO-person icon in the middle of Home view, the drop-down text should have your email in place of "Restart." See the image on the right for an example. It's normal to need assistance with this, so please visit our IRC channel, #sugar on irc.freenode.net, and ask for help.
# What is your t-shirt size? (Yes, we know Google asks for this already; humor us.)
# Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.
# Is there anything else we should have asked you or anything else that we should know that might make us like you or your project more?

<noinclude>[[Category:2009 GSoC applications]]</noinclude>

Educational Toolkit

2009-03-20T16:42:10Z

Deepankgupta: New page: ====About you==== # What is your name? Deepank Gupta # What is your email address? deepankgupta [AT] gmail [DOT] com # What is your Sugar Labs wiki username? deepankgupta # What is your I...

====About you====

# What is your name?
Deepank Gupta
# What is your email address?
deepankgupta [AT] gmail [DOT] com
# What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?
deepankgupta
# What is your IRC nickname?
deepank
# What is your primary language? (We have mentors who speak multiple languages and can match you with one of them if you'd prefer.)
English and Hindi
# Where are you located, and what hours do you tend to work? (We also try to match mentors by general time zone if possible.)
Located in New Delhi, India, UTC +530. I am flexible about my work-timings and can match up with a US Timezone too since I usually stay up late at night.
# Have you participated in an open-source project before? If so, please send us URLs to your profile pages for those projects, or some other demonstration of the work that you have done in open-source. If not, why do you want to work on an open-source project this summer?
Following are the projects I have been associated in :
## Bibliographic Reference Parsing : http://code.google.com/p/bibliographic-reference-parsing/ OR http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2008-plazi/
## Foodforce2 : http://code.google.com/p/foodforce/
## AI Challenge : http://code.google.com/p/ai-challenge/
Apart from these projects, I have been associated closely with ILUG-D and Open Source Group in my college.

====About your project====

# What is the name of your project?
Educational Toolkit
# Describe your project in 10-20 sentences. What are you making? Who are you making it for, and why do they need it? What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you be using?

# What is the timeline for development of your project? The Summer of Code work period is 7 weeks long, May 23 - August 10; tell us what you will be working on each week. (As the summer goes on, you and your mentor will adjust your schedule, but it's good to have a plan at the beginning so you have an idea of where you're headed.) Note that you should probably plan to have something "working and 90% done" by the midterm evaluation (July 6-13); the last steps always take longer than you think, and we will consider cancelling projects which are not mostly working by then.
# Convince us, in 5-15 sentences, that you will be able to successfully complete your project in the timeline you have described. This is usually where people describe their past experiences, credentials, prior projects, schoolwork, and that sort of thing, but be creative. Link to prior work or other resources as relevant.

====You and the community====

# If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.
# Sugar Labs will be working to set up a small (5-30 unit) Sugar pilot near each student project that is accepted to GSoC so that you can immediately see how your work affects children in a deployment. We will make arrangements to either supply or find all the equipment needed. Do you have any ideas on where you would like your deployment to be, who you would like to be involved, and how we can help you and the community in your area begin it?
# What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?
# How do you propose you will be keeping the community informed of your progress and any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?

====Miscellaneous====
[[Image:New-developer-challenge.png|thumb|right|An example of the kind of screenshot of your first modification to your development environment which you should include in your application. Note that the drop-down menu text has Mel's email address in place of the word "Restart" - your screenshot should contain your email instead.]]
# We want to make sure that you can set up a [[DevelopmentTeam#Development_systems|development environment]] before the summer starts. Please send us a link to a screenshot of your Sugar development environment with the following modification: when you hover over the XO-person icon in the middle of Home view, the drop-down text should have your email in place of "Restart." See the image on the right for an example. It's normal to need assistance with this, so please visit our IRC channel, #sugar on irc.freenode.net, and ask for help.
# What is your t-shirt size? (Yes, we know Google asks for this already; humor us.)
# Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.
# Is there anything else we should have asked you or anything else that we should know that might make us like you or your project more?

<noinclude>[[Category:2009 GSoC applications]]</noinclude>

Development Team/Project Ideas

2009-03-08T14:37:18Z

Deepankgupta: /* Educational Toolkit */

== About ==

This is a dumping ground for crazy ideas. Suitable for farming out to interns, Google SoC folks, or eager community members.

* Adding hooks between Browse / Write / Google Docs to provide a killer offline mode for Google Docs. Google Gears allegedly makes this easy.
* A better, more fun, Paint option for small children - One way - Use eToys - http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/etoys/2008-November/002770.html

* See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:GSoC_proposals

== Core Software ==

=== Accessibility Support ===
Sugar currently doesn't have anything available for the visually impaired.

=== Speech Synthesis integration into Sugar ===
Integrate speech synthesis with all activities, not just [[Speak]], and provide for karaoke coloring. See [[User:Mokurai|Mokurai]]'s [http://www.olpcnews.com/content/ebooks/effective_adult_literacy_program.html article] on adapting [[Same Language Subtitling]] for literacy to the XO.

Desirable Features for Sugar Speech Synthesis Plugin:

* Provide Sugar Speech Synthesis Configuration Management Tool
* Karaoke Style Coloring in Sugar Environment
* UI for configuration Control
* Accent gets set on the basis of locale

=== Java ===
Package and integrate the IcedTea open source bootstrap of OpenJDK Java with browser plugin for the XO. Deliverables would include:
* Binary, source and rpm dependencies for icedtea and icedtea browser plugin
* Java enabled os image
* Integration of packages into autobuild branch

=== Print Support ===
Print support in Sugar would be useful in many scenarios. The ideal project deliverables would include
* Integration of a printing infrastructure (CUPS ??) into the XO-1 software images
* Modification of Sugar Control Panel to set up the printer (add/select default printer?)
* Modification of at least one activity (Write ?) to support printing
* Making a printing activity, that follows sugar GUI guidelines?

:I am highly interested in working on this project. Would the project leader mind contacting me at bmw.stx@gmail.com?

=== JavaScript-Python Communication ===
JavaScript Python Communication through the following strategies: PyXPCom, hulahop, and xulrunner. Ideally, develop a demo activity which could be used as a template for sugarizing javascript activities.

=== Graphical toolkit ===
Important work left to do:
* Give focus feedback by showing a rounded rectangle in gtk buttons and HippoCanvas icons.
* Implement keyboard navigation in HippoCanvas.
* Implement accessibility hooks in HippoCanvas.
* Improve keyboard shortcuts - make them easier to create and implement a UI to make them more discoverable, such as transparent letters which appear when you hold <ctrl>

=== Mono/.NET ===
The use of Mono could really enhance the number of Sugar developers due to the huge existing .NET community.
Thanks to Torello Querci, developing a Sugar activity in Mono is already possible using the Mono/Sugar bindings Sugar.dll (more [[Mono here]]).

The idea for this GSOC project is to greatly enhance this binding:
* Better integration with the Sugar look & feel and HippoCanvas,
* Binding to telepathy API,
* WinForm compatibility,
* MonoDevelop integration.

=== Titanium Sugar ===

* Integrate Titanium-made apps to Sugar.
* Do a titanium activity to develop html/javascript/css appilcations inside Sugar.

== Activities ==
=== VideoChat activity ===
telepathy-python has support for audio and video streaming and has recently gained support for using gstreamer, which means that we could easily do efficient videoconferencing using fully open source codecs.

So a really nice project would be to do a proper Sugar activity for video conferencing.

=== Language Trainer ===
A language trainer with text to speech support would be very nice. Something that could start with letters and then teach words.

=== Thesaurus ===
Working together with openthesaurus -- someone could create a thesaurus for kids to learn different words (synonyms and antonyms)

=== Improved Read activity ===
Use Gecko to implement a reader for [http://www.openebook.org/ epub] format ebooks. This is superior to PDF because such books can be reflowed to better fit the screen and user preferences. Also, (although it would break the standard) it would make it very simple to include AJAX-style active features to books.

Extra credit if you support textual and graphical annotation. Deployments have also asked for a page-turn animation.

=== KDEEdu ===

Sugarize any [http://edu.kde.org/ KDEEdu] activity, especially the ones which have no corresponding Sugar activity.

=== Gnash ===

Put some code around Gnash that allows to easily do activities based on Flash content. Also develop Gnash extensions that allow flash activities to interact with the journal, presence service, telepathy, etc

=== UCB Logo ===

We need to add journal support (and a standard Sugar toolbar).

=== FoodForce2 Activity ===

* Integrate story board into the game.
* Make an extensible API to enable educators to add their own storyboards.
* Add Speech Support into the project.
* Optimise the speed and efficiency of the game.

Link : http://code.google.com/p/foodforce/

=== Educational Toolkit ===

* Enable collaboration scenarios
* Work on the GUI to provide support for multiple types of questions.
* Add API to make it easy to add new question types.

Link : http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_toolkit

== Some ideas for improving Sugar Activities ==
*See [[MarketingTeam/Events/Sugarcamp_Boston_2008/Minutes#Items_from_the_roadmap_brainstorm|a list of project ideas]] from a brainstorming session at Sugar Camp.

== More of your ideas ==

=== Preeti's list ===

Hi, I am Preeti, from New Delhi. I would like to get myself involved in this very interesting aspect of the OLPC software development. I have jotted some of my views on the same at:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_talk:59.178.99.172

Regards
Preeti

Development Team/Project Ideas

2009-03-08T14:36:36Z

Deepankgupta: /* FoodForce2 Activity */

== About ==

This is a dumping ground for crazy ideas. Suitable for farming out to interns, Google SoC folks, or eager community members.

* Adding hooks between Browse / Write / Google Docs to provide a killer offline mode for Google Docs. Google Gears allegedly makes this easy.
* A better, more fun, Paint option for small children - One way - Use eToys - http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/etoys/2008-November/002770.html

* See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:GSoC_proposals

== Core Software ==

=== Accessibility Support ===
Sugar currently doesn't have anything available for the visually impaired.

=== Speech Synthesis integration into Sugar ===
Integrate speech synthesis with all activities, not just [[Speak]], and provide for karaoke coloring. See [[User:Mokurai|Mokurai]]'s [http://www.olpcnews.com/content/ebooks/effective_adult_literacy_program.html article] on adapting [[Same Language Subtitling]] for literacy to the XO.

Desirable Features for Sugar Speech Synthesis Plugin:

* Provide Sugar Speech Synthesis Configuration Management Tool
* Karaoke Style Coloring in Sugar Environment
* UI for configuration Control
* Accent gets set on the basis of locale

=== Java ===
Package and integrate the IcedTea open source bootstrap of OpenJDK Java with browser plugin for the XO. Deliverables would include:
* Binary, source and rpm dependencies for icedtea and icedtea browser plugin
* Java enabled os image
* Integration of packages into autobuild branch

=== Print Support ===
Print support in Sugar would be useful in many scenarios. The ideal project deliverables would include
* Integration of a printing infrastructure (CUPS ??) into the XO-1 software images
* Modification of Sugar Control Panel to set up the printer (add/select default printer?)
* Modification of at least one activity (Write ?) to support printing
* Making a printing activity, that follows sugar GUI guidelines?

:I am highly interested in working on this project. Would the project leader mind contacting me at bmw.stx@gmail.com?

=== JavaScript-Python Communication ===
JavaScript Python Communication through the following strategies: PyXPCom, hulahop, and xulrunner. Ideally, develop a demo activity which could be used as a template for sugarizing javascript activities.

=== Graphical toolkit ===
Important work left to do:
* Give focus feedback by showing a rounded rectangle in gtk buttons and HippoCanvas icons.
* Implement keyboard navigation in HippoCanvas.
* Implement accessibility hooks in HippoCanvas.
* Improve keyboard shortcuts - make them easier to create and implement a UI to make them more discoverable, such as transparent letters which appear when you hold <ctrl>

=== Mono/.NET ===
The use of Mono could really enhance the number of Sugar developers due to the huge existing .NET community.
Thanks to Torello Querci, developing a Sugar activity in Mono is already possible using the Mono/Sugar bindings Sugar.dll (more [[Mono here]]).

The idea for this GSOC project is to greatly enhance this binding:
* Better integration with the Sugar look & feel and HippoCanvas,
* Binding to telepathy API,
* WinForm compatibility,
* MonoDevelop integration.

=== Titanium Sugar ===

* Integrate Titanium-made apps to Sugar.
* Do a titanium activity to develop html/javascript/css appilcations inside Sugar.

== Activities ==
=== VideoChat activity ===
telepathy-python has support for audio and video streaming and has recently gained support for using gstreamer, which means that we could easily do efficient videoconferencing using fully open source codecs.

So a really nice project would be to do a proper Sugar activity for video conferencing.

=== Language Trainer ===
A language trainer with text to speech support would be very nice. Something that could start with letters and then teach words.

=== Thesaurus ===
Working together with openthesaurus -- someone could create a thesaurus for kids to learn different words (synonyms and antonyms)

=== Improved Read activity ===
Use Gecko to implement a reader for [http://www.openebook.org/ epub] format ebooks. This is superior to PDF because such books can be reflowed to better fit the screen and user preferences. Also, (although it would break the standard) it would make it very simple to include AJAX-style active features to books.

Extra credit if you support textual and graphical annotation. Deployments have also asked for a page-turn animation.

=== KDEEdu ===

Sugarize any [http://edu.kde.org/ KDEEdu] activity, especially the ones which have no corresponding Sugar activity.

=== Gnash ===

Put some code around Gnash that allows to easily do activities based on Flash content. Also develop Gnash extensions that allow flash activities to interact with the journal, presence service, telepathy, etc

=== UCB Logo ===

We need to add journal support (and a standard Sugar toolbar).

=== FoodForce2 Activity ===

* Integrate story board into the game.
* Make an extensible API to enable educators to add their own storyboards.
* Add Speech Support into the project.
* Optimise the speed and efficiency of the game.

Link : http://code.google.com/p/foodforce/

=== Educational Toolkit ===

* Enable collaboration scenarios
* Work on the GUI to provide support for multiple types of questions.
* Add API to make it easy to add new question types.

== Some ideas for improving Sugar Activities ==
*See [[MarketingTeam/Events/Sugarcamp_Boston_2008/Minutes#Items_from_the_roadmap_brainstorm|a list of project ideas]] from a brainstorming session at Sugar Camp.

== More of your ideas ==

=== Preeti's list ===

Hi, I am Preeti, from New Delhi. I would like to get myself involved in this very interesting aspect of the OLPC software development. I have jotted some of my views on the same at:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_talk:59.178.99.172

Regards
Preeti

Development Team/Project Ideas

2009-03-08T14:35:38Z

Deepankgupta: /* Activities */

== About ==

This is a dumping ground for crazy ideas. Suitable for farming out to interns, Google SoC folks, or eager community members.

* Adding hooks between Browse / Write / Google Docs to provide a killer offline mode for Google Docs. Google Gears allegedly makes this easy.
* A better, more fun, Paint option for small children - One way - Use eToys - http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/etoys/2008-November/002770.html

* See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:GSoC_proposals

== Core Software ==

=== Accessibility Support ===
Sugar currently doesn't have anything available for the visually impaired.

=== Speech Synthesis integration into Sugar ===
Integrate speech synthesis with all activities, not just [[Speak]], and provide for karaoke coloring. See [[User:Mokurai|Mokurai]]'s [http://www.olpcnews.com/content/ebooks/effective_adult_literacy_program.html article] on adapting [[Same Language Subtitling]] for literacy to the XO.

Desirable Features for Sugar Speech Synthesis Plugin:

* Provide Sugar Speech Synthesis Configuration Management Tool
* Karaoke Style Coloring in Sugar Environment
* UI for configuration Control
* Accent gets set on the basis of locale

=== Java ===
Package and integrate the IcedTea open source bootstrap of OpenJDK Java with browser plugin for the XO. Deliverables would include:
* Binary, source and rpm dependencies for icedtea and icedtea browser plugin
* Java enabled os image
* Integration of packages into autobuild branch

=== Print Support ===
Print support in Sugar would be useful in many scenarios. The ideal project deliverables would include
* Integration of a printing infrastructure (CUPS ??) into the XO-1 software images
* Modification of Sugar Control Panel to set up the printer (add/select default printer?)
* Modification of at least one activity (Write ?) to support printing
* Making a printing activity, that follows sugar GUI guidelines?

:I am highly interested in working on this project. Would the project leader mind contacting me at bmw.stx@gmail.com?

=== JavaScript-Python Communication ===
JavaScript Python Communication through the following strategies: PyXPCom, hulahop, and xulrunner. Ideally, develop a demo activity which could be used as a template for sugarizing javascript activities.

=== Graphical toolkit ===
Important work left to do:
* Give focus feedback by showing a rounded rectangle in gtk buttons and HippoCanvas icons.
* Implement keyboard navigation in HippoCanvas.
* Implement accessibility hooks in HippoCanvas.
* Improve keyboard shortcuts - make them easier to create and implement a UI to make them more discoverable, such as transparent letters which appear when you hold <ctrl>

=== Mono/.NET ===
The use of Mono could really enhance the number of Sugar developers due to the huge existing .NET community.
Thanks to Torello Querci, developing a Sugar activity in Mono is already possible using the Mono/Sugar bindings Sugar.dll (more [[Mono here]]).

The idea for this GSOC project is to greatly enhance this binding:
* Better integration with the Sugar look & feel and HippoCanvas,
* Binding to telepathy API,
* WinForm compatibility,
* MonoDevelop integration.

=== Titanium Sugar ===

* Integrate Titanium-made apps to Sugar.
* Do a titanium activity to develop html/javascript/css appilcations inside Sugar.

== Activities ==
=== VideoChat activity ===
telepathy-python has support for audio and video streaming and has recently gained support for using gstreamer, which means that we could easily do efficient videoconferencing using fully open source codecs.

So a really nice project would be to do a proper Sugar activity for video conferencing.

=== Language Trainer ===
A language trainer with text to speech support would be very nice. Something that could start with letters and then teach words.

=== Thesaurus ===
Working together with openthesaurus -- someone could create a thesaurus for kids to learn different words (synonyms and antonyms)

=== Improved Read activity ===
Use Gecko to implement a reader for [http://www.openebook.org/ epub] format ebooks. This is superior to PDF because such books can be reflowed to better fit the screen and user preferences. Also, (although it would break the standard) it would make it very simple to include AJAX-style active features to books.

Extra credit if you support textual and graphical annotation. Deployments have also asked for a page-turn animation.

=== KDEEdu ===

Sugarize any [http://edu.kde.org/ KDEEdu] activity, especially the ones which have no corresponding Sugar activity.

=== Gnash ===

Put some code around Gnash that allows to easily do activities based on Flash content. Also develop Gnash extensions that allow flash activities to interact with the journal, presence service, telepathy, etc

=== UCB Logo ===

We need to add journal support (and a standard Sugar toolbar).

=== FoodForce2 Activity ===

* Integrate story board into the game.
* Make an extensible API to enable educators to add their own storyboards.
* Add Speech Support into the project.
* Optimise the speed and efficiency of the game.

=== Educational Toolkit ===

* Enable collaboration scenarios
* Work on the GUI to provide support for multiple types of questions.
* Add API to make it easy to add new question types.

== Some ideas for improving Sugar Activities ==
*See [[MarketingTeam/Events/Sugarcamp_Boston_2008/Minutes#Items_from_the_roadmap_brainstorm|a list of project ideas]] from a brainstorming session at Sugar Camp.

== More of your ideas ==

=== Preeti's list ===

Hi, I am Preeti, from New Delhi. I would like to get myself involved in this very interesting aspect of the OLPC software development. I have jotted some of my views on the same at:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_talk:59.178.99.172

Regards
Preeti