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Groupthink

2009-09-11T16:58:23Z

Homunq:

NOTE: this application was never processed because it was not submitted to Google OR included in the relevant category (Category:2009 GSoC applications) at the time.

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====About you====

# Jason Rock
# rockj (at) rpi (dot) edu
# [[User:Jrock]]
# Jrock08
# English
# US Central Time Zone
# [[olpc:Time]] [[Math4Team]], current project multiply at [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/multiply].
I want to work in open source because I have used open source for a while, but I didn't feel I had the skills and I didn't make the time to contribute. I feel that I have increased my programing and computer science skills to the point where I can work on a real project.
I want to contribute to Sugar because I would have loved to have a computer with games and learning tools for me when I was growing up. I also really enjoy thinking about education. I always wondered why our education system for the elementary grades didn't make learning as fun as I feel it could have been.

====About your project====

# Groupthink
# Groupthink is a development toolkit meant to make collaboration projects easier by abstracting the many algorithms such as failure recovery that are required to effectively collaborate between XO's. As a first step, I am looking at incorporating the string tree that allows for lossless merging which is already in the git repo into the project and then patching the write activity to use Groupthink. I am doing this to help other developers who have applications that could be networked

# I will have to talk more with Ben Schwartz to get a better idea of a potential timeline
# I feel I will be able to successfully help develop the groupthink toolkit because I am a strong algorithm programmer having competed in many contests at USACO, ACSL, and Topcoder with some success. I feel that I have a fairly strong base in algorithms from my competitions and formal classes, and am currently taking a theoretical algorithms course that has helped ground my applied algorithms knowledge. As a young programmer I obviously don't have a large portfolio, but I have written a neural network, A*, and numerous other algorithms and data structures from scratch. I have also helped write a simulation of a house fire (in 72 hours for a math modeling competition) and image manipulation with the end goal to solve CAPTCHAs.

====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.
# I would like to see the community group set up in the Aurora Illinois area near the Illinois Math and Science Academy. It would be close enough for me (1 hour drive) and would help out the IMSA OLPC chapter by giving them a lasting resource.
# If I get stuck I will attempt to find a relevant answer from Google or IRC if it is an implementation problem. If it is a theoretical problem my two roommates from IMSA are always willing to talk with me about algorithms, and if they aren't available I will make some new friends on IRC.
# To keep the community informed I will be active in the IRC channel as well as on the mailing list. I will also keep an up to date wiki page.

====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 [[Development Team#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.
# Medium
# Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.


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2009-04-12T23:41:21Z

Homunq:

We would like to interview the top candidates for Google Summer of Code under Sugar Labs. Please sign up for a time below. If you have been told the name of your provisional prospective mentor, and your mentor has put his/her preferred times below, please try to find a time which works for your mentor. (Note that mentor assignments are still in flux; if your provisional prospective mentor changes, we will try to accomadate your chosen time or reschedule at a convenient time for you.)

If you have not been told to sign up to interview (through a public comment on your application), please do not sign up here. Interview time is limited, and we are trying to interview the applicants with the best chances of admission. Like many other organizations participating in GSoC, we have received more good applications than we have funding for interviews. Almost all of our applications would be things that we'd really love to have you working on, even if we don't have space for you in GSoC. If you are interested in finishing your project and would like a mentor assigned even though we can't give you a slot, please contact us on the sugar-devel or gsoc mailing list and we'll work something out.

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2009-04-12T23:39:59Z

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If you have not been told to sign up to interview (through a public comment on your application), please do not sign up here. Interview time is limited, and we are trying to interview the applicants with the best chances of admission. Like many other organizations participating in GSoC, we have received more good applications than we have funding for interviews. Almost all of our applications would be things that we'd really love to have you working on, even if we don't have space for you in GSoC. If you are interested in finishing your project and would like a mentor assigned even though we can't give you a slot, please contact us on the sugar-devel or gsoc mailing list and we'll work something out.

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Summer of Code/Application review notes

2009-04-08T13:46:15Z

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Thank you to everyone who applied for GSoC this year. Here are some comments:

*Please try to watch your application's talk page, as well as the comments in google's web app, and respond as quickly as possible. If language is a barrier, it is better to respond in Spanish than not at all, although English is preferred.

== Don't reinvent the wheel ==
When working in open source, the idea is to get as much done with as little work as possible. That means you need the ability to find, evaluate, and adapt existing code to your purposes. Some (not all) of your applications do not give adequate attention to this issue. If we send you a link to this subsection, please respond by:

*Searching (in places like sourceforge and google code) for existing tools which do something similar to what you propose

*Evaluating their usefulness, including the health of the code, the approximate size of dependencies they would add to Sugar, and their adaptability for your purpose.

*Figuring out, as specifically as possible in the time you have, how they'd fit into sugar, and where you'd have to change the tool or sugar itself to make that happen.

Tell us something about what you find in each step. Even "I found project xxx but it's defunct, and yyy but it doesn't fit at all because zzz" is useful to us to see that you can do this work.

== Competing proposals ==

Your proposal is one of two or more proposals to attack the same problem. In order to decide, we will be looking at the following, in more or less this order:

* Clarity, specificity, and attainability of the deliverables mentioned in your timeline.

* Any useful patches you submit to Sugar or one of our upstream projects. Please link such patches in comments on your application.

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* Your community involvement during this period. This includes responsiveness to any comments on your application or on your proposal's talk page; your own helpful comments on other application's talk pages; and any other community tasks such as bug triage or wiki cleanup. Feel free to call attention to any of this in your application, but don't let it get in the way of the above two points.

* Your own qualifications, as far as we can evaluate from your application.

Note also that we will consider accepting two good applications in the same general problem space if we consider them to be distinct enough.

Please act accordingly.

== and more ==

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[[Category:2009 GSoC applications]]

Summer of Code/Application review notes

2009-04-08T13:43:38Z

Homunq: /* more */

Thank you to everyone who applied for GSoC this year. Here are some comments:

*Please try to watch your application's talk page, as well as the comments in google's web app, and respond as quickly as possible. If language is a barrier, it is better to respond in Spanish than not at all, although English is preferred.

== Don't reinvent the wheel ==
When working in open source, the idea is to get as much done with as little work as possible. That means you need the ability to find, evaluate, and adapt existing code to your purposes. Some (not all) of your applications do not give adequate attention to this issue. If we send you a link to this subsection, please respond by:

*Searching (in places like sourceforge and google code) for existing tools which do something similar to what you propose

*Evaluating their usefulness, including the health of the code, the approximate size of dependencies they would add to Sugar, and their adaptability for your purpose.

*Figuring out, as specifically as possible in the time you have, how they'd fit into sugar, and where you'd have to change the tool or sugar itself to make that happen.

Tell us something about what you find in each step. Even "I found project xxx but it's defunct, and yyy but it doesn't fit at all because zzz" is useful to us to see that you can do this work.

== more ==

Your proposal is one of two or more proposals to attack the same problem. In order to decide, we will be looking at the following, in more or less this order:

* Clarity, specificity, and attainability of the deliverables mentioned in your timeline.

* Any useful patches you submit to Sugar or one of our upstream projects. Please link such patches in comments on your application.

* Your community involvement during this period. This includes responsiveness to any comments on your application or on your proposal's talk page; your own helpful comments on other application's talk pages; and any other community tasks such as bug triage or wiki cleanup. Feel free to call attention to any of this in your application, but don't let it get in the way of the above two points.

* Your own qualifications, as far as we can evaluate from your application.

Please act accordingly.

== and more ==

== yet more ==

[[Category:2009 GSoC applications]]

Summer of Code/2009/Marbles

2009-04-08T00:44:17Z

Homunq:

THIS IS A DUPLICATE APPLICATION, JUST USE [[Marbles]] PLEASE.

=== About Me ===

Q1.''' What is your name? '''

Ans. Puneet Girdhar

Q2. '''What is your email address?'''

Ans. puneetgirdhar.iiit@gmail.com

Q3. '''What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?'''

Ans. puneet

Q4. '''What is your IRC nickname?'''

Ans. chasedspeed

Q5. '''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. hindi. good at english though.

Q6. '''Where are you located, and what hours do you tend to work? (We also try to match mentors by general time zone if possible.)'''

Ans.Hyderabad, India-500032. In summer, I can devote full time on open source activity. Any time suits me fine.

Q7. '''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.This would be my first active participation in open source development. I have worked on variety of projects ranging from web services, mobile development in j2me, python web server managment. I guess, I knew about GSOC before but was busy in learning open source technologies so could not apply before, but now after gaining enough experience about project development and technical skills I didn't want to lose the opportunity to contribute back to open source community.I want to get started here and wish to continue even after GSOC.

=== About My project ===

Q8. ''' What is the name of your project?'''

Ans. Marbles : Shape the imagination

Q9. ''' 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.We are supporting children imagination and trying to realize them in digtal world. Students often love to indulge themselves in various acivities ranging from playing to building stuff, to management . These are nothing but their imaginative reach trying to make it real. These creativity are the most important one and the most beneficial in child development. Computers on other hand are meant for catching imagination and creating artificial reality, then why shouldn't we attach them both. We would be using computers digital approach to support child creativity. Children can play games, learn programming , build application, learn graphics and many other activities.

Use case scenarios :

Students can use this project for
# create a simple UI application with simple drag and drop widgets.
# they would be able to resize the widget, reorder them and associate some event handlers to the widgets.
# Programming support would be given for advanced students where they can test and improve their programming skills for beginners, a step-by-step instruction sets for introducing them in programming.
# We can go for sound support with gstreamer library, where we can interact the program with simple sounds, since children get attracted to sound more easily than text
# Help Manual to get started for students. Special care will be taken for information supplied, they would be concise and expressive.

This project also targets the developers, they can use our application to
# add / remove activity
# modify activity, Activity modules would be independent of architecture and easily modifiable to suit current needs.
# sugar bot support for unit-testing
# debugger integration with gui to facilitate debugging the activity.

We can associate various group activities among students to encourage them in developing environment.
Technologies I will be using are pygtk, XML parsers ( if sharing of information is required ) . Pygtk, gives a gtk libraries support which we can code them to interact with the enviornment and develop UI applications. XML communication would be required if there is need to transfer the information from one end to another. Some of key points would be :

# Primary aim would be to provide basic learning experience in UI application with minimal programming efforts.
# Secondary aim would be to increase Scope for development for future developers.
# Application would be built as simple as possible with highlighting and attractive features.
# Sharing of code over network, integrating of code in program directly.
# Exception handlers, should be interactive for users and should take minor decisions automatically.

==== Technical Approach ====

Below is the technical abstract for Marbles:
:[[Image:marbles-flowchart.png|left| Marlbes-development environment.]]

 
Here visual UI representations gives an option to select widgets, authoring tool will assist the users to place the widgets on frame and also do some prechecks on UI widget compatibility.Program generator then generates the optimized code based on UI types, positions and associates event handlers to the widgets. Views should be handled independently and it includes final checks on widgets too. History generation is being done side by side to facilitate recoveries if error occurs and finally, output generation ( both UI and code output ) . Code output from the software will be stored in specific directories or in database.

Database comes into picture while history creation with simple as undo/redo or more complex project development stages. Typically database would store the fields like

#Table: Widget
#*Fields: Widget id,name,label,icon, height, width, position,parent_container id ,visible,focus-type, param1,param2
#*Widget table will contain widget id , it's name,label,positional parameters, id to its paraent container, and other parameters specific to widget functionality like for checkbox we could have parameters like "default check". This table includes all type of widgets i.e. containers, menu, buttons, checkbox etc
#Events
#*Fields: Eventid, type,signalid, signal-handler,object,widget-id(foreign key),params
#*Events table will register the events associated with the widgets. Note that signal handler would be called as object.signal-handler() with parameters if necessary.
#Navigation-Views
#*Fields: Widget-id,pos-x,pos-y,col-span,row-span,padding,Expanding(boolean), shrink(boolean), colorfill(boolean), params
#*This gives option to handle view effectively. Options are id, postions, span space, padding space, expanding ( yes/ no ), shrinking (yes/no), color fill and other parameters. This table would be mainly responsible for generating views in desktop UI.
#Navigation-main
#*Fields: Widgetid,name,description,activate(boolean),children-id(foreign key),delete(boolean),params
#*This table will be the database of UI application and UI graphics can be straight generated using this table. This table would be overwritten with widgetids everytime, when an object is added to on VISUAL UI. this contains field like widget id, name desc, chidren-id ( widget that comes under it ) and other functional or positional parameters. delete column will help in faking delete option( more on this later ).
#*This table can also be shared in network and associated with other UI applications. Here XML messaging can be used with DOM/SAX parser support in this application.

'''Description'''

Initially, navigation-main row will be initiated with widget-id say 0 and delete will be false
When user drags an widget on canvas, new widget will be created and a new entry comes in navigation-main table. Similarly children-widgets are created and subsequent entries will be given in specific tables. In this way, a whole tree-view of UI application would then be saved in database.
For undo operation, navigation-row entry for "delete" can be set to true, similarly for redo operation, entry would be false again.

'''How output is generated'''

program generator will read navigation-main and widgets specified by user will be initiated with given options. Navigation-view will then be fetched and widgets will then be arranged according to view-instructions.
Code generated will be temporarily stored in files ( say /tmp) , can be permanent stored if user wants to save the UI-application.

'''Note'''

Special care will be given on debugging facility. since pygtk is used in UI application, sugar-bot integration would not be difficult to achieve. I will also try to include modules for sugar-bot debugging facility to facilitated direct unit-testing.

Q10. ''' 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.'''

Ans.
In summer, I plan to follow the following schedule:

#Preparation phase( Time : April 25 - may25 )
#*gathering requirements of the project
#*getting involved with Mentor in verifying and validating the requirements.
#*Architectural design / Pseudo code.
#*This phase, I would be communicating with people as much as possible, getting requirements and verifying with people or community. I would also go to the pre-releases of similar softwares to get prons and cons and trying to improve in our project development.I am sure to get community support on this very interesting project.
#Coding Phase ( Time: May 25- July1 { This phase would be subdivided to different phases } )
#*divisions for coding timeline
#* decide approach for programming
#* actual coding, testing accordingly
#* documenting code parallely
#* periodically sharing information with mentors and community members
#* This phase will include actual coding. Since I already knew the related technologies and familiar to sugar development process. I can devote more time to coding and thus improving the project at each phases. I will share doubts with community if occurs.
#Testing Phase ( Time: July7- July 25 )
#* full testing of system with different phases
#* use coverage analysis to know the redundance code and improving it further
#* fixing bugs if any
#* Last minute changes before final submission
#* finish any documentation steps if left.
#* After coding, this is the most interesting part for me. Past I have also worked on code coverage tools for python and I really like this efficency measurement whicha also helps a lot in improving run-time. I will go for different testing tools on program, Some tools I would like to go with
#*coverage or flegleaf tools for anlaysis. 
#*I will use boost algorithms to improve run-time if it comes under requirement.
#Finalizing phase / Revision ( Time: from August 1 to END.)
#* review of code/ algorithm
#* production of coverage reports, analysis, performance etc.
#* discussions on limitations of software and beneficials.
#* preparing final deployments for various systems. 
#* Documentation stuffs would go in this phase

Time line: Seems very little time to do so many things, but I will try to give the best from my side.

I have worked on variety of projects ranging from web application, mobile j2me midlets, Web server management( python project ) and desktop application. One of the interesting projects I worked on is "cross platform windows explorer" which I built in python using wxwidget, in which we handled the issues like portability, searching and UI designs. If I am not exagerating, that would not be wrong to say that I am a fast learner.

Believe me, I have that talent needed to build and design a complex system for customers. Below are some of the projects I worked on

* '''Shallow file browser''': cross platform browser
* '''Multithreaded multi media-server''' : A multithreaded cross platform media-server for streaming podcast or mulitimedia contents to mediadevices. It is currently being used by medicare services to stream health podcasts to the users.
* '''Mobile Softwares''': I had done some freelance work in mobile computation last semester. Major projects, I was associated with are Mobile Shopping, SRV navigation tool for medicare services (SRV is an open source hardware(robot) for education purposes).
* '''Web Development & Services''': I have been actively involved in web-development from past 1 year and used Ruby on rails and Django for development. Django, by far, was among my best tool for Web-UI applications.
* Minor projects on kernel implementation ( as a part of OS course ), Database managment projects and others.

''' My "Open Source" activites '''

* Check out the source code of shallow file browser at http://code.google.com/p/shallow-file-browser. Do check the snapshot of browser in action.
* Minute-Shell: Well, it's a part of my course project. I created a small program to emulate linux shell. This code is hosted at http://code.google.com/p/minute-shell/ .

=== Me and the community ===

Q11. ''' 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.'''

Ans. This project support children creativity and imagination. These small games, development activity will surely help them to become problem solvers, innovators, and creative thinkers. These activities will also help the children to develop many important skills that boost a child's learning and success.

Q12. ''' 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?'''

Ans. That would be a great idea to go with. I've been working in NGO for primary children education called "ASHA-KIRAN" in our college and it would a great learning experience for them. Here, in hyderabad, We have a language problem, they don't understand hindi, my mother tongue, and I don't understand, telgu ( local language ). So, I always use different activities to teach them like sound creation, drawing, Word dictionary, some local plays etc. I believe in case of language problems like India, We should teach the children as:

# Alphabet creation, as a drawing practice
# Sound, give alphabets some sound, try to echo them loudly, may be in funnier way.
# Try to associate meaning to words, here imagination comes into play. I use some stories behind words, or pictures
# Last, use them in sentence.

I can associate these features in my project and sugar lab can help us to provide technical equipments to teach children. We already have a good infrastructure in campus, so I will start using my project even in development stage with them and report the status to sugar community.

Q13. ''' What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?'''

Ans. I have been using open source projects for quite a long time and I know, we always get stuck with some problem may be installation, compiling, syntax error, many more but I guess this is where the interesting part begins and open source community comes into play. In my views, we always learn new things about the error/software if we ask doubts in community. So, if I ever get stuck on the project, I will raise my doubts in mailing lists, request clearifications in irc chat, write in blog or on some related community sites where I can get any assistant from.

Other assistant I am sure to get it from my seniors, they all have been participating in GSOC from past years and would love to assist me if need occurs.

Q14. ''' 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?'''

Ans. I love interactive with people and I will keep community members duly informed. I can try following things to work this out

* Chatting on IRC chat
* Mailing lists
* tracking specific person or related to the area personally via email.
* Posting queries on blog

=== Miscellaneous ===
[[Image:puneetgirdhar.png|thumb|right| Here is my Development environment.]]

Q15. ''' We want to make sure that you can set up a [[Development Team#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.'''

Ans. I am a fedora loving guy and installed sugar system on my fedora. I googled for the installation and successfully completed the following tasks
* Installed the system using yum packages. 
This is just double click installation like windows. But I could not find the development procedure for rpm packages. 

* Built using source. 
I used jhbuild to install and update the source code needed for the sugar development. I tested it by creating some activities given on wiki page of sugar lab and it was working fine. 
I've started exploring things and really looking forward for a good open source development. 

Q16. ''' Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.'''

Ans. As a child, I had a great interest in science and was more curious to know everything. One thing I would like to share is, When I was in 8th standard, I was more impressed by Einsten-theory "One theory for every theories" and still I am. I remember discussing my new science theories on unification of world and discoveries with my science teacher and which ofcourse he won't like and always got irritated, but what he always suggested me, is to read & analyze before coming to conclusions. This habit of me is still continuing. Now the views have changed, questions are different but thirst for knowing things is still the same. My teacher not only answers my query but it gives me a life time dose to approach for my problems.

Q17. ''' What is your t-shirt size? (Yes, we know Google asks for this already; humor us.)'''

Ans. medium

Q18.''' 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?'''

Ans. Just for introduction, I am pursuing my BTECH degree from IIIT Hyderabad. I had started using linux from past 2 years and since then I love every bit of it. I also have research interest and working on my research paper on "simulation of rigid blocks during earthquake". I am an
active coder in SPOJ and topcoder and have a strong python programming skills. I have also worked as an intern in california based company.
"buddibot" developing medicare services for elderly people. 
<nowiki> No matter if I get selected or not, but I love to continue with sugar community.I already registered myself in sugar bug reporting tool and trying to study source code. Please let me know how can I assist to open source community. </nowiki>
 
 

Thank You & Regards, 
Puneet.

Summer of Code/Application review notes

2009-04-05T21:28:56Z

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Summer of Code/Application review notes

2009-04-05T21:27:47Z

Homunq: /* yet more */

Summer of Code/Application review notes

2009-04-05T21:27:18Z

Homunq:

Summer of Code/Application review notes

2009-04-05T21:20:13Z

Homunq: /* Don't reinvent the wheel */

Summer of Code/Application review notes

2009-04-05T21:19:40Z

Homunq: New page: Thank you to everyone who applied for GSoC this year. Here are some comments: *Please try to watch your application's talk page, as well as the comments in google's web app, and respond a...

EduKT improvement proposal

2009-04-04T08:31:56Z

Homunq:

About you

1. Arturo Bolaños Victoria
2. dark.arturo@gmail.com
3. arturoblack
4. arturoblack
5. spanish
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.)

1. 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?
to improve my level of programming and contribute to the FLOSS

About your project

1. What is the name of your project?

1.
Edukt can mejorarce with the aforementioned option to drag and drop functionality and audio, but also can be add a function that controls the order in which images are drawn on the control so that you can put one over another Also be possible to add ocion of the resized images that pull to have better control on the program The basic idea is to take is to rebuild the ability to drag and drop addition of new features that give the program
of the features already mentioned.
2. 1 Week
study on the book to use for the project.
2 to 3 weeks
Presentation of the first step.
4 °
progress and implementation of
8 weeks
evidence o
12 weeks

3.
I have experience developing applications with GTK python using pygtk and glade
Managing images and text on graphical control, and management know the libreias of Pango and cairo.

[[Category:2009 GSoC proposals]]

EduKT improvement proposal

2009-04-04T08:31:18Z

Homunq: User:Arturoblack moved to EduKT improvement proposal

Keyboard shortcuts proposal

2009-04-04T08:09:22Z

Homunq:

Abstract:
Help to the user with the shortcuts representing those in the window, allowing fast actions and a better work.....

Content:

All you should put here is a link to your application on our wiki, such as http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/Student_application_template . If you consider any of the following information private, you can include it here instead; otherwise, just erase the following.

About you

1. What is your name?

Luciano Jesus Palomino Jauregui

2. What is your email address?

jesusjpj@gmail.com

3. What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?

jesusjpj

4. What is your IRC nickname?

LucianoP

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.)

Spanish

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.)

UTC / GMT - 5 h

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?

Localizate OpenOffice.org.
*Reference: neosergio@openoffice.org (Coordinador General OpenOffice.org Perú)

War Game Simulator Tarapaca-Peruvian Army.(Python, GTK y SQLite)
*Reference: alfonsodg@gmail.com (Asesor Tecnologico del Ejercito del Perú)

I contributed code to the base Ice3(Python)
* Reference: https://launchpad.net/~ice3-developers (Luciano Jesus/jesusjpj)

About your project

1. What is the name of your project?

Shortcut Helpers

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?

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.

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.

My experience developing Simulator Game Wars Tarapaca (which use Python and GTK), how close I am to implement the project with OLPC Sugar (The kids in my province are benefiting from OLPC) and ease of purchase that I have knowledge makes it a potential candidate to complete this project.

5. What is your t-shirt size? (Yes, we know Google asks for this already; humor us.)

medium

6. Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.

7. 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?

The children in my country and especially my department are among the beneficiaries of this project so I would put my bit and bring more functionality to Sugar for children to be more efficient with the use of this tool. That will be an additional stimulus for me.

[[Category:2009 GSoC applications]]

User:Jesusjpj

2009-04-04T08:08:21Z

Homunq: User:Jesusjpj moved to Keyboard shortcuts proposal: consistent with other GSoC proposals

#REDIRECT [[Keyboard shortcuts proposal]]

Keyboard shortcuts proposal

2009-04-04T08:08:20Z

Homunq: User:Jesusjpj moved to Keyboard shortcuts proposal: consistent with other GSoC proposals

Oficina

2009-04-03T21:55:26Z

Homunq: /* Miscellaneous */

=== About you ===

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

My name is Nathalia Sautchuk Patrício.

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

My email address is nathalia.sautchuk AT gmail DOT com.

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

My Sugar Labs wiki username is nathalia.sautchuk.

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

My IRC nickname is nathalia.

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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.)'''

My native language is Portuguese but I have an advanced level of English too.

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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.)'''

I am located in São Paulo, Brazil (GMT -3). I prefer to work after the lunch time until late hours in the night but it is not a problem to work in other periods.

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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?'''

Yes, I participated in some open-source projects before. Some of them were developed in university classes (they are in different stages of development) and they are hosted at Google Code:

* Alumini (http://code.google.com/p/alumini/): a conferences manager;
* Labsof2 (http://code.google.com/p/labsoft2/): a System Service Center and
* Pintassilgo (http://code.google.com/p/pintassilgo/): an image gallery.

I participated in other open-source projects when I was an intern at LSI-USP (Integrated Systems Laboratory at University of São Paulo):
* Jogo do piano (http://code.google.com/p/jogodopiano/): a music game for XO and
* Oficina (http://code.google.com/p/oficina/): a paint activity for XO (later incorporated as official activity in builds).

I have just started two new open-source projects at university:
* Labsoftinfra (http://code.google.com/p/labsoftinfra/): an application for PDA to manage the classroom equipments and a web application to supervise the university stock. It has been developed for a course named Software Engineering Laboratory 2 and
* FEBRACEV (http://github.com/nathaliaspatricio/febracev): my capstone project and it will be a Virtual Science Fair.

The main open-source project that I have participated was the development of Oficina (Paint Activity) for Sugar: http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/oficina. I developed this project for about six months (between 2007 April and 2007 September).

My profile pages for those projects are:

* Google Code: http://code.google.com/u/nathalia.sautchuk/ and
* GitHub: http://github.com/nathaliaspatricio.

=== About your project ===

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

The name of my project is “ Programmable Brushes for Oficina”

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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?'''

Oficina is one of the Paint Activities for Sugar. It has a lot of tools like brushes, eraser, forms and text. The objective is refactoring the Oficina code and make a common base where tools can be plugged. The current available tools will use this base. With this, kids can put the tools that they want, including their own brushes.

In Turtle Art Activity there already is a way to plug a python code to add new block's functions. The idea is add a similar feature to Oficina. Sugar has already a python editor called Pippy. Using this kids can developed or edit your own brush and import your custom code into Oficina using the Pippy button.

One example of a tool code (nowadays it is the current brush):

def brush(self, widget, coords, last, size = 5, shape = 'circle'):
widget.desenha = False
if(shape == 'circle'):
widget.pixmap.draw_arc(widget.gc_brush, True, coords[0], coords[1], size, size, 0, 360*64)
if last:
widget.gc_brush.set_line_attributes(size, gtk.gdk.LINE_SOLID, gtk.gdk.CAP_ROUND, gtk.gdk.JOIN_ROUND)
widget.pixmap.draw_line(widget.gc_brush,last[0]+size/2,last[1]+size/2,coords[0]+size/2,coords[1]+size/2)
widget.gc_brush.set_line_attributes(0, gtk.gdk.LINE_SOLID, gtk.gdk.CAP_ROUND, gtk.gdk.JOIN_ROUND)
if(shape == 'square'):
widget.pixmap.draw_rectangle(widget.gc_brush, True, coords[0], coords[1], size, size)
if last:
points = [coords, last, (last[0]+size,last[1]+size), (coords[0]+size,coords[1]+size)]
widget.pixmap.draw_polygon(widget.gc_brush,True,points)
points = [(last[0]+size,last[1]), (coords[0]+size,coords[1]), (coords[0],coords[1]+size), (last[0],last[1]+size)]
widget.pixmap.draw_polygon(widget.gc_brush,True,points)
if last:
x = min(coords[0], last[0])
width = max(coords[0], last[0]) - x
y = min(coords[1], last[1])
height = max(coords[1], last[1]) - y
widget.queue_draw_area(x, y, width+size, height+size) # We add size to avoid drawing dotted lines
else:
widget.queue_draw()

Other important functionality is that children can share their brushes since Sugar 0.84 already allows users to take any item in the Journal and send it to anyone else. There are already some available tools for default but kids can modify or delete this.

Oficina is developed in Python using PyGTK library and the bucket tool is implemented in C language. I will use these technologies in my project.

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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.'''

My initial planning to develop the project is:

May 23 - June 5
* Study the Oficina code and his architecture (remember some things because it has a lot of time since I worked with it)
* Study a similar feature in the Turtle Art Activity

June 6 - July 7
* Development of the common base

July 8 - July 12
* Preparation of the alpha release
* Development of some example brushes for demonstration

July 13
* Mid term evaluation
* Release the alpha version

July 14 - July 23
* Tests on XO
* Ask for bugs and improvements in community

July 24 - August 3
* Correction of the bugs

August 4 - August 13
* Ask for feedback about the correction activity
* Preparation for the beta version release

August 14 - August 22
* Release the beta version

This is rough plan to the work. I like Agile methodologies and I will reschedule the activities when it is necessary.

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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.'''

The main open-source project that I have participated was the development of Oficina (Paint Activity) for Sugar: http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/oficina. Because of that I have a good knowledge about the activity, the language Python and the library PyGTK (that will be used in the project). Moreover, I already know the process of developing a open-source project and in particular the process adopted by Sugar Labs. Yet I know how to use the tools like Git and Trac (that it can be used in the project) and I participe in the Sugar Labs lists (iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, devel@lists.sugarlabs.org) for some time.I have a good base in software engineering since I have studied this at university and I am in the fifth year (the last year of undergraduation course). I have a good experience at software development (with different languages and technologies) since I work in the area for over 3 years.

=== You and the community ===

1. '''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.'''

My answer:

This project is important for Sugar Labs community since a Paint Activity like Oficina is one of the core activities in the Sugar and it has a good and improved activity of this type is necessary for the adoption by schools and kids. Before children can read words they learn another expression ways and the painting is one of the most important way. In my proposal the main idea is to turn Oficina a more flexible expression environment. This would allow greater freedom for children' expression since they could create their own brushes. Moreover, this idea has a interdisciplinary characteristic because children can work the artistic side and also learn how to programming. When I participated in deployment of XO here in Brazil we had a couple of discussions on what the children wanted and what we didn't have. I thought they needed more brushes and tools. Especially, the power to create them on our own, which is missing.

Manu Sheel Gupta (manu@laptop.org) - Oficina maintainer:

This project will help meet one of the most important goals of Sugar Labs and free software - "to make it simple for the user to extend activities". This is very important as free software communities build on top of each others' work to build learning eco-systems. Collaboration, and building of such an eco-system in absolutely essential for the sustainability of the project and the communities. I believe that giving the power to the user to develop brushes of their choice is what a paint activity is supposed to do. And, this feature will help shape this idea, and put it in the right context, which has been missing since day one of any paint project. I wish to see this proposal getting selected.

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2. '''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?'''

Yes. In 2007 I was an intern at LSI-USP (Integrated Systems Laboratory at University of São Paulo) and I worked at UCA project (In english One Computer per Student) sponsored by the Brazilian Federal Government. In this project the laboratory was responsible for a pilot in a school at São Paulo testing the XO netbooks. I followed what happened in the pilot of this school because sometimes I had to go there. So I have a close contact with people that works at this school and I suggest to deploy there because teachers have experience in projects like that.

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3. '''What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?'''

If I get stuck on my project I will try to find the solutions on the internet (in some site, blog or forum). If this does not work I will ask someone in the Sugar IRC channel. If anyone can not help me I will ask in some discussion lists like the Sugar Labs lists or Python lists. If anything works I will send an e-mail requesting a help for my mentor before the planned meeting.

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4. '''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?'''

I will create a page about Oficina in the Sugar Labs wiki that I intend to put the status of project. Also I will post frequently in a blog that I can create for the project and in my current blog (http://nathaliapatricio.blogspot.com). If I have any problems over the course of the project I will try to find the solutions on the internet (in some site, blog or forum). If this does not work I will ask someone in the Sugar IRC channel. If anyone can help me I will ask in some discussion lists like the Sugar Labs lists or Python list

=== Miscellaneous ===

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.

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.

1. '''We want to make sure that you can set up a 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.'''

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2. '''What is your t-shirt size? (Yes, we know Google asks for this already; humor us.)'''

My T-Shirt size is Medium.

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3. '''Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.'''

A great learning experience came from the incentive of reading Brazilian Children's books when I was in primary school. Nowadays I can learn about everything that I want or which I am curious about. I think it is possible today because of this incentive that I have had. This makes me more participative in my learning process and interested in learning technologies.

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4. '''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?'''

When I was working at LSI-USP with XO netbooks I (and another people of the team) did a initial usability study of Oficina with some kids. We had an short paper published in 2008 about that at IEEE ICALT (IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies).

The paper calls "Testing the OLPC Drawing Activity: an usability report" by Alexandre Antonino Gonçalves Martinazzo, Nathalia Sautchuk Patrício, Leandro Coletto Biazon, Irene Karaguilla Ficheman and Roseli de Deus Lopes. It is available in the link: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/ICALT.2008.200.

[[Category:gsoc]]

Talk:Oficina

2009-04-03T21:54:48Z

Homunq: New page: I'm very sorry, we cannot consider this application because you did not submit it on Google's web application before the deadline. I made every attempt to let students know this, I'm reall...

I'm very sorry, we cannot consider this application because you did not submit it on Google's web application before the deadline. I made every attempt to let students know this, I'm really sorry if you did not get the word. [[User:Homunq|Homunq]] 21:54, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Talk:KDEEdu

2009-04-03T15:48:44Z

Homunq: /* Please be more specific */ new section

First off, thanks for making the effort; your proposal is interesting, and it would be great for Sugar if you can accomplish your underlying goal.

However, I am not an expert on gtk/qt issues, but honestly I think that idea, as you present it, is a bit of a stretch. If you want this proposal to be ready by the deadline, you will have to devote some real time to hanging out on IRC and getting help with it. As a start, I think you should consider including QT in the activity itself. It is AFAICT around 20 MB of bloat, which is unfortunate, but it will get you there so much faster. So your project would be something like

1. get qt to work without a package manager, from inside activity directory

2. use qgtkstyle to get it to look superficially sugary

3. reprogram it to be compatible with sugar - toolbar, rainbow security, autosave, dbus, etc. This is the real work of sugarizing. It is better if you can avoid forking the application - if it provides its interface via widgets which you can rearrange via another layer you put above. You would have to research whether this is possible.

4. document the above so it's easy to do with other kdeedu activities.

5. (optional) It would be cool if you could figure out some strategy to avoid repeatedly downloading 20MB of QT, yet still rely on just .xo packages without real package or dependency management.

Steps 1 and 2 should be relatively simple. I have no good idea how hard step 3 would be.

Again, unless you pester the sugar-devel mailing list and/or IRC, your proposal will probably not be ready in time. If you do do so, you may want to keep an open mind and ask about exploring other project ideas, either instead of this one or in addition to it; though you will have to decide relatively quickly, as you do not have a lot of time to get a proposal (or proposals) into shape.

[[User:Homunq|Homunq]] 18:23, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

== Please be more specific ==

Talk about some of the specific UI choices, and any changes in save behavior, to make your app fit into sugar. Include some of this analysis in your schedule - when would you imagine you'd be working on what?

Talk:Summer of Code/2009/Groupthink

2009-04-03T06:06:49Z

Homunq: New page: OK, well, I'm drunk at the moment, so don't expect a lot of coherence. But the point I want to make is that, you've heard me say it before, I think that the sync/async collaboration, the d...

OK, well, I'm drunk at the moment, so don't expect a lot of coherence. But the point I want to make is that, you've heard me say it before, I think that the sync/async collaboration, the differential versioned filesytem, and the undo stack, is really the same issue. If you can make a network protocol that does three-way diffs using the same data that is in the versioned filesystem, and keeps XML compliant to the DTD, anyone can use it for any data and they get versioning, collaboration, and undo/redo for free and sugar rules the world. [[User:Homunq|Homunq]] 06:06, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

KDEEdu

2009-04-03T02:51:29Z

Homunq: /* You and the community */

Please apply also in [http://socghop.appspot.com melange, google's web app]; if you do not apply there '''before''' April 3, we will not be able to accept your application. Also, use the "discussion" link above to see our questions/suggestions for you. (If you want to get email when we change that, you can use "prefs" and "watch" above).

{{TOCright}}

====About you====

* What is your name?
Yazen Ghannam
* What is your email address?
yghannam7388@gmail.com
* What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?
yghannam7388
* What is your IRC nickname?
yghannam7388
* 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
* Where are you located, and what hours do you tend to work? (We also try to match mentors by general time zone if possible.)
Orlando, Florida, USA. GMT -4

I can work in the mornings or evenings, from 7am to 2pm or from 5pm to 11pm.
* 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?
I am a new member of the Ubuntu Bugsquad.
https://launchpad.net/~yghannam7388

====About your project====

* What is the name of your project?
KDEEdu
* 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?
There are a number of educational applications available on the K Desktop Environment. Sugar, having education in mind, would like to use these applications. The only problem is that these applications are written for KDE using the Qt toolkit, while Sugar uses the GTK+ toolkit. Therefore for Sugar to have access to these applications they must be rewritten using the GTK+ toolkit.

Trolltech, the developer of the Qt Toolkit, has included QGtkStyle into Qt 4.5. The QGtkStyle class provides a widget style rendered by GTK+ (http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qgtkstyle.html). QGtkStyle will allow programs written in Qt to integrate better into desktop environments that use GTK+. Using QGtkStyle as an alternative to recoding an entire program from Qt to GTK+ will dramatically speed up the process of bringing KDEEdu applications to Sugar.

The only drawback to using QGtkStyle is that the Qt libraries will still be needed to run KDEEdu applications on Sugar. This may pose a problem for hardware with less resources such as the OLPC XO-1. After porting a KDEEdu application to Sugar and finding it stable, I will try to reduce the number of Qt libraries by removing ones that are not needed by the application.

One experience that was lacking in my early education was the use of computers to solve math problems. You could always use a word processor to type a report or the internet to find a map for geography but you always needed to solve math problems out my hand. Therefore, I would like to "sugarize" a mathematics application from KDEEdu, probably KAlgebra since it is general purpose and has graphing capabilites. I believe this will help all students, but especially those who may find it hard to visualize math concepts.

* 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.

May 23 Start Work; Add QGtkSyle to KDEEdu application.

May 30
Begin to "Sugarize" the application. This entails making the application compatible with Sugar and its features.

June 6
Continue "Sugarizing"/debugging

June 13
Continue "Sugarizing"/debugging

June 20
Finish "Sugarizing"/debugging

June 27
Package Application and dependencies/test on various platforms

July 6-13 Midterm Evaluation

July 13
Begin reducing Qt library/debugging

July 20
Finish reducing Qt library/debugging

July 27
Package Application and dependencies/test on various platforms

August 3
Organize and proofread documentation

August 10 End Work

* 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.

This summer I will change my major from Electrical Engineering to Computer Engineering. The change is happening due to my increased interest in programming and open source software. My interest in software started when I took an introductory course on C programming. In this course I successfully developed programs to act as automatic teller machines, inventory databases, etc. I came to realize how useful programming knowledge is in our time. Later in my school career I took a course on Computer Organization. This course was based more on hardware but we used programming to understand the concepts. Our project for this course was to develop a program to act as a MIPS processor emulator; this emulator needed to successful process different instructions based on the MIPS datapath given to us. This would be my first experience with a large and complex program.

Eventually, I realized that most of my programming knowledge is based on developing engineering/scientific command line applications. So earlier this year I set a goal for myself to learn to use graphical toolkits. In order to learn the two major toolkits used in my experience, Qt and GTK+, I decided to help port applications between the two toolkits. This was to become my summer project, until I heard about Google Summer of Code and the KDEEdu idea from SugarLabs.

I have already decided to dedicate myself to learning the skills needed for this idea over the summer. Nonetheless, I feel that working in a structured way with professionals would be extremely beneficial. My dedication to learning these skills and help from my mentor and the community will make success for this project a reality.

====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.

With the completion of this project, Sugar Labs will have a documented procedure to port and deploy applications that are part of the KDE Education Project. This will include about twenty applications, and others that are built using Qt but are not part of KDEEdu. This will save Sugar activity developers from having to write applications that may already exist but are not built for Sugar or that use GTK+.

From homunq: KDEEdu is one of the most important set of open source educational programs. Having a demonstrated way to get those working in Sugar would help fill a number of important holes in our activity line-up, and would also help with making impressive demos.

* 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?

I live in large metropolitan area with a school district that is making large budget cuts. The best way to deploy Sugar in the area would be to contact Orange County Schools, the local school district, and offer to setup Sugar on computers within one of the local schools. Hopefully, in the end, the local district will see benefit in switching all of its student-used computers to Sugar or another open source system. I could contact a local school if Sugar Labs is willing to deploy in my area.

* What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?

I would look for answers with other developers. This project is a crossroads of many greater projects (Sugar, KDE, Qt, GTK+) and so I will attempt to get answers any way I can. That includes the fundamental Google search, followed by contacting developers on IRC and mailing lists. This task of inter-compatibility between graphical toolkits is so important to open source development that there should be some great advice available.

* 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?

I will be active on the IRC channels and mailing lists. If possible, I'll create a blog page and link it to one of the mailing lists or RSS feeds. This way I can post on my progress everyday (or more) and everyone will be able to follow.

====Miscellaneous====
* 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.
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* What is your t-shirt size? (Yes, we know Google asks for this already; humor us.)
Large
* Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.
I have always enjoyed hand-ons learning. One experience that I enjoy was making ice cream in school. The process was very simple: take the ingredients (milk, sugar, flavoring, salt) and put it all in a plastic bag. Next place the bag in a coffee can filled with ice. Now roll the can on the table (or wherever) for a while, maybe it was half an hour to an hour. Eventually, the ingredients in the bag will solidify and you will have ice cream. I think this was the first time that was able to see and participate in the process of making something I loved.
* 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?

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Talk:Interactive Worksheets

2009-04-02T18:18:25Z

Homunq:

How would your proposal differ from just packaging a web view of a locally-run copy of Sage, as a sugar activity? (If the answer is "not at all", that's fine, but you should say that.) [[User:Homunq|Homunq]] 21:09, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

I'll take a look at Sage. Maybe I should be thinking about working with them instead. [[User:Mabbikeel|mabbikeel]] 22:05, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

OK, but they're heavy-duty math folks. I doubt that sugarizing is a priority for them, it could be for us if you convinced us it would be a good experience for kids. Sage is awesome, btw. [[User:Homunq|Homunq]] 18:17, 2 April 2009 (UTC)