Educational Toolkit

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

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

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.

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.
2. What is your t-shirt size? (Yes, we know Google asks for this already; humor us.)
3. Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.
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?