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* Apply in [http://socghop.appspot.com melange, google's web app] '''before''' [http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/timeline April 9]
 
* Apply in [http://socghop.appspot.com melange, google's web app] '''before''' [http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/timeline April 9]
 
* Check the image requirements (Restart). Make changes to code and upload a new image if necessary.
 
* Check the image requirements (Restart). Make changes to code and upload a new image if necessary.
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* Expand the timeline to outline my work beyond GSoC to the end of my thesis.
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* comment on the talk page of other applications
    
====About me====
 
====About me====
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; What is the name of your project?
 
; What is the name of your project?
 
:Adaptive UI Framework for Different Age Groups
 
:Adaptive UI Framework for Different Age Groups
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====TODO====
      
; 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?
 
; 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?
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*Week 11: Hook it up with the Adaptive core.
 
*Week 11: Hook it up with the Adaptive core.
 
*Week 12: Finish work, core review and commit.
 
*Week 12: Finish work, core review and commit.
*Week 13: Document work. Blog. Prepare a presentation summarizing my work and experience (for the UBC CS department).
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*Week 13: Document work. Blog. Put up a presentation summarizing my work and experience so far.
 
*Sign-off
 
*Sign-off
 
   
 
   
; 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.
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; Convince us, in 5-15 sentences, that you will be able to successfully complete your project in the timeline you have described.
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====You and the community====
 
====You and the community====
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; 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?
 
; 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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Here is an excerpt from my 'Statement of Purpose' which was submitted as part of my application to the university (in Dec 2008).
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<!-- Delete this paragraph and the following one when preparing your application. -->Note: you will post this application on the wiki in the category [[:Category:2009 GSoC applications]]. We encourage you to browse this category and comment on the talk page of other applications. Also, others' comments and your responses on the talk page of your own application are viewed favorably, and, while we don't like repetitive spam, we welcome honest questions and discussion of your project idea on the mailing list(s) (primarily [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel sugar-devel] for technical issues and [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep It's An Education Project] for educational issues) and/or [[IRC]].
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  After Ph.D. ?
 
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    After obtaining my Ph.D., I would like to
The NeL project has some good general recommendations for [http://dev.ryzom.com/projects/nel/wiki/GSoC2009WritingProposals writing proposals]. We endorse them all; although Sugar is (regrettably) not test driven development (yet - your project could change that!), we encourage GSoC code to include tests.
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      *work on selected Open source projects; esp. those aimed at children, for e.g OLPC project's Sugar
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      **build a team of volunteers and mentor them in areas of usability
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      *work as a professor in a research oriented university or
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      **as a research scientist in a usability lab
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      *work with children in making computer a viable part of their creativity tool-set.
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