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| + | ==About Me== |
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| + | ===My name=== |
| + | SHIRSH ZIBBU |
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| + | ===My email address=== |
| + | zibs.shirsh@gmail.com |
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| + | ===My Sugar Labs wiki username=== |
| + | zhirzh |
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| + | ===My IRC nickname on irc.freenode.net=== |
| + | zhirzh (on webchat.freenode.net) |
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| + | ===My first language=== |
| + | Hindi is my native language. I am also comfortable with English. |
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| + | ===My location and Working hours preference=== |
| + | I live in Rajasthan, India. I find the following working hours comfortable. |
| + | * '''UTC(''18.30'' - 00.30)''' => IST(00.00 - 06.00) |
| + | * '''UTC(04.30 - 10.30)''' => IST(10.00 - 16.00) |
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| + | ===Past experience and Reason to participate this summer=== |
| + | Working in an open-source project is something new to me. I have been working with javascript for the past two years, but always worked on small to medium scaled projects - most of them for college activities, fests etc. I enjoyed the time I was working on projects and I felt the experience is invaluable. |
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| + | But recently, I have felt the need to work on something on a larger scale. The reason I want to work for an open-source project is multi faceted. Primarily, it is the exposure and experience. Working with a team of friends is different than working for/with an organization. And that difference can only be felt by working for one. |
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| + | Secondly, the idea open-source resonates with my thinking. I respect the fact how open-source allows people all around to help projects that matter to them. The concept removes the need to ''re-invent the wheel'' whenever someone requires a preexisting tool with a little tinkering. |
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| + | And finally, the sheer joy. I get ecstatic when I see my projects taking shape and when they are finally done. It is for that feeling that I want to work for SugarLabs for the upcoming summers. |
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| Quoting the project description on the [https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2016 'projects page'] | | Quoting the project description on the [https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2016 'projects page'] |
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− | The goal of this project is to port some famous Sugar activities into HTML5/JavaScript Sugar Web activities that will be include into the Sugarizer Package. Three activities will be ported: | + | The goal of this project is to port some famous Sugar activities into HTML5/Javascript Sugar Web activities that will be include into the Sugarizer Package. Three activities will be ported: |
| # '''Moon''': Moon is a Moon phase viewer, includes Lunar phase information and eclipse data. | | # '''Moon''': Moon is a Moon phase viewer, includes Lunar phase information and eclipse data. |
| # '''Speak''': Speak is a talking face. Anything you type will be spoken aloud using the speech synthesizer, espeak. | | # '''Speak''': Speak is a talking face. Anything you type will be spoken aloud using the speech synthesizer, espeak. |
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| + | === === |
| + | It is for the following reasons that I am confident that I will successfully finish the project. |
| + | * Experience of 2 years (and counting) with the Javascript. |
| + | * No other commitments in the summer. |
| + | * College stays off during summers (May to August). Can devote as much as 10 hours per day. |
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| + | I have also been working on a prototype for Moon activity since March 5, 2016. |
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| + | https://zhirzh.github.io/sugarizer-activity-moon/ |
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| + | Some of the projects that I have worked on: |
| + | * [https://github.com/zhirzh/bits-time/tree/gh-pages/scream-o-mania Scream-o-Mania] |
| + | * [https://github.com/zhirzh/bits-time/tree/gh-pages/sinatra-rtc Sinatra RTC - WebRTC primer project] |
| + | * [https://github.com/zhirzh/cab-me website design for CabMe] |
| + | * [https://github.com/zhirzh/tis-alchemy 'Tis Alchemy - clone of Little Alchemy] |
| + | * [https://github.com/zhirzh/bitsacm-new New website for BITS ACM] |
| + | * [https://github.com/zhirzh/just-javascript-things Motion detection with vanilla JS] |