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+== Music Blocks Widget Improvements ==
+=== '''About You''' ===
+'''What is your name?'''
+My name is Ritwik Abhishek. I am 3rd year undergraduate student at Indian Institute of
+Technology Guwahati.
+'''What is your email address?'''
+ritwikabhishek@gmail.com
+'''What is your Sugar Labs wiki username ?'''
+A-ritwik
+'''What is your IRC nickname on irc.freenode.net?'''
+a-ritwik
+'''What is your first language?'''
+My first language is Hindi. English is my language of communication and I am fluent in it.
+'''Where are you located, and what hours (UTC) do you tend to work?'''
+I live in Guwahati, India (UTC+5:30). I usually work from 5AM (UTC) to 2PM (UTC), But these
+timing can vary depending on the need of project or mentor. I will remain active on IRC
+during my working hours.
+'''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 new to the world of open-source. I like the idea very much that anyone can contribute
+to a project of his/her choice and help to develop products which are comparable or better
+than proprietary products. I chose Sugar Labs because Education is very close to my heart
+and Sugar Labs works to provide kids equal opportunity to learn, irrespective of their
+background.
+=== About your project ===
+'''What is the name of your project ?'''
+Music Blocks Widget Improvement
+'''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?'''
+My project involves 3 separate parts
+) '''Fix widget bugs''' - There are several widgets in Music Blocks. As reported on github
+repository  <nowiki>https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/labels/widget</nowiki> , there are around
+bugs reported currently. I think there would be another 10 bugs related to widgets which
+would be reported during summers. I am planning to remove 2-3 bugs per day. Most of the bugs
+involve pitch-time matrix, tempo, timbre, filters, rhythm ruler. Most of bugs are easy
+and they would be fixed in around 10 days. Other bug reports involve adding some
+functionality and are actually enhancements.
+) '''Pitch tracker -''' It involves making a widget which would record sound, process it to find
+fundamental frequency for every small segment, and then choose blocks (whose frequency
+is closest to fundamental frequency of each segment), and then use these blocks to code
+the recorded sound in Music Blocks language.
+I chose to use fundamental frequency because it can be calculated in real time and is easy to
+calculate as well. For calculating fundamental frequency I will be using autocorrelation as
+feature vector. Autocorrelation is correlation of a signal with its delayed copy.
+There is a webapp written in javascript which calculates autocorrelation, whose code we
+can use as it has MIT license. The repository is  <nowiki>https://github.com/cwilso/PitchDetect/</nowiki>
+If the fundamental frequency is not very strong then we will use fourier transform to get the
+frequency domain representation of the signal, then we will find frequencies at which the
+amplitude is higher. The smallest of these frequencies will be fundamental frequency. For
+example in figure given below, fundamental frequency is shown by yellow arrow.
+) '''Integrating software keyboard in Music Blocks''' -  The keyboard currently works fine but It
+looks very different than rest of Music Blocks. I would like to work on design part of the
+keyboard and change its design in following ways
+- Currently the keyboard is fixed in size and it can not be moved, I would change it and
+it would be available in at least 2 sizes and its position on the screen could be
+changed.
+- Currently the toggle button to minimize/show for keyboard is on bottom right
+corner, I would change it such that It remains on the top left of keyboard just like
+others.
+- Making the edges of each key rounded, so it looks similar to other blocks
+- Although actual keyboard is black and white, there should be option to change colors
+of keys.
+I think we should measure time for which a certain key was pressed, for that we need to
+measure starting and stopping time. I have not finalized how to deal with this, and would
+finalize this while going through the code of keyboard and after having detailed discussion
+with my mentor.
+'''Timeline'''
+Was uploaded in main proposal.
+'''Convince us, in 5-15 sentences that you will be able to successfully complete your project'''
+'''in the timeline you have described.'''
+I think I will be able to successfully complete the project because I am a hard working and
+goal oriented person. I will be giving around 40-50 hours per week to the project. I will work
+on every day of the week. I have no other commitment this summer. I am willing to learn
+technologies that I don’t know and work hard to finish the project.
+Some of the relevant projects done by me are described below
+'''Audio class histogram''' - For a given audio segment we had to find out which part of audio
+contains speech, music and silence. For this we had used 5 feature vectors. It was done in
+MATLAB. Experience from Audio class histogram project would help me to complete pitch
+tracker this summer. To know more about visit  <nowiki>https://ee320.github.io/</nowiki>
+'''Contribution''' - I have started contributing to music blocks. I have submitted a few bugs, and
+am trying solve bugs as well.
+<nowiki>https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/pull/1170</nowiki>
+<nowiki>*</nowiki> will be adding more pull requests soon
+'''Basic Website using Flask framework'''- Made a basic website using Flask framework. The
+website has log in/out feature. I am proficient in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. To know more
+visit -  <nowiki>https://github.com/a-ritwik/flask-intro</nowiki>
+To see smaller projects that I have done please visit my github page
+<nowiki>https://github.com/a-ritwik</nowiki>
+=== '''You and the community''' ===
+'''If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs'''
+'''community?'''
+My Answer - My project has 3 parts, I have explained their impact one by one1- Fixing existing bugs of different widgets in Music Blocks - There are currently several
+widgets in Music Blocks, and fixing existing bugs from them will enhance user experience,
+remove improper system behavior, and make Music Blocks more robust.
+- Pitch tracker – After its completion, we can give input from microphone and use pitch
+tracking to generate Music Blocks code. So after this we do not have to manually code for
+each and every song, It could be done with good enough accuracy by the pitch tracker. As
+Devin Ulibarri has suggested It could be a GCI task to choose a song, sing it, and then submit
+both recording and Music Blocks code.
+- Integrating software keyboard with Music Blocks- This would be implemented as a widget
+which on key press will give corresponding output as chunk. Currently the keyboard works
+fine but it looks very much different than the theme of Music Blocks. The project will create
+unity in design of keyboard with Music Blocks.
+'''Walter’s Answer -'''
+The most pressing need for Music Blocks right now is stability, so addressing the widget bug
+list would be an important contribution. Further, widgets for pitch tracking and keyboard
+input would provide some basic scaffolding for beginners, which would lower the barriers to
+entry, also important if we want to grow the user base.
+'''What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?'''
+If I am stuck and my mentor is not around, I will search on the web and stackoverflow for
+solution. If that does not work I would ask the question on IRC and Sugar-devel mailing list
+to get help from other members of the community who contribute to Music Blocks. Some of
+my college seniors also contribute to open-source, I can get help from them as well.
+'''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 write a blog, where I will post updates of my progress as well as difficulties that I faced
+weekly. I will post to Sugar-devel mailing list after completing important milestones and I
+will also attend meetings which are held on #sugar-meeting.
+=== Miscellaneous ===
+'''Link to screenshot of Sugar development environment'''
+My project does not require Sugar development environment, but I have set it up in virtual
+machine.
+'''link to a pull request or merge request you have made'''
+<nowiki>https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/pull/1170</nowiki>
+<nowiki>*</nowiki> I will be adding more pull requests soon
+'''Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.'''
+I was weak in mathematics when I was a kid, although I used to attend all the classes. When
+the teacher solved questions on blackboard, I just copy them to my notebook mindlessly.
+Once I scored very badly in Mathematics exam. I then talked to the teacher and he asked me
+to try solving questions before seeing answer. I followed his advice and started solving
+exercise questions and asked for help only after I had tried enough. This helped and I
+became good in mathematics. This was a very good learning experience for me.
+'''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?'''
+Sugar Labs is doing very good work to provide equal opportunity to students all over the
+world to learn, but one thing that I have noticed is that our community need to have better
+outreach to prospective contributors, this would make us grow fastly as an organisation.
+After summers I would like to work with Sugar Labs team to increase our outreach.
+'''Category''' – Music Blocks GSoC 2018 application

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