Summer of Code/2016/SugarJournalSaveOption UtkarshT

About You

What is your name?

My name is Utkarsh Tiwari, and I am a 2nd year undergraduate student at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India.

What is your email address?

My email address is iamutkarshtiwari@gmail.com

What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?

My Sugar Labs wiki username is iamutkarshtiwari

What is your IRC nickname on irc.freenode.net?

My IRC nickname is iamutkarshtiwari

What is your first language? (We have mentors who speak multiple languages and can match you with one of them if you'd prefer.)

My first language of communication is Hindi and I am also fluent in English.

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

Location: Uttar Pradesh, India

Time Zone: UTC + 5:30 (India Standard Time)

Working hours: I usually tend to work in afternoons (1PM-5PM) and nights (9PM-2AM). I will try to be mostly active when most of the mentors come on IRC.

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 Open Source and have only recently begun contributing to open source projects. I am also the coordinator of the OSDC (Open Source Developers Club) and have delivered talks/workshops on open-source technologies like Pygame, Using Git, JavaFx(Swing) many more.
I have been contributing to The Processing Foundation since December 2015 and have fixed couple of bugs and introduced some new features to their Java and Javascript based IDEs.
Here are the links to the PRs I pushed->
PDE(Java)-> Features + Bugs
PDE(P5.js)->Bug

Why SugarLabs?

I am in love(kind of obsessed! :D) with the work being done here. It feels great seeing my activities being downloaded by kids and children from all around the world. Nothing makes me more happy than knowing that the code I write is serving the learning of millions of children.
It would be a great experience to work on a project and introduce some nice feature which will make collaborative learning more easy and enjoyable! I started contributing to Sugar Core since this February. I had already developed 6 Sugar activities and I am constantly mantaining them.

Here are the links to my Sugar activities->
Sonic Jump
Stick Hero
Flappy Birds
2 Cars
Make them fall
Buttons and Scissors

About your project

We are looking for projects that will enhance the Sugar Learning Platform. Please consider how your project will have impact on children learning.

What is the name of your project?

Sugar Journal save option

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 is the timeline for development of your project? The Summer of Code work period is from mid-May to mid-August; 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 (end of June); 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

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

• We want to make sure that you can set up a development environment before the summer starts. Please do one of the following:
  • 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 "logout".
  • Send us a link to a pull request or merge request you have made on a Sugar or Sugar activity bug.

It's normal to need assistance with this, so please visit our IRC channel, #sugar on irc.freenode.net, and ask for help.

• If you plan to work on Sugar-Web projects we want to be sure that you're familiar with web technologies, so:
  • Clone the Sugarizer repository
  • Using instructions here develop your first Sugar-Web activity
  • Send us a screenshot of your new activity executed in Sugarizer

• Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.
• 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?

Please include the category tag at the bottom of your page the Category tag for 2016 GSoC applications.