Summer of Code/2014/sugar cordova
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About me
My name
Puneet Kaur
What is your email address?
puneet.gkaur@gmail.com
What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?
Puneet Kaur
What is your IRC nickname on irc.freenode.net?
puneet_kaur
What is your first language? (We have mentors who speak multiple languages and can match you with one of them if you'd prefer.)
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.)
Delhi, India Work time are not fixed, work as I get time from my regular coursework
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?
Did contribute a little to the sugar project.A small contribution [1] .It was indeed a great experience.
About your project
What is the name of your project?
Cordova container for sugar platform
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?
This project is aimed at building a new platform on cordova for sugar. It shall help us to build activities for mobile using html,js and css and the interaction with the device's native api can be provided by invoking the javascript libraries. These libraries provide device specific native backing code.We can access the camera functions and many others using javascript alone.So basically the mobile apps can be built in js rather than native code which implies that knowing the native code to built an activity and to interact with device functionality is no longer a neccesity.The technologies required to complete this project are javascript,python programming knowledge and sugar built, cordova platform for developing upon.
What is the timeline for development of your project? The Summer of Code work period is from May 19 - August 22; 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 (27 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.
I have already worked on sugar before, configured it and been with it for a few months, so I think I can develop on it.Same goes for cordova as well.Have developed apps on phonegap cordova.Hence I felt I would be in a position to help out in this project. Previously apart from sugar and phonegap I have done projects on C, php and java.
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?
Get in touch with other people of the community who can help.I think I would get some help from other experts in the community.Ask questions over IRC channel.Ask question in other doubt forums.Try searching on my own. Get in touch with people outside the community who can help. For the cordova related help, will ask people from the cordova community for help and do the brainstorming on my own. Try possible methods.Debug it.Analyze why it went wrong or what should be done based on my previous experience.
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'll blog about the progress and ask my queries to my mentor, ask on IRC or over the mailing list
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.
Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.
Drawing, Painting and Art. I loved to draw things.Sketch them,paint them in different colors.Drawing basically used to provide a way to unlimited creativity.It used to present a simple blank paper upon which we could lay our imagination in the way we wanted.It new no boundaries and that's what made me fall in love with art.