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====About you====
====About you====
Q.1: '''What is your name?'''
Q: '''What is your name?'''
A: Geza Kovacs
A: Geza Kovacs
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Q.2: '''What is your email address?'''
Q: '''What is your email address?'''
A: gkovacs -at- mit -dot- edu
A: gkovacs -at- mit -dot- edu
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Q.3: '''What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?'''
Q: '''What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?'''
A: gkovacs
A: gkovacs
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Q.4: '''What is your IRC nickname?'''
Q: '''What is your IRC nickname?'''
A: gkovacs
A: gkovacs
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Q.5: '''What is your primary language? (We have mentors who speak multiple languages and can match you with one of them if you'd prefer.)'''
Q: '''What is your primary language? (We have mentors who speak multiple languages and can match you with one of them if you'd prefer.)'''
A: English
A: English
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Q.6: '''Where are you located, and what hours do you tend to work? (We also try to match mentors by general time zone if possible.)'''
Q: '''Where are you located, and what hours do you tend to work? (We also try to match mentors by general time zone if possible.)'''
A: USA, either Pacific or Eastern time zones. I tend to work anytime between 8AM to midnight.
A: USA, either Pacific or Eastern time zones. I tend to work anytime between 8AM to midnight.
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Q.7: '''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?'''
Q: '''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?'''
A: My two most successful open-source projects to date (with over 2 million downloads apiece) are Wubi and UNetbootin, both of which I launched during my high school years. I have also worked on some other minor projects for which I have open-sourced code, most of which can be found around my launchpad page if they are of particular interest; however the major projects I am currently working on as part of undergraduate research (mostly related to audio and video analysis in the context of emotion recognition based on facial and speech features) are unfortunately currently proprietary (but we expect to open-source it in May).
A: My two most successful open-source projects to date (with over 2 million downloads apiece) are Wubi and UNetbootin, both of which I launched during my high school years. I have also worked on some other minor projects for which I have open-sourced code, most of which can be found around my launchpad page if they are of particular interest; however the major projects I am currently working on as part of undergraduate research (mostly related to audio and video analysis in the context of emotion recognition based on facial and speech features) are unfortunately currently proprietary (but we expect to open-source it in May).
====About your project====
====About your project====
Q: '''What is the name of your project?
A: A Framework for multimedia-rich conferencing with autodiscovered peers on the local network
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Q: '''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?'''
A: This project has two components:
1. Develop an audio and video conferencing layer that can be integrated into applications such as sugar-chat-activity, and integrate such functionality into sugar-chat-activity. The layer would initially support the audio and video extensions to Jabber (Jingle), as well as the audio-video chat protocol utilized for local autodiscovered chatting. This would include, for example, widgets for video and audio chat, and the associated underlying backend code. This would be developed on top of Telepathy and Farsight2's libraries.
Rationale:
2. Develop a user-friendly means to autodiscover and perform multimedia chat with nearby peers, without requiring the usage of a central server. This would be part of the Neighborhoood View.
Rationale:
Programming Languages: Since sugar-chat-activity uses Python, I will likely be using it for this project as well. The Telepathy and Farsight2 libraries will be used for implementing the multimedia chat feature.
# What is the timeline for development of your project? The Summer of Code work period is 7 weeks long, May 23 - August 10; 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 (July 6-13); the last steps always take longer than you think, and we will consider cancelling projects which are not mostly working by then.
# What is the timeline for development of your project? The Summer of Code work period is 7 weeks long, May 23 - August 10; 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 (July 6-13); 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.
# 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.