Summer of Code/2016/Redesign and recreate suugarlabs web appearance
About Me
- What is your name?
Venketesh Mahapatra
- What is your email address?
mahapatra.venketesh@gmail.com
- What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?
Venky18
- What is your IRC nickname on irc.freenode.net?
venky18
- 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 is Hindi. My language of communication is 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.)
I live in Rourkela,India. The Time Zone is UTC+5:30 .I can work from 11 AM to 04 AM UTC but it's adjustable.
- 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 have contributed to open source projects like Freecodecamp, JULIA ,mifosx. github profile
About my 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?
Redesign and recreate Sugar Labs webappearance
- 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?
I am redesigning sugarlabs main website, translate and activities websites planet to improve their web appearance.
- For a modern website these here are the things that are important:
- Colors and typography - a constant color scheme and a typography should be used across all websites so that it will create a unified view
- Images - good quality images should be used and should be scaled so that loading time can be decreased.
- Navigation - The navigation should be clear. A user should know where he/she is going.
- Grid based layout - we should use grid based layout for so that columns and boxes feel balanced.
- Responsive - It is now common to access web site from other devices so website must be responsive.
- Loading time – Enabling compression, optimizing css, reducing number of plugins, minifying resources and minimizing HTTP requests will improve loading time.
- SEO
Website Development process:
- listing the website pages and check which are needed and which are not.
- UX & UI problems to be listed of the cebsite urrentwebsite(Source :first time users and community)
- solutions to be discussed with the project mentor
- designing mockup
- improving things upon receiving feedback and start coding
- complete the website show it to people for testing(mainly kids and new users)
- improving things again after receiving feedback
- complete the website
for example i have listed the problems and solutions of the website https://www.sugarlabs.org/
| Elements | Problems | Solutions |
|---|---|---|
| screenshots | long scrolling | slideshow |
| activities | too colorful and no contrast | contrasting color and card layout to be used |
| What is sugarlabs | again? | should be visible at first glance i.e. upon landing |
| “ "It's An Education Project" mailing list ” , | contact us? | social help and mailing list under community |
| navigation bar not present | have to scroll all the way to the top | navigation bar |
mockup
I will be focusing on the above things while designing a website. If possible then I will add openid connect to the wiki login page. I will be using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Jquery for web pages and flexbox(?) or bootstrap(?) or foundation( ?) for grid layout.
- 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.
| WEEK | TASK |
|---|---|
| 23 April - 7 May |
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| 8 April - 22 May |
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| 23 May - 29 May | finish sugarlabs main website
after getting feedback improve the website start coding for planet.sugar labs website |
| 30 May - 6 June | finish coding planet.sugarlabs website
feedback and improve start working on translation system |
| 6 June- 12 June | finish translation system
wiki improvements |
| 13 April - 19 June | buffer week |
| 20 June- 26 June | Midterm Evaluation |
| 27 June - 3 July | host the website. show it to various people. get the reviews, learn SEO
start working on remaining websites(small improvements) |
| 4 July - 10 July | Test the website on various platforms and check if it breaks somewhere
finish remaining websites |
| 11 July - 17 July | Analyze the reviews make improvements
add support for all platforms (in case somthing breaks,this should have been taken care of while coding) check the new google analytics 360 suitehttp://www.google.com/analytics/360-suite/#?modal_active=none |
| 18 July - 24 July | add google analytics or piwik analytics (opensource)
check if website is indexed well follow google webmaster guidelines https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6001170?hl=en&ref_topic=4631146 for SEO add relevant meta tags and improve the SEO |
| 25 July - 31 July | set up a google search console account
analyze the data protect the website from spam https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6001244?hl=en&ref_topic=4631146 |
| 1 August - 7 august | go through all the website codes take care of code so that it will be maintainable in future (like adding descriptive comments) |
| 8 August - 14 August | polishing the UI and checking each and every element and finalising all websites |
| 15 August - 21 August | buffer week |
| 22 August - 29 August | Final Evaluation |
- 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.
Me 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.