Summer of Code/2014/AnaBalica/Social Help

About me

• What is your name?

Ana Balica

• What is your email address?

ana.balica@gmail.com

• What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?

AnaBalica

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

anasova

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

I know 3 languages: Romanian, Russian and 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.)

Originally I am from Republic of Moldova. My current location (also during the summer) is Prague, Czech Republic (UTC +1). Normal working day starts at 8AM UTC and ends at 7PM UTC.

• 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?

Open-source contributions:

• moin2.0 - change subscription mechanism and other small enhancements
• sugar bugfix - 1 and 2

About the project

• What is the name of your project?

Social Help

• 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?

Social Help is going to be a system wide mechanism to access a range of social channels like IRC and forums. In order to access a context-dependent window with available communication channels, the user should press <Shift><Alt><c> (c stands for chat or connect). The user can choose between being connected to IRC (via Chat activity) or post a question to a forum (Discourse, Moot or some other reasonable modern forum software).

• 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.