Summer of Code/2015/WebCollaboration Redesign

About You

What is your name?
Abhishek Jairath

What is your email address?
jairath.abhishek@gmail.com

What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?
ABHISHEK JAIRATH

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

What is your first language?
English

Where are you located, and what hours (UTC) do you tend to work?
New Delhi, India(UTC +5:30). Usual working hours 5:30 - 9:30 and 16:30 - 20:30 (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?
No I haven’t exactly contributed to a open-source project but I did add some functionalities to Ghost, an open source bogging platform, while working for a startup. Besides I have been using a lot of open-source stuff for so long and would love to give back to the community.

About your project

What is the name of your project?
Re-design collaboration with web technologies

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?
The project aims at redesigning the existing collaboration model for web activities. It would allow sugar web activity developers to incorporate collaboration between activities irrespective of platform. The technologies used by the project will javascript, web sockets and some other js libraries if required. The current architecture is here Working on the socket.io server which provides the serverside base for collaboration Developing

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.

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.
Martin Abente Lahaye : Collaboration is a fundamental piece of Sugar's pedagogic approach, a big part of the learning experience happens while sharing. Writing activities in a different language won't change that. So we must provide a collaboration framework to sugar web-activity developers.

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.

• 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 Catagory tag for 2015 GSoC applications.