Hi,
I am sure most of us know about the annual event Google Summer Of Code. Like past years The KDE Project participated this year even. Actually I had posted about the event when it was kicked off this year.
Anyways, results were declared sometime back and KDE got some 40[1] [2] slots from Google. But for me the bigger and happier news is that a lot of Indians participated this year and quite a few them submitted good proposals. There were 216 eligible proposals in all that were submitted to The KDE Project.
And the news that is even more happier and bigger is that one of the chosen candidates is from our ``Amchi Mumbai" even - Sharan Rao. Some of us surely must have seen him / met him at LUG meets or otherwise. Sharan has been an occasional contributor to K3B since last year. Sharan's proposal about Umbrello was happily selected by mentors - I say this because I was present at the meeting and I noticed how proposals were judged strictly by core KDE devs. I think, I have mentioned before how being a ``actual" contributor helps in such cases because they already have seen your code. And more importantly, a good proposal does it job really well. Sharan's proposal was really good, more importantly something he thought all by himself and was completely out of the box and mentors didnot even put forth that in the stock ideas. All he did was found a cool application and found what it was lacking and made a good proposal around it.
To be fair to other candidates, I must admit most of the 40 accepted proposals were just like that of Sharan. And all such proposals just passed with flying colours even if there was a discussion/debate on pros and cons of the proposals. If there were only disputes, it was due to certain conflicting proposals or duplicate proposals for the same idea, in which case the most suitable candidate was selected which ofcourse was measured by a scale called as - "who show most enthusiasm and maybe has submitted most patches or proposal was very very strong". It was taken care that proposal was worth atleast 30+ hours per week of work and was even informed to student if he had other ideas. Anything less and the candidate was questioned. I was sort of happy and pleasantly surprised watching mentors calling a spade a spade or some such metaphor. And since I have spoken to personally ( or heard about ) quite a few candidates this year, the common thing was their enthusiasm and willingness - be it Mike Authur, Marcus Hanwell or Sharan or anybody else.
Anirudh Ramesh (based in Singapore) and Piyush Verma (Delhi based) are the other Indians in the list. Good luck to you both. Do well. Also heartiest congratulaltions to other members of the list who have been selected as well for other projects. Good wishes to all of you.
Sharan, dude you rock! Congratulations and loads of good wishes. And one guy whom I really need to thank is our beloved admin - Anurag - who was instrumental in helping me get introduced to ( and meet ) Sharan ( - my favourite twit, is what I like to call him ) sometime Feb '06 or so. He has done really well for himself and learnt a lot without any other expectations and more importantly has contributed some lines of code to Free Software and I am sure he will do much much more.
[1] http://dot.kde.org/1176336589/ [2] http://code.google.com/soc/kde/about.html
Cheers!
Pradeepto
On 13-Apr-07, at 8:10 AM, Pradeepto Bhattacharya wrote:
And the news that is even more happier and bigger is that oneof the chosen candidates is from our ``Amchi Mumbai" even - Sharan Rao
in other news, tejaswi of hyderabad lug got selected for django - way to go teju!
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On Friday 13 April 2007 08:38 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves cobbled together some glyphs to say:
And the news that is even more happier and bigger is that oneof the chosen candidates is from our ``Amchi Mumbai" even - Sharan Rao
in other news, tejaswi of hyderabad lug got selected for django - way to go teju!
There are few other Indians into SoC '07 too (some of them are on GLUG-BOM) -- Sayamindu Dasgupta (GNOME), Debarshi Ray (Fedora), Rakesh Pandit (The GNU Project), Ria Das [aka Ms. Kushal Das] (Fedora), Some-IRC-Junkie-From-A-Village (BBC Research), etc.
Best wishes to them too :)
Regards, BG
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Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
Some-IRC-Junkie-From-A-Village (BBC Research), etc.
LOL.. for those who still wonder whose that, its him! its him! its him! ;)
http://code.google.com/soc/bbc/appinfo.html?csaid=2C0F3F5F495389D2
On 4/13/07, Parthan parth.technofreak@gmail.com wrote:
Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
Some-IRC-Junkie-From-A-Village (BBC Research), etc.
LOL.. for those who still wonder whose that, its him! its him! its him! ;)
http://code.google.com/soc/bbc/appinfo.html?csaid=2C0F3F5F495389D2
i thought he had passed out of college!.. didnt know he is still hanging there to get SoC chances ;-)
Karunakar
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On Friday 13 April 2007 08:41 PM, G Karunakar cobbled together some glyphs to say:
Some-IRC-Junkie-From-A-Village (BBC Research), etc.
LOL.. for those who still wonder whose that, its him! its him! its him! ;)
http://code.google.com/soc/bbc/appinfo.html?csaid=2C0F3F5F495389D2
i thought he had passed out of college!.. didnt know he is still hanging there to get SoC chances ;-)
I am not hanging around intentionally. I am graduating this June and that makes me eligible for SoC '07.
Regards, BG
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On 13-Apr-07, at 4:31 PM, Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
Ria Das [aka Ms. Kushal Das]
one of the reasons why there are so few women in public foss forums is neanderthal MCP type comments like this. Apparently a lot of males are unable to believe that women can do things on their own - realise also, that many people have taken help in formulating proposals. I have helped people by giving ideas and helping to frame the proposal well. Also by pointing out what the mentors would accept. And some people i have helped have been accepted. Since they were male, no one raised an eyebrow. Indian women *can* and do contribute - or are you of the opinion that suparna's husband does her work for her?
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On Saturday 14 April 2007 07:41 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves cobbled together some glyphs to say:
Ria Das [aka Ms. Kushal Das]
one of the reasons why there are so few women in public foss forums is neanderthal MCP type comments like this. Apparently a lot of males are unable to believe that women can do things on their own - realise also, that many people have taken help in formulating proposals. I have helped people by giving ideas and helping to frame the proposal well. Also by pointing out what the mentors would accept. And some people i have helped have been accepted. Since they were male, no one raised an eyebrow. Indian women *can* and do contribute - or are you of the opinion that suparna's husband does her work for her?
The comment was not meant to be derogatory and I apologise if it sounded so. I didn't mean that Kushal did all the work for her, just that she is known to us as Kushal's girl-friend (that too because Kushal talks about her quite a lot on IRC & his blog). That is all. I apologise once again to Kushal and Ria if that sounded like I was pulling their legs.
Regards, BG
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On 14-Apr-07, at 8:57 PM, Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
eyebrow. Indian women *can* and do contribute - or are you of the opinion that suparna's husband does her work for her?
The comment was not meant to be derogatory and I apologise if it sounded so. I didn't mean that Kushal did all the work for her, just that she is known to us as Kushal's girl-friend (that too because Kushal talks about her quite a lot on IRC & his blog). That is all. I apologise once again to Kushal and Ria if that sounded like I was pulling their legs.
in the context of the discussion on IRC, the statement sounded ambivalent at the least. Me thinks that in matters like this one has to go out of the way not to sound sexist. Please note, I dont doubt your intentions - it is just that we have to be careful
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On Sunday 15 April 2007 07:15 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves cobbled together some glyphs to say:
eyebrow. Indian women *can* and do contribute - or are you of the opinion that suparna's husband does her work for her?
The comment was not meant to be derogatory and I apologise if it sounded so. I didn't mean that Kushal did all the work for her, just that she is known to us as Kushal's girl-friend (that too because Kushal talks about her quite a lot on IRC & his blog). That is all. I apologise once again to Kushal and Ria if that sounded like I was pulling their legs.
in the context of the discussion on IRC, the statement sounded ambivalent at the least. Me thinks that in matters like this one has to go out of the way not to sound sexist. Please note, I dont doubt your intentions - it is just that we have to be careful
I agree. Thanks for pointing it out.
Regards, BG
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There are few other Indians into SoC '07 too (some of them are on GLUG-BOM) -- Sayamindu Dasgupta (GNOME), Debarshi Ray (Fedora), Rakesh Pandit (The GNU Project), Ria Das [aka Ms. Kushal Das] (Fedora), Some-IRC-Junkie-From-A-Village (BBC Research), etc.
Not just a few, I am proud to say that we have about 60 Indian students in GSoC this year; including 3 from my college. I sincerely hope that atleast 30 of these students will stick around to become permanent contributors to their respective projects.
A non-comprehensive list (may have missed out the NRIs): Name, Mentor, Project. (Quite a few Indian mentors out there too):
1) Jasleen Singh, Arockiasamy Mohanraj, Design and implementation a better document inspector 2) Ravinder Reddy, Katherine Marsden, Convert Derby tests to JUnit and fix Derby bugs 3) Baishampayan Ghose, Michael Philip Sparks, Extending the web- server component in Kamaelia to make it useful as a general purpose web-server component 4) Anant Narayanan, Devon H. O'Dell, Alternative Implementations of 9P: PHP and JavaScript 5) Tara Gilliam, Michael Philip Sparks, Visual Editor for Creation & Composition of Shard Components 6) Arun Raghavan, Joe Shaw, A Xesam-based D-Bus interface for Beagle 7) Dawn Thomas, Rick Riolo , Urbance: An agent-based approach to Architectural Design 8) Nitin Gupta, Dr. Tarique Sani, AJAX Support in Coppermine with an API 9) Thejaswi Puthraya, Simon Blanchard, Implementing Check Constraints on Models 10) Neil Joshi, Eugene Lazutkin, Pseudo 3-D Charting 11) Amila Sampath, Theodore Serbinski, Designing a new core theme for Drupal 12) Prashant Deva, Philippe Ombredanne, New Eclipse update manager 13) Udayan Kumar, Martin Connor, Porting Etherboot drivers to gPXE 14) Akhil Kumar Meshram, Pierrick Brihaye, eXist eXtension to teXt Search 15) Debarshi Ray, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay, An offline package update/ installation facility for Pirut. 16) Ria Das, Jeff Sheltren, Publication of all man and info pages for each release through a web interface 17) Vivek B, Yutaka Niibe, Designing an educational microprocessor and led display using the same (in verilog). 18) Attilio Rao, Roberson, Rewriting lockmgr(9) 19) Swati Goyal, Matthew John Toseland, Improving Search in FreeNet 20) Srivatsan, Florent Daignière, DOS resistant link level encryption using JFKi key management protocol 21) Uday, Jack Bates, Web based Image Manipulation 22) Ramnath R Iyer, Dirk Haun, Web services API for Geeklog 23) Raghavendra Narasimhan V, Christoph Egger, OpenGL support for GGI 24) Vikram Kumar V B, Christoph Egger, Improve XGGI by implementing some X extensions. 25) Srijak Rijal, Sam Vilain, Gittorrent Server and Peer 26) Sayamindu Dasgupta, Federico Mena-Quintero, Extending the lockdown framework in GNOME and making it even more deployment friendly 27) Imran Patel, Xan López Saborido, Integrating Epiphany Bookmarks and Browsing History For GNOME-wide Access 28) Rakesh Pandit, Nagarjuna Gadiraju, Graphical navigation/ representation of knowledge base; and interfacing with other knowledge systems. 29) Chintan Agarwal, Derek Atkins, QIF Importer Rewrite 30) Krishna Kishore Annapureddy, François Revol, Implement a precache algorithm along with aging policy for the file system caches 31) Avi Mehta, Rastin Mehr, Implementation of mootools in Joomla! 1.5 framework 32) Shivasharan Rao, Jonathan Riddell, SQL Code Generation and Enhanced Entity Relationship Models for Umbrello 33) Piyush Verma, Andreas Pakulat, Python Support for KDevelop4 34) Anirudh Ramesh, Cornelius Schumacher, Bridge the gap between KitchenSync and OpenSync 35) Sharon Myrtle Paradesi, Robert Kaye, Using Collaborative Filtering to generate Relationships between artists for MusicBrainz 36) Nidhi Rawal, Sebastien Pouliot, Gendarme: The problem finder 37) Mayank Jain, David Jesús Horat Flotats, Moodle Voice 38) Udit Sajjanhar, Petr Skoda, Secure RSS Feeds 39) Srirang G Dooddihal, Dan Mosedale, Implementing cross-session download resume 40) Kunal Kumar D Jain, Dietrich Ayala, Places: Indexing Visited Pages 41) K.Harishankaran, Nagappan, Firefox automation & Tinderbox integration 42) Sumantra R. Kundu, William Studenmund, A Framework For Enforcing QoS Inside the NetBSD UVM 43) Deepank Gupta, Werner Almesberger, Ad hoc communication via Bluetooth 44) Sashikanth Raju S Damaraju, Paul Biondich, Clinical Data Visualization Tools 45) Rahul Murmuria, William Sommerfeld, Porting Racoon2 to OpenSolaris 46) Amit Vyas, DongInn Kim, Globus/Condor Package for OSCAR 47) Siddharth Angrish, Simon Lin, Learning a Context Free Grammar by reading Corpus in a given language 48) Swanand Janardan Deodhar, Shashank T. Date, Framework for ETL and Data mining operations in Ruby 49) Shobhit Jindal, Pavel Tankov, SSH Support in SIP Communicator using JCraft SSH2 Java Implementation 50) Hiran V, Hussain K.H, Unicode Standard Malayalam Font 51) Antony Francis Maliakal, Anivar A Aravind, Akshara OCR 52) Shyam K, Santhosh Thottingal, Basic Voice Recognition System for malayalam 53) Mobin M, Praveen A, MalluTux 54) Jinesh KJ, Suresh P, Comprehensive malayalam input system for GNU/ Linux 55) Sourav Pal, Jean-Paul Saman, RTSP Streaming Server in VLC 56) Nageswara Rao M, Abraham Moolenaar, Integrating vim editor with eclipse 57) Ishaan Dalal, Monty Montgomery, Sinusoidal coding for Ghost 58) Vandan Parikh, Ludovic Dubost, XWiki Offline 59) Nikhil N, Baiju Muthukadan, Run Zope 3 using Python 2.5 60) Gartheeban Ganeshapillai, Kaustubh Srikanth, Auto Completion of links
Best Regards, -- Anant
2007/4/13, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org:
in other news, tejaswi of hyderabad lug got selected for django - way to go teju!
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing got 5 slots ( http://code.google.com/soc/smc/about.html ) and we have 8 students from Kerala participating this time.
Unicode Standard Malayalam Font by Hiran V, mentored by Hussain K.H Akshara OCR by Antony Francis Maliakal, mentored by Anivar A Aravind Basic Voice Recognition System for malayalam by shyam k, mentored by Santhosh Thottingal MalluTux by Mobin M, mentored by me Comprehensive malayalam input system for GNU/Linux by jinesh kj, mentored by suresh p
Other students selected from Kerala
Vivek will be working for the Free Sofware Initiaitive of Japan on a project to improve usage of Icarus Verilog.
Nikhil N will work for the Zope Foundation; he will try to make Zope 3 run on Python 2.5.
Dawn Thomas from IIT Kharakpur (another Malayalee) will be working on Urbance: An agent-based approach to Architectural Design with Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS), University of Michigan. He application with SMC was also selected but he chose to work with CSCS.
A great Summer of coding ahead.
Cheers Praveen
On 13-Apr-07, at 8:59 PM, Praveen A wrote:
Dawn Thomas from IIT Kharakpur (another Malayalee) will be working on Urbance: An agent-based approach to Architectural Design with Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS), University of Michigan. He
he?
2007/4/14, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org:
On 13-Apr-07, at 8:59 PM, Praveen A wrote:
Dawn Thomas from IIT Kharakpur (another Malayalee) will be working on Urbance: An agent-based approach to Architectural Design with Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS), University of Michigan. He
he?
A typo should have been "His application".
Cheers Praveen
On 16-Apr-07, at 1:28 PM, Praveen A wrote:
he?
A typo should have been "His application".
i meant that 'dawn' is a girl's name
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