User:Balasankarc/GSoC 2013 Application Balasankar C: Developing Malayalam Calendar Support

Personal Details

 * Name : Balasankar C
 * Education : Pursuing B.Tech - 3rd year
 * College and University : Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kalady, Ernakulam - MG University
 * Email Address : 
 * Telephone : +91- 94 95 23 41 90
 * Blog : www.balasankarc.comule.com
 * FreeNode IRC Nick : balasankarc
 * Anything related to Malayalam and Computers attract me. I like the idea of having my computer displaying stuff in my native language and SMC is doing the same. Moreover it is an open source initiative so that I can also participate in that.
 * I have been working with SMC for about 1 year in its Gnome localisation team. I am currently working as reviewer in the same.
 * First time participation in GSoC
 * Obligations during may and august - Educational constraints - But will be able to do 40h/week
 * Will ofcourse continue contributing to SMC even after GSoC. SMC is the primary concern whereas GSoC is only secondary. GSoC or not, will continue my journey with SMC. I am interested in localisation and internationalisation of different packages.
 * I am quite thourough in C, C++, C*, Visual Basic, VB.NET and ASP.NET. I also have experience in Python, Java, JS and jQuery. I am quite fluent in reading, writing and typing malayalam. I am also a reviewer of SMC's Gnome Localisation Team and am an administrator of Malayalam Wikisource. My technical as well as literary background definitely proves me good.

Proposal
Malayalam Calendar support for KOrganizer
 * I intend to add a Malayalam (Kollavarsham) Calendar to KOrganizer where it is displayed along with the Greogiran and Saka Calendar.
 * Users should be able to do all calendar activities like marking to-do, setting up remainders etc on the basis of Malayalam Months and Dates. I always dreamt of doing this and as I often say, my aim is a day when we set up remainders for each 'Ekadashi'.
 * Have experience in the field of astronomy and algorithms related to calendar and panchangam development, algorithm formulation.
 * I intend to use C as backend for the algorithm.
 * I believe I am eligible for this project due to my knowledge in the astronomical field, mathematics and algorithm formulation and I am also familiar with GUI programming. There were several works done in this area, but most of them are database-centric and hence applies only between a specific range of time. I intend to do it in an algorithm-centric way so that it will be efficient always.
 * Some softwares I have created includes an image to DJVU converter (written in python), a tax calculator for college teachers (written in VB), a library management software (work in progress) and an agricultural information website.
 * I have communicated with Praveen A and he gave me guidance in finding existing systems trying to accomplish this project.