User:Nandaja/GSoC 2013 Automated Rendering Testing

Personal information

 * Name: Nandaja Varma
 * Email Address: 
 * Freenode IRC Nick: gem
 * University and current education ː BTech Computer Science, Calicut University (NSS College palakkad)
 * Blog URL: nandajavarma.wordpress.com

Why do you want to work with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing?
Since I came to know about the activities of SMC (That would be by the starting of my second year studies at college), I wanted to be a part of this community and make some significant contributions to it. I see this as a great opportunity for it. Would like to do the same through any other means possible, as well.

Do you have any past involvement with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing or another open source project as a contributor?
Yes, I have recently started contributing to SMC's Gnome localization team. I make contributions to Debian community as a packager, mainly packaging Ruby gems for Debian. I also got involved in digitalization works with Malayalam Wikigrandhashala recently.

Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations?
No, I did not.

Do you have other obligations between May and August? Please note that we expect the Summer of Code to be a full time, 40 hours a week commitment ?
I have no other obligations whatsoever between the proposed months. I will be able to make this 40 hours a week commitment GSoC.

Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing after the GSoC 2013 program, if yes, which area(s), you are interested in?
Yes, Most definitely. I would like to continue my contributions with the localization works as translation is one of my area of           interests. I would also like to make major contributions to SMC's rendering fixing related works.

Why should we choose you over other applicants?
I have understanding of the rendering engine, Harfbuzz's working and I have played with a couple of scripts which basically prints the glyph index of a particular text in a particular font. As of implementing my project idea, I have good knowledge in C programming language and have good reading and writing skills in Malayalam. This would definitely help me in creating the list of base glyph words for this project. Also I also have quite a clear knowledge on test rendering stack and its constituent modules.