User:Ershad/GSoC2013 Malayalagrandham

2013-04-25T18:22:52Z

Ershad: /* Tell us about something you have created. */

'''Google Summer of Code 2013 Proposal for Swathanthra Malalayalam Computing'''

==Personal Information==
Email Address: ershad92@gmail.com
Telephone: +91 8089133362
Blog URL: http://ershadk.com
Freenode IRC Nick: ershad
University and current education: BSc Computer Science, Bharathiyar University

=== Why do you want to work with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing? ===
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is contributing much to Indic languages and language computing, it's great to be a part of it.

=== Do you have any past involvement with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing or another open source project as a contributor? ===
Yes. I've contributed to Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, MediaWiki and a couple of other open source projects.

=== Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations? ===
No, I've not participated in GSoC programs before.

=== Do you have other obligations between May and August ? Please note that we expect the Summer of Code to be a full time, 40 hour a week commitment ===
It will be possible for me to work 35-40 hours / Week.

=== Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing after the GSoC 2013 program, if yes, which area(s), you are interested in? ===
I've been contributing to SMC, I will definitely continue doing it along with maintaining the Malayalagrandham application after GSoC. My interested areas include Language Computing, SILPA and translation.

=== Why should we choose you over other applicants? ===
I've been a FOSS enthusiast for years and have been continuously trying to contribute to it. GSoC will be a great platform for me to contribute more.

This proposal is meant for Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data project. I'm planning to do it in Ruby on Rails in which I'm well versed and have more than 1 year of experience. I also have a track record of doing end-to-end hobby projects in Ruby on Rails.

And right the at moment, I've done its backend and wrote scripts to import data from old database. It will be easy for me to build upon that.

== Proposal Description ==
=== An overview of your proposal ===
Malayalagrandham.com is a web application to store and process bibliography data of books. Currently it has a growing database with information of more than 50K books. The current live application was built a few years before and it lacks features such as crowd sourcing, RESTFul API, Feedback, Visualization and so on. The proposed project aims at building a more advanced and contributor/developer friendly version of Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data application with the aforementioned features. The new version of Malayalagrandham will be a crowd sourced Internet Book Database. It will have features to export data to various formats such as MARC21 and MARCXML.

The application essentially will have the following interfaces.

1. Interface for the task force
<blockquote>
Task force is a group of people with administrative privileges. These admins should be able to select the right submission from crowd sourced data and they should be able to moderate any the contents in the web application. They should also be able to visualize existing data.
</blockquote>
2. Interface for contributor
<blockquote>
Any person should be able to become a contributor by signing up using his/her email ID. Contributor should be able to add new bibliography information and post comments/reviews through the feedback system. He should also be able to upload cover photos of books.
</blockquote>
3. Interface for Publisher
<blockquote>
Publishers should be able to add bibliography information of the books they publish. They should also be able to generate QR code that links to specific book's page.
</blockquote>
4. Interface for Librarian
<blockquote>
Librarians should be able to update the location of the books in Malayalagrandham.
</blockquote>
All the data in Malayalagrandham will be open to Public. But users need special permission (admin privileges) to modify the existing approved data. Application will have full support for localization using i18n libraries of Rails.

=== The need you believe it fulfills ===
Apart from the bibliographic information it provides, Malayalagrandham would help people to locate books easily. Building a new version this application has the following benefits:

# It will be easy for users to contribute new data
# REFTul API makes the application developer friendly. The API will enable developers to write client applications across platforms.
# We will have a centralized location of information of many books in a breadth of languages.
# It will be easy to perform complex searches to locate specific books.
# The feedback feature attracts more engagement/dicussion from users.
# ISBN based book discovery will be possible
# QR code for each book would help the user to locate its Malayagrandham page

=== Any relevant experience you have ===

I've industrial experiencing in building and deploying Ruby on Rails web applications. I also have learned about MARC21/MARCXML formats and ISBN.

=== How you intend to implement your proposal ===
Technology stack is Ruby on Rails web framework with MySQL backend. We will be using the following Open Source gems and modules :

# devise - User Authorization
# ruby-marc - Read and Write in MARC Format
# marc21-utils - MARC Validation
# ferret - Text Search
# Jbuilder - DSL to configure JSON API
# rqrcode - QR code generator
# Twitter Bootstrap - Front end Framework

=== A rough timeline for your progress with phases ===
==== Jun 17 - Jun 30 ====
<blockquote>
Resume the development on the existing application I wrote for this project and design the remaining parts of the software.
</blockquote>

==== Jul 1 - Jul 15====
<blockquote>
Implement the application logic as per the design and start focusing on API
</blockquote>
==== July 16 - Jul 31====
<blockquote>
Implement the basic API and get the functionalities working in the back end
Test the built features and fix bugs for mid term evaluation
</blockquote>
==== Aug 1 - Aug 20====
<blockquote>
Build advanced features such as crowd sourcing support, data export and QR support
</blockquote>
==== Aug 21 - Sept 5====
<blockquote>
Implement basic UI for Task force, Publisher, Contributor and Librarian.
Focus more on UX, get the minute details working properly.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 5 - Sept 12====
<blockquote>
Control the access to the site pragmatically and do a security auditing.
Polish the interface and all features should be working by now.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 13 - Sept 27 ====
<blockquote>
Review code, fix bugs and get ready for final evaluation.
</blockquote>
=== Any other details you feel we should consider ===
It will be great if we can sync Malayagrandham with Wikisource. We can also link to Public Domain books in Malayagrandham pages.

=== Tell us about something you have created. ===
# [http://quizgrid.com QuizGrid.com] is a social network I built using Ruby on Rails and MySQL. More details are [http://ershadk.com/blog/2013/01/21/announcing-quizgrid-dot-com/ here]
# [http://myfest.in Myfest.in] is a college fest aggregator I built using the same technology stack. It's quite popular in India and it has got thousands of hits in a short span of time.
# I built a [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikimedia-input-method-ex/cealbihienhpnlglmhmmmlbjdcjfjkap chrome extension] for language transliteration using Wikimedia's jQueryIME library and it won 'The most innovative project' award in Wikimedia Dev Camp held at IIM Bangalore. My other wikimedia contributions are [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/owner:%22Ershad+Kunnakkadan+%253Cershad92%2540gmail.com%253E%22,n,z here]

I've also some open source contributions, please find them in my [http://github.com/ershad github] profile

=== Have you communicated with a potential mentor? If so, who? ===
Yes, I've communicated with Anivar Aravind.

=== SMC Wiki link of your proposal ===
http://wiki.smc.org.in/User:Ershad/GSoC2013_Malayalagrandham

User:Ershad/GSoC2013 Malayalagrandham

2013-04-25T13:05:20Z

Ershad: /* The need you believe it fulfills */

'''Google Summer of Code 2013 Proposal for Swathanthra Malalayalam Computing'''

==Personal Information==
Email Address: ershad92@gmail.com
Telephone: +91 8089133362
Blog URL: http://ershadk.com
Freenode IRC Nick: ershad
University and current education: BSc Computer Science, Bharathiyar University

=== Why do you want to work with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing? ===
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is contributing much to Indic languages and language computing, it's great to be a part of it.

=== Do you have any past involvement with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing or another open source project as a contributor? ===
Yes. I've contributed to Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, MediaWiki and a couple of other open source projects.

=== Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations? ===
No, I've not participated in GSoC programs before.

=== Do you have other obligations between May and August ? Please note that we expect the Summer of Code to be a full time, 40 hour a week commitment ===
It will be possible for me to work 35-40 hours / Week.

=== Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing after the GSoC 2013 program, if yes, which area(s), you are interested in? ===
I've been contributing to SMC, I will definitely continue doing it along with maintaining the Malayalagrandham application after GSoC. My interested areas include Language Computing, SILPA and translation.

=== Why should we choose you over other applicants? ===
I've been a FOSS enthusiast for years and have been continuously trying to contribute to it. GSoC will be a great platform for me to contribute more.

This proposal is meant for Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data project. I'm planning to do it in Ruby on Rails in which I'm well versed and have more than 1 year of experience. I also have a track record of doing end-to-end hobby projects in Ruby on Rails.

And right the at moment, I've done its backend and wrote scripts to import data from old database. It will be easy for me to build upon that.

== Proposal Description ==
=== An overview of your proposal ===
Malayalagrandham.com is a web application to store and process bibliography data of books. Currently it has a growing database with information of more than 50K books. The current live application was built a few years before and it lacks features such as crowd sourcing, RESTFul API, Feedback, Visualization and so on. The proposed project aims at building a more advanced and contributor/developer friendly version of Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data application with the aforementioned features. The new version of Malayalagrandham will be a crowd sourced Internet Book Database. It will have features to export data to various formats such as MARC21 and MARCXML.

The application essentially will have the following interfaces.

1. Interface for the task force
<blockquote>
Task force is a group of people with administrative privileges. These admins should be able to select the right submission from crowd sourced data and they should be able to moderate any the contents in the web application. They should also be able to visualize existing data.
</blockquote>
2. Interface for contributor
<blockquote>
Any person should be able to become a contributor by signing up using his/her email ID. Contributor should be able to add new bibliography information and post comments/reviews through the feedback system. He should also be able to upload cover photos of books.
</blockquote>
3. Interface for Publisher
<blockquote>
Publishers should be able to add bibliography information of the books they publish. They should also be able to generate QR code that links to specific book's page.
</blockquote>
4. Interface for Librarian
<blockquote>
Librarians should be able to update the location of the books in Malayalagrandham.
</blockquote>
All the data in Malayalagrandham will be open to Public. But users need special permission (admin privileges) to modify the existing approved data. Application will have full support for localization using i18n libraries of Rails.

=== The need you believe it fulfills ===
Apart from the bibliographic information it provides, Malayalagrandham would help people to locate books easily. Building a new version this application has the following benefits:

# It will be easy for users to contribute new data
# REFTul API makes the application developer friendly. The API will enable developers to write client applications across platforms.
# We will have a centralized location of information of many books in a breadth of languages.
# It will be easy to perform complex searches to locate specific books.
# The feedback feature attracts more engagement/dicussion from users.
# ISBN based book discovery will be possible
# QR code for each book would help the user to locate its Malayagrandham page

=== Any relevant experience you have ===

I've industrial experiencing in building and deploying Ruby on Rails web applications. I also have learned about MARC21/MARCXML formats and ISBN.

=== How you intend to implement your proposal ===
Technology stack is Ruby on Rails web framework with MySQL backend. We will be using the following Open Source gems and modules :

# devise - User Authorization
# ruby-marc - Read and Write in MARC Format
# marc21-utils - MARC Validation
# ferret - Text Search
# Jbuilder - DSL to configure JSON API
# rqrcode - QR code generator
# Twitter Bootstrap - Front end Framework

=== A rough timeline for your progress with phases ===
==== Jun 17 - Jun 30 ====
<blockquote>
Resume the development on the existing application I wrote for this project and design the remaining parts of the software.
</blockquote>

==== Jul 1 - Jul 15====
<blockquote>
Implement the application logic as per the design and start focusing on API
</blockquote>
==== July 16 - Jul 31====
<blockquote>
Implement the basic API and get the functionalities working in the back end
Test the built features and fix bugs for mid term evaluation
</blockquote>
==== Aug 1 - Aug 20====
<blockquote>
Build advanced features such as crowd sourcing support, data export and QR support
</blockquote>
==== Aug 21 - Sept 5====
<blockquote>
Implement basic UI for Task force, Publisher, Contributor and Librarian.
Focus more on UX, get the minute details working properly.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 5 - Sept 12====
<blockquote>
Control the access to the site pragmatically and do a security auditing.
Polish the interface and all features should be working by now.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 13 - Sept 27 ====
<blockquote>
Review code, fix bugs and get ready for final evaluation.
</blockquote>
=== Any other details you feel we should consider ===
It will be great if we can sync Malayagrandham with Wikisource. We can also link to Public Domain books in Malayagrandham pages.

=== Tell us about something you have created. ===
# [http://quizgrid.com QuizGrid.com] is a social network I built using Ruby on Rails and MySQL. More details are [http://ershadk.com/blog/2013/01/21/announcing-quizgrid-dot-com/ here]
# [http://myfest.in Myfest.in] is a college fest aggregator I built using the same technology stack. It's quite popular in India and it has got thousands of hits in a short span of time.
# I built a [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikimedia-input-method-ex/cealbihienhpnlglmhmmmlbjdcjfjkap chrome extension] for language transliteration using Wikimedia's jQueryIME library and it won 'The most innovative project' award in Wikimedia Dev Camp held at IIM Bangalore

I've also some open source contributions, please find them in my [http://github.com/ershad github] profile

=== Have you communicated with a potential mentor? If so, who? ===
Yes, I've communicated with Anivar Aravind.

=== SMC Wiki link of your proposal ===
http://wiki.smc.org.in/User:Ershad/GSoC2013_Malayalagrandham

User:Ershad/GSoC2013 Malayalagrandham

2013-04-25T13:04:08Z

Ershad: /* An overview of your proposal */

'''Google Summer of Code 2013 Proposal for Swathanthra Malalayalam Computing'''

==Personal Information==
Email Address: ershad92@gmail.com
Telephone: +91 8089133362
Blog URL: http://ershadk.com
Freenode IRC Nick: ershad
University and current education: BSc Computer Science, Bharathiyar University

=== Why do you want to work with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing? ===
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is contributing much to Indic languages and language computing, it's great to be a part of it.

=== Do you have any past involvement with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing or another open source project as a contributor? ===
Yes. I've contributed to Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, MediaWiki and a couple of other open source projects.

=== Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations? ===
No, I've not participated in GSoC programs before.

=== Do you have other obligations between May and August ? Please note that we expect the Summer of Code to be a full time, 40 hour a week commitment ===
It will be possible for me to work 35-40 hours / Week.

=== Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing after the GSoC 2013 program, if yes, which area(s), you are interested in? ===
I've been contributing to SMC, I will definitely continue doing it along with maintaining the Malayalagrandham application after GSoC. My interested areas include Language Computing, SILPA and translation.

=== Why should we choose you over other applicants? ===
I've been a FOSS enthusiast for years and have been continuously trying to contribute to it. GSoC will be a great platform for me to contribute more.

This proposal is meant for Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data project. I'm planning to do it in Ruby on Rails in which I'm well versed and have more than 1 year of experience. I also have a track record of doing end-to-end hobby projects in Ruby on Rails.

And right the at moment, I've done its backend and wrote scripts to import data from old database. It will be easy for me to build upon that.

== Proposal Description ==
=== An overview of your proposal ===
Malayalagrandham.com is a web application to store and process bibliography data of books. Currently it has a growing database with information of more than 50K books. The current live application was built a few years before and it lacks features such as crowd sourcing, RESTFul API, Feedback, Visualization and so on. The proposed project aims at building a more advanced and contributor/developer friendly version of Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data application with the aforementioned features. The new version of Malayalagrandham will be a crowd sourced Internet Book Database. It will have features to export data to various formats such as MARC21 and MARCXML.

The application essentially will have the following interfaces.

1. Interface for the task force
<blockquote>
Task force is a group of people with administrative privileges. These admins should be able to select the right submission from crowd sourced data and they should be able to moderate any the contents in the web application. They should also be able to visualize existing data.
</blockquote>
2. Interface for contributor
<blockquote>
Any person should be able to become a contributor by signing up using his/her email ID. Contributor should be able to add new bibliography information and post comments/reviews through the feedback system. He should also be able to upload cover photos of books.
</blockquote>
3. Interface for Publisher
<blockquote>
Publishers should be able to add bibliography information of the books they publish. They should also be able to generate QR code that links to specific book's page.
</blockquote>
4. Interface for Librarian
<blockquote>
Librarians should be able to update the location of the books in Malayalagrandham.
</blockquote>
All the data in Malayalagrandham will be open to Public. But users need special permission (admin privileges) to modify the existing approved data. Application will have full support for localization using i18n libraries of Rails.

=== The need you believe it fulfills ===
Apart from the bibliographic information it provides, Malayalagrandham would help people to locate books easily. Building a new version this application has the following benefits:

# It will be easy for users to contribute new data
# REFTul API makes the application developer friendly. The API will enable developers to write client applications across platforms.
# We will have a centralized location of information of many books in a breadth of languages.
# It will be easy to perform complex searches to locate specific books.
# The feedback feature attracts more engagement/dicussion from users.
# QR code for each book would help the user to locate its Malayagrandham page

=== Any relevant experience you have ===

I've industrial experiencing in building and deploying Ruby on Rails web applications. I also have learned about MARC21/MARCXML formats and ISBN.

=== How you intend to implement your proposal ===
Technology stack is Ruby on Rails web framework with MySQL backend. We will be using the following Open Source gems and modules :

# devise - User Authorization
# ruby-marc - Read and Write in MARC Format
# marc21-utils - MARC Validation
# ferret - Text Search
# Jbuilder - DSL to configure JSON API
# rqrcode - QR code generator
# Twitter Bootstrap - Front end Framework

=== A rough timeline for your progress with phases ===
==== Jun 17 - Jun 30 ====
<blockquote>
Resume the development on the existing application I wrote for this project and design the remaining parts of the software.
</blockquote>

==== Jul 1 - Jul 15====
<blockquote>
Implement the application logic as per the design and start focusing on API
</blockquote>
==== July 16 - Jul 31====
<blockquote>
Implement the basic API and get the functionalities working in the back end
Test the built features and fix bugs for mid term evaluation
</blockquote>
==== Aug 1 - Aug 20====
<blockquote>
Build advanced features such as crowd sourcing support, data export and QR support
</blockquote>
==== Aug 21 - Sept 5====
<blockquote>
Implement basic UI for Task force, Publisher, Contributor and Librarian.
Focus more on UX, get the minute details working properly.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 5 - Sept 12====
<blockquote>
Control the access to the site pragmatically and do a security auditing.
Polish the interface and all features should be working by now.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 13 - Sept 27 ====
<blockquote>
Review code, fix bugs and get ready for final evaluation.
</blockquote>
=== Any other details you feel we should consider ===
It will be great if we can sync Malayagrandham with Wikisource. We can also link to Public Domain books in Malayagrandham pages.

=== Tell us about something you have created. ===
# [http://quizgrid.com QuizGrid.com] is a social network I built using Ruby on Rails and MySQL. More details are [http://ershadk.com/blog/2013/01/21/announcing-quizgrid-dot-com/ here]
# [http://myfest.in Myfest.in] is a college fest aggregator I built using the same technology stack. It's quite popular in India and it has got thousands of hits in a short span of time.
# I built a [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikimedia-input-method-ex/cealbihienhpnlglmhmmmlbjdcjfjkap chrome extension] for language transliteration using Wikimedia's jQueryIME library and it won 'The most innovative project' award in Wikimedia Dev Camp held at IIM Bangalore

I've also some open source contributions, please find them in my [http://github.com/ershad github] profile

=== Have you communicated with a potential mentor? If so, who? ===
Yes, I've communicated with Anivar Aravind.

=== SMC Wiki link of your proposal ===
http://wiki.smc.org.in/User:Ershad/GSoC2013_Malayalagrandham

User:Ershad/GSoC2013 Malayalagrandham

2013-04-25T12:54:35Z

Ershad: /* Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing after the GSoC 2013 program, if yes, which area(s), you are interested in? */

'''Google Summer of Code 2013 Proposal for Swathanthra Malalayalam Computing'''

==Personal Information==
Email Address: ershad92@gmail.com
Telephone: +91 8089133362
Blog URL: http://ershadk.com
Freenode IRC Nick: ershad
University and current education: BSc Computer Science, Bharathiyar University

=== Why do you want to work with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing? ===
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is contributing much to Indic languages and language computing, it's great to be a part of it.

=== Do you have any past involvement with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing or another open source project as a contributor? ===
Yes. I've contributed to Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, MediaWiki and a couple of other open source projects.

=== Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations? ===
No, I've not participated in GSoC programs before.

=== Do you have other obligations between May and August ? Please note that we expect the Summer of Code to be a full time, 40 hour a week commitment ===
It will be possible for me to work 35-40 hours / Week.

=== Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing after the GSoC 2013 program, if yes, which area(s), you are interested in? ===
I've been contributing to SMC, I will definitely continue doing it along with maintaining the Malayalagrandham application after GSoC. My interested areas include Language Computing, SILPA and translation.

=== Why should we choose you over other applicants? ===
I've been a FOSS enthusiast for years and have been continuously trying to contribute to it. GSoC will be a great platform for me to contribute more.

This proposal is meant for Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data project. I'm planning to do it in Ruby on Rails in which I'm well versed and have more than 1 year of experience. I also have a track record of doing end-to-end hobby projects in Ruby on Rails.

And right the at moment, I've done its backend and wrote scripts to import data from old database. It will be easy for me to build upon that.

== Proposal Description ==
=== An overview of your proposal ===
Malayalagrandham.com is a web application to store and process bibliography data of books. Currently it has a growing database with information of more than 50K books. The current live application was built a few years before and it lacks features such as crowd sourcing, RESTFul API, Feedback, Visualization and so on. The proposed project aims at building a more advanced and contributor/developer friendly version of Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data application with the aforementioned features. The new version of Malayalagrandham will be a crowd sourced Internet Book Database. It will have features to export data to various formats such as MARC21 and MARCXML.

The application essentially will have the following interfaces.

1. Interface for the task force
<blockquote>
Task force is a group of people with administrative privileges. These admins should be able to select the right submission from crowd sourced data and they should be able to moderate any the contents in the web application. They should also be able to visualize existing data.
</blockquote>
2. Interface for contributor
<blockquote>
Any person should be able to become a contributor by signing up using his/her email ID. Contributor should be able to add new bibliography information and post comments/reviews through the feedback system. He should also be able to upload cover photos of books.
</blockquote>
3. Interface for Publisher
<blockquote>
Publishers should be able to add bibliography information of the books they publish. They should also be able to generate QR code that links to specific book's page.
</blockquote>
4. Interface for Librarian
<blockquote>
Librarians should be able to update the location of the books in Malayalagrandham.
</blockquote>
All the data in Malayalagrandham will be open to Public. But users need special permission (admin privileges) to modify the existing approved data.

=== The need you believe it fulfills ===
Apart from the bibliographic information it provides, Malayalagrandham would help people to locate books easily. Building a new version this application has the following benefits:

# It will be easy for users to contribute new data
# REFTul API makes the application developer friendly. The API will enable developers to write client applications across platforms.
# We will have a centralized location of information of many books in a breadth of languages.
# It will be easy to perform complex searches to locate specific books.
# The feedback feature attracts more engagement/dicussion from users.
# QR code for each book would help the user to locate its Malayagrandham page

=== Any relevant experience you have ===

I've industrial experiencing in building and deploying Ruby on Rails web applications. I also have learned about MARC21/MARCXML formats and ISBN.

=== How you intend to implement your proposal ===
Technology stack is Ruby on Rails web framework with MySQL backend. We will be using the following Open Source gems and modules :

# devise - User Authorization
# ruby-marc - Read and Write in MARC Format
# marc21-utils - MARC Validation
# ferret - Text Search
# Jbuilder - DSL to configure JSON API
# rqrcode - QR code generator
# Twitter Bootstrap - Front end Framework

=== A rough timeline for your progress with phases ===
==== Jun 17 - Jun 30 ====
<blockquote>
Resume the development on the existing application I wrote for this project and design the remaining parts of the software.
</blockquote>

==== Jul 1 - Jul 15====
<blockquote>
Implement the application logic as per the design and start focusing on API
</blockquote>
==== July 16 - Jul 31====
<blockquote>
Implement the basic API and get the functionalities working in the back end
Test the built features and fix bugs for mid term evaluation
</blockquote>
==== Aug 1 - Aug 20====
<blockquote>
Build advanced features such as crowd sourcing support, data export and QR support
</blockquote>
==== Aug 21 - Sept 5====
<blockquote>
Implement basic UI for Task force, Publisher, Contributor and Librarian.
Focus more on UX, get the minute details working properly.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 5 - Sept 12====
<blockquote>
Control the access to the site pragmatically and do a security auditing.
Polish the interface and all features should be working by now.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 13 - Sept 27 ====
<blockquote>
Review code, fix bugs and get ready for final evaluation.
</blockquote>
=== Any other details you feel we should consider ===
It will be great if we can sync Malayagrandham with Wikisource. We can also link to Public Domain books in Malayagrandham pages.

=== Tell us about something you have created. ===
# [http://quizgrid.com QuizGrid.com] is a social network I built using Ruby on Rails and MySQL. More details are [http://ershadk.com/blog/2013/01/21/announcing-quizgrid-dot-com/ here]
# [http://myfest.in Myfest.in] is a college fest aggregator I built using the same technology stack. It's quite popular in India and it has got thousands of hits in a short span of time.
# I built a [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikimedia-input-method-ex/cealbihienhpnlglmhmmmlbjdcjfjkap chrome extension] for language transliteration using Wikimedia's jQueryIME library and it won 'The most innovative project' award in Wikimedia Dev Camp held at IIM Bangalore

I've also some open source contributions, please find them in my [http://github.com/ershad github] profile

=== Have you communicated with a potential mentor? If so, who? ===
Yes, I've communicated with Anivar Aravind.

=== SMC Wiki link of your proposal ===
http://wiki.smc.org.in/User:Ershad/GSoC2013_Malayalagrandham

User:Ershad/GSoC2013 Malayalagrandham

2013-04-25T12:53:10Z

Ershad:

'''Google Summer of Code 2013 Proposal for Swathanthra Malalayalam Computing'''

==Personal Information==
Email Address: ershad92@gmail.com
Telephone: +91 8089133362
Blog URL: http://ershadk.com
Freenode IRC Nick: ershad
University and current education: BSc Computer Science, Bharathiyar University

=== Why do you want to work with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing? ===
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is contributing much to Indic languages and language computing, it's great to be a part of it.

=== Do you have any past involvement with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing or another open source project as a contributor? ===
Yes. I've contributed to Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, MediaWiki and a couple of other open source projects.

=== Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations? ===
No, I've not participated in GSoC programs before.

=== Do you have other obligations between May and August ? Please note that we expect the Summer of Code to be a full time, 40 hour a week commitment ===
It will be possible for me to work 35-40 hours / Week.

=== Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing after the GSoC 2013 program, if yes, which area(s), you are interested in? ===
I've been contributing to SMC, I will definitely continue that and I will be happy to maintain Malayalagrandham application after GSoC as well. My interested areas include Language Computing, SILPA and translation.

=== Why should we choose you over other applicants? ===
I've been a FOSS enthusiast for years and have been continuously trying to contribute to it. GSoC will be a great platform for me to contribute more.

This proposal is meant for Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data project. I'm planning to do it in Ruby on Rails in which I'm well versed and have more than 1 year of experience. I also have a track record of doing end-to-end hobby projects in Ruby on Rails.

And right the at moment, I've done its backend and wrote scripts to import data from old database. It will be easy for me to build upon that.

== Proposal Description ==
=== An overview of your proposal ===
Malayalagrandham.com is a web application to store and process bibliography data of books. Currently it has a growing database with information of more than 50K books. The current live application was built a few years before and it lacks features such as crowd sourcing, RESTFul API, Feedback, Visualization and so on. The proposed project aims at building a more advanced and contributor/developer friendly version of Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data application with the aforementioned features. The new version of Malayalagrandham will be a crowd sourced Internet Book Database. It will have features to export data to various formats such as MARC21 and MARCXML.

The application essentially will have the following interfaces.

1. Interface for the task force
<blockquote>
Task force is a group of people with administrative privileges. These admins should be able to select the right submission from crowd sourced data and they should be able to moderate any the contents in the web application. They should also be able to visualize existing data.
</blockquote>
2. Interface for contributor
<blockquote>
Any person should be able to become a contributor by signing up using his/her email ID. Contributor should be able to add new bibliography information and post comments/reviews through the feedback system. He should also be able to upload cover photos of books.
</blockquote>
3. Interface for Publisher
<blockquote>
Publishers should be able to add bibliography information of the books they publish. They should also be able to generate QR code that links to specific book's page.
</blockquote>
4. Interface for Librarian
<blockquote>
Librarians should be able to update the location of the books in Malayalagrandham.
</blockquote>
All the data in Malayalagrandham will be open to Public. But users need special permission (admin privileges) to modify the existing approved data.

=== The need you believe it fulfills ===
Apart from the bibliographic information it provides, Malayalagrandham would help people to locate books easily. Building a new version this application has the following benefits:

# It will be easy for users to contribute new data
# REFTul API makes the application developer friendly. The API will enable developers to write client applications across platforms.
# We will have a centralized location of information of many books in a breadth of languages.
# It will be easy to perform complex searches to locate specific books.
# The feedback feature attracts more engagement/dicussion from users.
# QR code for each book would help the user to locate its Malayagrandham page

=== Any relevant experience you have ===

I've industrial experiencing in building and deploying Ruby on Rails web applications. I also have learned about MARC21/MARCXML formats and ISBN.

=== How you intend to implement your proposal ===
Technology stack is Ruby on Rails web framework with MySQL backend. We will be using the following Open Source gems and modules :

# devise - User Authorization
# ruby-marc - Read and Write in MARC Format
# marc21-utils - MARC Validation
# ferret - Text Search
# Jbuilder - DSL to configure JSON API
# rqrcode - QR code generator
# Twitter Bootstrap - Front end Framework

=== A rough timeline for your progress with phases ===
==== Jun 17 - Jun 30 ====
<blockquote>
Resume the development on the existing application I wrote for this project and design the remaining parts of the software.
</blockquote>

==== Jul 1 - Jul 15====
<blockquote>
Implement the application logic as per the design and start focusing on API
</blockquote>
==== July 16 - Jul 31====
<blockquote>
Implement the basic API and get the functionalities working in the back end
Test the built features and fix bugs for mid term evaluation
</blockquote>
==== Aug 1 - Aug 20====
<blockquote>
Build advanced features such as crowd sourcing support, data export and QR support
</blockquote>
==== Aug 21 - Sept 5====
<blockquote>
Implement basic UI for Task force, Publisher, Contributor and Librarian.
Focus more on UX, get the minute details working properly.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 5 - Sept 12====
<blockquote>
Control the access to the site pragmatically and do a security auditing.
Polish the interface and all features should be working by now.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 13 - Sept 27 ====
<blockquote>
Review code, fix bugs and get ready for final evaluation.
</blockquote>
=== Any other details you feel we should consider ===
It will be great if we can sync Malayagrandham with Wikisource. We can also link to Public Domain books in Malayagrandham pages.

=== Tell us about something you have created. ===
# [http://quizgrid.com QuizGrid.com] is a social network I built using Ruby on Rails and MySQL. More details are [http://ershadk.com/blog/2013/01/21/announcing-quizgrid-dot-com/ here]
# [http://myfest.in Myfest.in] is a college fest aggregator I built using the same technology stack. It's quite popular in India and it has got thousands of hits in a short span of time.
# I built a [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikimedia-input-method-ex/cealbihienhpnlglmhmmmlbjdcjfjkap chrome extension] for language transliteration using Wikimedia's jQueryIME library and it won 'The most innovative project' award in Wikimedia Dev Camp held at IIM Bangalore

I've also some open source contributions, please find them in my [http://github.com/ershad github] profile

=== Have you communicated with a potential mentor? If so, who? ===
Yes, I've communicated with Anivar Aravind.

=== SMC Wiki link of your proposal ===
http://wiki.smc.org.in/User:Ershad/GSoC2013_Malayalagrandham

User:Ershad/GSoC2013 Malayalagrandham

2013-04-24T14:51:09Z

Ershad: /* Why should we choose you over other applicants? */

'''Google Summer of Code 2013 Proposal for Swathanthra Malalayalam Computing'''

==Personal Information==
Email Address: ershad92@gmail.com
Telephone: +91 8089133362
Blog URL: http://ershadk.com
Freenode IRC Nick: ershad
University and current education: BSc Computer Science, Bharathiyar University

=== Why do you want to work with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing? ===
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is contributing much to Indic languages and language computing, it's great to be a part of it.

=== Do you have any past involvement with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing or another open source project as a contributor? ===
Yes. I've contributed to Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, MediaWiki and a couple of other open source projects.

=== Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations? ===
No, I've not participated in GSoC programs before.

=== Do you have other obligations between May and August ? Please note that we expect the Summer of Code to be a full time, 40 hour a week commitment ===
It will be possible for me to work 35-40 hours / Week.

=== Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing after the GSoC 2013 program, if yes, which area(s), you are interested in? ===
I've been contributing to SMC, I will definitely continue that. My interested areas include Language Computing, SILPA and translation.

=== Why should we choose you over other applicants? ===
I've been a FOSS enthusiast for years and have been continuously trying to contribute to it. GSoC will be a great platform for me to contribute more.

This proposal is meant for Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data project. I'm planning to do it in Ruby on Rails in which I'm well versed and have more than 1 year of experience. I also have a track record of doing end-to-end hobby projects in Ruby on Rails.

And right the at moment, I've done its backend and wrote scripts to import data from old database. It will be easy for me to build upon that.

== Proposal Description ==
=== An overview of your proposal ===
Malayalagrandham.com is a web application to store and process bibliography data of books. Currently it has a growing database with information of more than 50K books. The current live application was built a few years before and it lacks features such as crowd sourcing, RESTFul API, Feedback, Visualization and so on. The proposed project aims at building a more advanced and contributor/developer friendly version of Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data application with the aforementioned features. The new version of Malayalagrandham will be a crowd sourced Internet Book Database. It will have features to export data to various formats such as MARC21 and MARCXML.

The application essentially will have the following interfaces.

1. Interface for the task force
<blockquote>
Task force is a group of people with administrative privileges. These admins should be able to select the right submission from crowd sourced data and they should be able to moderate any the contents in the web application. They should also be able to visualize existing data.
</blockquote>
2. Interface for contributor
<blockquote>
Any person should be able to become a contributor by signing up using his/her email ID. Contributor should be able to add new bibliography information and post comments/reviews through the feedback system. He should also be able to upload cover photos of books.
</blockquote>
3. Interface for Publisher
<blockquote>
Publishers should be able to add bibliography information of the books they publish. They should also be able to generate QR code that links to specific book's page.
</blockquote>
4. Interface for Librarian
<blockquote>
Librarians should be able to update the location of the books in Malayalagrandham.
</blockquote>
All the data in Malayalagrandham will be open to Public. But users need special permission (admin privileges) to modify the existing approved data.

=== The need you believe it fulfills ===
Apart from the bibliographic information it provides, Malayalagrandham would help people to locate books easily. Building a new version this application has the following benefits:

# It will be easy for users to contribute new data
# REFTul API makes the application developer friendly. The API will enable developers to write client applications across platforms.
# We will have a centralized location of information of many books in a breadth of languages.
# It will be easy to perform complex searches to locate specific books.
# The feedback feature attracts more engagement/dicussion from users.
# QR code for each book would help the user to locate its Malayagrandham page

=== Any relevant experience you have ===

I've industrial experiencing in building and deploying Ruby on Rails web applications. I also have learned about MARC21/MARCXML formats and ISBN.

=== How you intend to implement your proposal ===
Technology stack is Ruby on Rails web framework with MySQL backend. We will be using the following Open Source gems and modules :

# devise - User Authorization
# ruby-marc - Read and Write in MARC Format
# marc21-utils - MARC Validation
# ferret - Text Search
# Jbuilder - DSL to configure JSON API
# rqrcode - QR code generator
# Twitter Bootstrap - Front end Framework

=== A rough timeline for your progress with phases ===
==== Jun 17 - Jun 30 ====
<blockquote>
Resume the development on the existing application I wrote for this project and design the remaining parts of the software.
</blockquote>

==== Jul 1 - Jul 15====
<blockquote>
Implement the application logic as per the design and start focusing on API
</blockquote>
==== July 16 - Jul 31====
<blockquote>
Implement the basic API and get the functionalities working in the back end
Test the built features and fix bugs for mid term evaluation
</blockquote>
==== Aug 1 - Aug 20====
<blockquote>
Build advanced features such as crowd sourcing support, data export and QR support
</blockquote>
==== Aug 21 - Sept 5====
<blockquote>
Implement basic UI for Task force, Publisher, Contributor and Librarian.
Focus more on UX, get the minute details working properly.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 5 - Sept 12====
<blockquote>
Control the access to the site pragmatically and do a security auditing.
Polish the interface and all features should be working by now.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 13 - Sept 27 ====
<blockquote>
Review code, fix bugs and get ready for final evaluation.
</blockquote>
=== Any other details you feel we should consider ===
It will be great if we can sync Malayagrandham with Wikisource. We can also link to Public Domain books in Malayagrandham pages.

=== Tell us about something you have created. ===
# [http://quizgrid.com QuizGrid.com] is a social network I built using Ruby on Rails and MySQL. More details are [http://ershadk.com/blog/2013/01/21/announcing-quizgrid-dot-com/ here]
# [http://myfest.in Myfest.in] is a college fest aggregator I built using the same technology stack. It's quite popular in India and it has got thousands of hits in a short span of time.
# I built a [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikimedia-input-method-ex/cealbihienhpnlglmhmmmlbjdcjfjkap chrome extension] for language transliteration using Wikimedia's jQueryIME library and it won 'The most innovative project' award in Wikimedia Dev Camp held at IIM Bangalore

I've also some open source contributions, please find them in my [http://github.com/ershad github] profile

=== Have you communicated with a potential mentor? If so, who? ===
Yes, I've communicated with Anivar Aravind.

=== SMC Wiki link of your proposal ===
http://wiki.smc.org.in/User:Ershad/GSoC2013_Malayalagrandham

User:Ershad/GSoC2013 Malayalagrandham

2013-04-24T14:49:36Z

Ershad: /* Tell us about something you have created. */

'''Google Summer of Code 2013 Proposal for Swathanthra Malalayalam Computing'''

==Personal Information==
Email Address: ershad92@gmail.com
Telephone: +91 8089133362
Blog URL: http://ershadk.com
Freenode IRC Nick: ershad
University and current education: BSc Computer Science, Bharathiyar University

=== Why do you want to work with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing? ===
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is contributing much to Indic languages and language computing, it's great to be a part of it.

=== Do you have any past involvement with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing or another open source project as a contributor? ===
Yes. I've contributed to Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, MediaWiki and a couple of other open source projects.

=== Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations? ===
No, I've not participated in GSoC programs before.

=== Do you have other obligations between May and August ? Please note that we expect the Summer of Code to be a full time, 40 hour a week commitment ===
It will be possible for me to work 35-40 hours / Week.

=== Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing after the GSoC 2013 program, if yes, which area(s), you are interested in? ===
I've been contributing to SMC, I will definitely continue that. My interested areas include Language Computing, SILPA and translation.

=== Why should we choose you over other applicants? ===
I've been a FOSS enthusiast for years and have been continuously trying for ways to contribute to it. GSoC will be a great platform for me to contribute more.

This proposal is meant for Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data project. I'm planning to do it in Ruby on Rails in which I'm well versed and have more than 1 year of experience. I also have a track record of doing end-to-end hobby projects in Ruby on Rails.

And right the at moment, I've done its backend and wrote scripts to import data from old database. It will be easy for me to build upon that.

== Proposal Description ==
=== An overview of your proposal ===
Malayalagrandham.com is a web application to store and process bibliography data of books. Currently it has a growing database with information of more than 50K books. The current live application was built a few years before and it lacks features such as crowd sourcing, RESTFul API, Feedback, Visualization and so on. The proposed project aims at building a more advanced and contributor/developer friendly version of Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data application with the aforementioned features. The new version of Malayalagrandham will be a crowd sourced Internet Book Database. It will have features to export data to various formats such as MARC21 and MARCXML.

The application essentially will have the following interfaces.

1. Interface for the task force
<blockquote>
Task force is a group of people with administrative privileges. These admins should be able to select the right submission from crowd sourced data and they should be able to moderate any the contents in the web application. They should also be able to visualize existing data.
</blockquote>
2. Interface for contributor
<blockquote>
Any person should be able to become a contributor by signing up using his/her email ID. Contributor should be able to add new bibliography information and post comments/reviews through the feedback system. He should also be able to upload cover photos of books.
</blockquote>
3. Interface for Publisher
<blockquote>
Publishers should be able to add bibliography information of the books they publish. They should also be able to generate QR code that links to specific book's page.
</blockquote>
4. Interface for Librarian
<blockquote>
Librarians should be able to update the location of the books in Malayalagrandham.
</blockquote>
All the data in Malayalagrandham will be open to Public. But users need special permission (admin privileges) to modify the existing approved data.

=== The need you believe it fulfills ===
Apart from the bibliographic information it provides, Malayalagrandham would help people to locate books easily. Building a new version this application has the following benefits:

# It will be easy for users to contribute new data
# REFTul API makes the application developer friendly. The API will enable developers to write client applications across platforms.
# We will have a centralized location of information of many books in a breadth of languages.
# It will be easy to perform complex searches to locate specific books.
# The feedback feature attracts more engagement/dicussion from users.
# QR code for each book would help the user to locate its Malayagrandham page

=== Any relevant experience you have ===

I've industrial experiencing in building and deploying Ruby on Rails web applications. I also have learned about MARC21/MARCXML formats and ISBN.

=== How you intend to implement your proposal ===
Technology stack is Ruby on Rails web framework with MySQL backend. We will be using the following Open Source gems and modules :

# devise - User Authorization
# ruby-marc - Read and Write in MARC Format
# marc21-utils - MARC Validation
# ferret - Text Search
# Jbuilder - DSL to configure JSON API
# rqrcode - QR code generator
# Twitter Bootstrap - Front end Framework

=== A rough timeline for your progress with phases ===
==== Jun 17 - Jun 30 ====
<blockquote>
Resume the development on the existing application I wrote for this project and design the remaining parts of the software.
</blockquote>

==== Jul 1 - Jul 15====
<blockquote>
Implement the application logic as per the design and start focusing on API
</blockquote>
==== July 16 - Jul 31====
<blockquote>
Implement the basic API and get the functionalities working in the back end
Test the built features and fix bugs for mid term evaluation
</blockquote>
==== Aug 1 - Aug 20====
<blockquote>
Build advanced features such as crowd sourcing support, data export and QR support
</blockquote>
==== Aug 21 - Sept 5====
<blockquote>
Implement basic UI for Task force, Publisher, Contributor and Librarian.
Focus more on UX, get the minute details working properly.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 5 - Sept 12====
<blockquote>
Control the access to the site pragmatically and do a security auditing.
Polish the interface and all features should be working by now.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 13 - Sept 27 ====
<blockquote>
Review code, fix bugs and get ready for final evaluation.
</blockquote>
=== Any other details you feel we should consider ===
It will be great if we can sync Malayagrandham with Wikisource. We can also link to Public Domain books in Malayagrandham pages.

=== Tell us about something you have created. ===
# [http://quizgrid.com QuizGrid.com] is a social network I built using Ruby on Rails and MySQL. More details are [http://ershadk.com/blog/2013/01/21/announcing-quizgrid-dot-com/ here]
# [http://myfest.in Myfest.in] is a college fest aggregator I built using the same technology stack. It's quite popular in India and it has got thousands of hits in a short span of time.
# I built a [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikimedia-input-method-ex/cealbihienhpnlglmhmmmlbjdcjfjkap chrome extension] for language transliteration using Wikimedia's jQueryIME library and it won 'The most innovative project' award in Wikimedia Dev Camp held at IIM Bangalore

I've also some open source contributions, please find them in my [http://github.com/ershad github] profile

=== Have you communicated with a potential mentor? If so, who? ===
Yes, I've communicated with Anivar Aravind.

=== SMC Wiki link of your proposal ===
http://wiki.smc.org.in/User:Ershad/GSoC2013_Malayalagrandham

User:Ershad/GSoC2013 Malayalagrandham

2013-04-24T14:48:50Z

Ershad: /* How you intend to implement your proposal */

'''Google Summer of Code 2013 Proposal for Swathanthra Malalayalam Computing'''

==Personal Information==
Email Address: ershad92@gmail.com
Telephone: +91 8089133362
Blog URL: http://ershadk.com
Freenode IRC Nick: ershad
University and current education: BSc Computer Science, Bharathiyar University

=== Why do you want to work with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing? ===
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is contributing much to Indic languages and language computing, it's great to be a part of it.

=== Do you have any past involvement with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing or another open source project as a contributor? ===
Yes. I've contributed to Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, MediaWiki and a couple of other open source projects.

=== Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations? ===
No, I've not participated in GSoC programs before.

=== Do you have other obligations between May and August ? Please note that we expect the Summer of Code to be a full time, 40 hour a week commitment ===
It will be possible for me to work 35-40 hours / Week.

=== Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing after the GSoC 2013 program, if yes, which area(s), you are interested in? ===
I've been contributing to SMC, I will definitely continue that. My interested areas include Language Computing, SILPA and translation.

=== Why should we choose you over other applicants? ===
I've been a FOSS enthusiast for years and have been continuously trying for ways to contribute to it. GSoC will be a great platform for me to contribute more.

This proposal is meant for Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data project. I'm planning to do it in Ruby on Rails in which I'm well versed and have more than 1 year of experience. I also have a track record of doing end-to-end hobby projects in Ruby on Rails.

And right the at moment, I've done its backend and wrote scripts to import data from old database. It will be easy for me to build upon that.

== Proposal Description ==
=== An overview of your proposal ===
Malayalagrandham.com is a web application to store and process bibliography data of books. Currently it has a growing database with information of more than 50K books. The current live application was built a few years before and it lacks features such as crowd sourcing, RESTFul API, Feedback, Visualization and so on. The proposed project aims at building a more advanced and contributor/developer friendly version of Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data application with the aforementioned features. The new version of Malayalagrandham will be a crowd sourced Internet Book Database. It will have features to export data to various formats such as MARC21 and MARCXML.

The application essentially will have the following interfaces.

1. Interface for the task force
<blockquote>
Task force is a group of people with administrative privileges. These admins should be able to select the right submission from crowd sourced data and they should be able to moderate any the contents in the web application. They should also be able to visualize existing data.
</blockquote>
2. Interface for contributor
<blockquote>
Any person should be able to become a contributor by signing up using his/her email ID. Contributor should be able to add new bibliography information and post comments/reviews through the feedback system. He should also be able to upload cover photos of books.
</blockquote>
3. Interface for Publisher
<blockquote>
Publishers should be able to add bibliography information of the books they publish. They should also be able to generate QR code that links to specific book's page.
</blockquote>
4. Interface for Librarian
<blockquote>
Librarians should be able to update the location of the books in Malayalagrandham.
</blockquote>
All the data in Malayalagrandham will be open to Public. But users need special permission (admin privileges) to modify the existing approved data.

=== The need you believe it fulfills ===
Apart from the bibliographic information it provides, Malayalagrandham would help people to locate books easily. Building a new version this application has the following benefits:

# It will be easy for users to contribute new data
# REFTul API makes the application developer friendly. The API will enable developers to write client applications across platforms.
# We will have a centralized location of information of many books in a breadth of languages.
# It will be easy to perform complex searches to locate specific books.
# The feedback feature attracts more engagement/dicussion from users.
# QR code for each book would help the user to locate its Malayagrandham page

=== Any relevant experience you have ===

I've industrial experiencing in building and deploying Ruby on Rails web applications. I also have learned about MARC21/MARCXML formats and ISBN.

=== How you intend to implement your proposal ===
Technology stack is Ruby on Rails web framework with MySQL backend. We will be using the following Open Source gems and modules :

# devise - User Authorization
# ruby-marc - Read and Write in MARC Format
# marc21-utils - MARC Validation
# ferret - Text Search
# Jbuilder - DSL to configure JSON API
# rqrcode - QR code generator
# Twitter Bootstrap - Front end Framework

=== A rough timeline for your progress with phases ===
==== Jun 17 - Jun 30 ====
<blockquote>
Resume the development on the existing application I wrote for this project and design the remaining parts of the software.
</blockquote>

==== Jul 1 - Jul 15====
<blockquote>
Implement the application logic as per the design and start focusing on API
</blockquote>
==== July 16 - Jul 31====
<blockquote>
Implement the basic API and get the functionalities working in the back end
Test the built features and fix bugs for mid term evaluation
</blockquote>
==== Aug 1 - Aug 20====
<blockquote>
Build advanced features such as crowd sourcing support, data export and QR support
</blockquote>
==== Aug 21 - Sept 5====
<blockquote>
Implement basic UI for Task force, Publisher, Contributor and Librarian.
Focus more on UX, get the minute details working properly.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 5 - Sept 12====
<blockquote>
Control the access to the site pragmatically and do a security auditing.
Polish the interface and all features should be working by now.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 13 - Sept 27 ====
<blockquote>
Review code, fix bugs and get ready for final evaluation.
</blockquote>
=== Any other details you feel we should consider ===
It will be great if we can sync Malayagrandham with Wikisource. We can also link to Public Domain books in Malayagrandham pages.

=== Tell us about something you have created. ===
# [http://quizgrid.com QuizGrid.com] is a social network I built using Ruby on Rails and MySQL. More details are [http://ershadk.com/blog/2013/01/21/announcing-quizgrid-dot-com/ here]
# [http://myfest.in Myfest.in] is a college fest aggregator I built using the same technology stack. It's quite popular in India and it has got thousands of hits in a short span of time.
# I built a [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikimedia-input-method-ex/cealbihienhpnlglmhmmmlbjdcjfjkap chrome extension] for language transliteration using Wikimedia's jQueryIME library and it won 'The most innovative project' award in Wikimedia Dev Camp held at IIM bangalore

I've also some open source contributions, please find them in my [http://github.com/ershad github] profile

=== Have you communicated with a potential mentor? If so, who? ===
Yes, I've communicated with Anivar Aravind.

=== SMC Wiki link of your proposal ===
http://wiki.smc.org.in/User:Ershad/GSoC2013_Malayalagrandham

User:Ershad/GSoC2013 Malayalagrandham

2013-04-24T14:39:35Z

Ershad: /* SMC Wiki link of your proposal */

'''Google Summer of Code 2013 Proposal for Swathanthra Malalayalam Computing'''

==Personal Information==
Email Address: ershad92@gmail.com
Telephone: +91 8089133362
Blog URL: http://ershadk.com
Freenode IRC Nick: ershad
University and current education: BSc Computer Science, Bharathiyar University

=== Why do you want to work with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing? ===
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is contributing much to Indic languages and language computing, it's great to be a part of it.

=== Do you have any past involvement with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing or another open source project as a contributor? ===
Yes. I've contributed to Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, MediaWiki and a couple of other open source projects.

=== Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations? ===
No, I've not participated in GSoC programs before.

=== Do you have other obligations between May and August ? Please note that we expect the Summer of Code to be a full time, 40 hour a week commitment ===
It will be possible for me to work 35-40 hours / Week.

=== Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing after the GSoC 2013 program, if yes, which area(s), you are interested in? ===
I've been contributing to SMC, I will definitely continue that. My interested areas include Language Computing, SILPA and translation.

=== Why should we choose you over other applicants? ===
I've been a FOSS enthusiast for years and have been continuously trying for ways to contribute to it. GSoC will be a great platform for me to contribute more.

This proposal is meant for Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data project. I'm planning to do it in Ruby on Rails in which I'm well versed and have more than 1 year of experience. I also have a track record of doing end-to-end hobby projects in Ruby on Rails.

And right the at moment, I've done its backend and wrote scripts to import data from old database. It will be easy for me to build upon that.

== Proposal Description ==
=== An overview of your proposal ===
Malayalagrandham.com is a web application to store and process bibliography data of books. Currently it has a growing database with information of more than 50K books. The current live application was built a few years before and it lacks features such as crowd sourcing, RESTFul API, Feedback, Visualization and so on. The proposed project aims at building a more advanced and contributor/developer friendly version of Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data application with the aforementioned features. The new version of Malayalagrandham will be a crowd sourced Internet Book Database. It will have features to export data to various formats such as MARC21 and MARCXML.

The application essentially will have the following interfaces.

1. Interface for the task force
<blockquote>
Task force is a group of people with administrative privileges. These admins should be able to select the right submission from crowd sourced data and they should be able to moderate any the contents in the web application. They should also be able to visualize existing data.
</blockquote>
2. Interface for contributor
<blockquote>
Any person should be able to become a contributor by signing up using his/her email ID. Contributor should be able to add new bibliography information and post comments/reviews through the feedback system. He should also be able to upload cover photos of books.
</blockquote>
3. Interface for Publisher
<blockquote>
Publishers should be able to add bibliography information of the books they publish. They should also be able to generate QR code that links to specific book's page.
</blockquote>
4. Interface for Librarian
<blockquote>
Librarians should be able to update the location of the books in Malayalagrandham.
</blockquote>
All the data in Malayalagrandham will be open to Public. But users need special permission (admin privileges) to modify the existing approved data.

=== The need you believe it fulfills ===
Apart from the bibliographic information it provides, Malayalagrandham would help people to locate books easily. Building a new version this application has the following benefits:

# It will be easy for users to contribute new data
# REFTul API makes the application developer friendly. The API will enable developers to write client applications across platforms.
# We will have a centralized location of information of many books in a breadth of languages.
# It will be easy to perform complex searches to locate specific books.
# The feedback feature attracts more engagement/dicussion from users.
# QR code for each book would help the user to locate its Malayagrandham page

=== Any relevant experience you have ===

I've industrial experiencing in building and deploying Ruby on Rails web applications. I also have learned about MARC21/MARCXML formats and ISBN.

=== How you intend to implement your proposal ===
Our technology stack is Ruby on Rails web framework with MySQL backend. We will be using the following Open Source gems and modules :

# devise - User Authorization
# ruby-marc - Read and Write in MARC Format
# marc21-utils - MARC Validation
# ferret - Text Search
# Jbuilder - DSL to configure JSON API
# rqrcode - QR code generator
# Twitter Bootstrap - Front end Framework

=== A rough timeline for your progress with phases ===
==== Jun 17 - Jun 30 ====
<blockquote>
Resume the development on the existing application I wrote for this project and design the remaining parts of the software.
</blockquote>

==== Jul 1 - Jul 15====
<blockquote>
Implement the application logic as per the design and start focusing on API
</blockquote>
==== July 16 - Jul 31====
<blockquote>
Implement the basic API and get the functionalities working in the back end
Test the built features and fix bugs for mid term evaluation
</blockquote>
==== Aug 1 - Aug 20====
<blockquote>
Build advanced features such as crowd sourcing support, data export and QR support
</blockquote>
==== Aug 21 - Sept 5====
<blockquote>
Implement basic UI for Task force, Publisher, Contributor and Librarian.
Focus more on UX, get the minute details working properly.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 5 - Sept 12====
<blockquote>
Control the access to the site pragmatically and do a security auditing.
Polish the interface and all features should be working by now.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 13 - Sept 27 ====
<blockquote>
Review code, fix bugs and get ready for final evaluation.
</blockquote>
=== Any other details you feel we should consider ===
It will be great if we can sync Malayagrandham with Wikisource. We can also link to Public Domain books in Malayagrandham pages.

=== Tell us about something you have created. ===
# [http://quizgrid.com QuizGrid.com] is a social network I built using Ruby on Rails and MySQL. More details are [http://ershadk.com/blog/2013/01/21/announcing-quizgrid-dot-com/ here]
# [http://myfest.in Myfest.in] is a college fest aggregator I built using the same technology stack. It's quite popular in India and it has got thousands of hits in a short span of time.
# I built a [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikimedia-input-method-ex/cealbihienhpnlglmhmmmlbjdcjfjkap chrome extension] for language transliteration using Wikimedia's jQueryIME library and it won 'The most innovative project' award in Wikimedia Dev Camp held at IIM bangalore

I've also some open source contributions, please find them in my [http://github.com/ershad github] profile

=== Have you communicated with a potential mentor? If so, who? ===
Yes, I've communicated with Anivar Aravind.

=== SMC Wiki link of your proposal ===
http://wiki.smc.org.in/User:Ershad/GSoC2013_Malayalagrandham

User:Ershad/GSoC2013 Malayalagrandham

2013-04-24T14:38:54Z

Ershad: /* Have you communicated with a potential mentor? If so, who? */

'''Google Summer of Code 2013 Proposal for Swathanthra Malalayalam Computing'''

==Personal Information==
Email Address: ershad92@gmail.com
Telephone: +91 8089133362
Blog URL: http://ershadk.com
Freenode IRC Nick: ershad
University and current education: BSc Computer Science, Bharathiyar University

=== Why do you want to work with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing? ===
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is contributing much to Indic languages and language computing, it's great to be a part of it.

=== Do you have any past involvement with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing or another open source project as a contributor? ===
Yes. I've contributed to Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, MediaWiki and a couple of other open source projects.

=== Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations? ===
No, I've not participated in GSoC programs before.

=== Do you have other obligations between May and August ? Please note that we expect the Summer of Code to be a full time, 40 hour a week commitment ===
It will be possible for me to work 35-40 hours / Week.

=== Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing after the GSoC 2013 program, if yes, which area(s), you are interested in? ===
I've been contributing to SMC, I will definitely continue that. My interested areas include Language Computing, SILPA and translation.

=== Why should we choose you over other applicants? ===
I've been a FOSS enthusiast for years and have been continuously trying for ways to contribute to it. GSoC will be a great platform for me to contribute more.

This proposal is meant for Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data project. I'm planning to do it in Ruby on Rails in which I'm well versed and have more than 1 year of experience. I also have a track record of doing end-to-end hobby projects in Ruby on Rails.

And right the at moment, I've done its backend and wrote scripts to import data from old database. It will be easy for me to build upon that.

== Proposal Description ==
=== An overview of your proposal ===
Malayalagrandham.com is a web application to store and process bibliography data of books. Currently it has a growing database with information of more than 50K books. The current live application was built a few years before and it lacks features such as crowd sourcing, RESTFul API, Feedback, Visualization and so on. The proposed project aims at building a more advanced and contributor/developer friendly version of Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data application with the aforementioned features. The new version of Malayalagrandham will be a crowd sourced Internet Book Database. It will have features to export data to various formats such as MARC21 and MARCXML.

The application essentially will have the following interfaces.

1. Interface for the task force
<blockquote>
Task force is a group of people with administrative privileges. These admins should be able to select the right submission from crowd sourced data and they should be able to moderate any the contents in the web application. They should also be able to visualize existing data.
</blockquote>
2. Interface for contributor
<blockquote>
Any person should be able to become a contributor by signing up using his/her email ID. Contributor should be able to add new bibliography information and post comments/reviews through the feedback system. He should also be able to upload cover photos of books.
</blockquote>
3. Interface for Publisher
<blockquote>
Publishers should be able to add bibliography information of the books they publish. They should also be able to generate QR code that links to specific book's page.
</blockquote>
4. Interface for Librarian
<blockquote>
Librarians should be able to update the location of the books in Malayalagrandham.
</blockquote>
All the data in Malayalagrandham will be open to Public. But users need special permission (admin privileges) to modify the existing approved data.

=== The need you believe it fulfills ===
Apart from the bibliographic information it provides, Malayalagrandham would help people to locate books easily. Building a new version this application has the following benefits:

# It will be easy for users to contribute new data
# REFTul API makes the application developer friendly. The API will enable developers to write client applications across platforms.
# We will have a centralized location of information of many books in a breadth of languages.
# It will be easy to perform complex searches to locate specific books.
# The feedback feature attracts more engagement/dicussion from users.
# QR code for each book would help the user to locate its Malayagrandham page

=== Any relevant experience you have ===

I've industrial experiencing in building and deploying Ruby on Rails web applications. I also have learned about MARC21/MARCXML formats and ISBN.

=== How you intend to implement your proposal ===
Our technology stack is Ruby on Rails web framework with MySQL backend. We will be using the following Open Source gems and modules :

# devise - User Authorization
# ruby-marc - Read and Write in MARC Format
# marc21-utils - MARC Validation
# ferret - Text Search
# Jbuilder - DSL to configure JSON API
# rqrcode - QR code generator
# Twitter Bootstrap - Front end Framework

=== A rough timeline for your progress with phases ===
==== Jun 17 - Jun 30 ====
<blockquote>
Resume the development on the existing application I wrote for this project and design the remaining parts of the software.
</blockquote>

==== Jul 1 - Jul 15====
<blockquote>
Implement the application logic as per the design and start focusing on API
</blockquote>
==== July 16 - Jul 31====
<blockquote>
Implement the basic API and get the functionalities working in the back end
Test the built features and fix bugs for mid term evaluation
</blockquote>
==== Aug 1 - Aug 20====
<blockquote>
Build advanced features such as crowd sourcing support, data export and QR support
</blockquote>
==== Aug 21 - Sept 5====
<blockquote>
Implement basic UI for Task force, Publisher, Contributor and Librarian.
Focus more on UX, get the minute details working properly.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 5 - Sept 12====
<blockquote>
Control the access to the site pragmatically and do a security auditing.
Polish the interface and all features should be working by now.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 13 - Sept 27 ====
<blockquote>
Review code, fix bugs and get ready for final evaluation.
</blockquote>
=== Any other details you feel we should consider ===
It will be great if we can sync Malayagrandham with Wikisource. We can also link to Public Domain books in Malayagrandham pages.

=== Tell us about something you have created. ===
# [http://quizgrid.com QuizGrid.com] is a social network I built using Ruby on Rails and MySQL. More details are [http://ershadk.com/blog/2013/01/21/announcing-quizgrid-dot-com/ here]
# [http://myfest.in Myfest.in] is a college fest aggregator I built using the same technology stack. It's quite popular in India and it has got thousands of hits in a short span of time.
# I built a [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikimedia-input-method-ex/cealbihienhpnlglmhmmmlbjdcjfjkap chrome extension] for language transliteration using Wikimedia's jQueryIME library and it won 'The most innovative project' award in Wikimedia Dev Camp held at IIM bangalore

I've also some open source contributions, please find them in my [http://github.com/ershad github] profile

=== Have you communicated with a potential mentor? If so, who? ===
Yes, I've communicated with Anivar Aravind.

=== SMC Wiki link of your proposal ===

User:Ershad/GSoC2013 Malayalagrandham

2013-04-24T14:37:10Z

Ershad: /* Tell us about something you have created. */

'''Google Summer of Code 2013 Proposal for Swathanthra Malalayalam Computing'''

==Personal Information==
Email Address: ershad92@gmail.com
Telephone: +91 8089133362
Blog URL: http://ershadk.com
Freenode IRC Nick: ershad
University and current education: BSc Computer Science, Bharathiyar University

=== Why do you want to work with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing? ===
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is contributing much to Indic languages and language computing, it's great to be a part of it.

=== Do you have any past involvement with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing or another open source project as a contributor? ===
Yes. I've contributed to Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, MediaWiki and a couple of other open source projects.

=== Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations? ===
No, I've not participated in GSoC programs before.

=== Do you have other obligations between May and August ? Please note that we expect the Summer of Code to be a full time, 40 hour a week commitment ===
It will be possible for me to work 35-40 hours / Week.

=== Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing after the GSoC 2013 program, if yes, which area(s), you are interested in? ===
I've been contributing to SMC, I will definitely continue that. My interested areas include Language Computing, SILPA and translation.

=== Why should we choose you over other applicants? ===
I've been a FOSS enthusiast for years and have been continuously trying for ways to contribute to it. GSoC will be a great platform for me to contribute more.

This proposal is meant for Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data project. I'm planning to do it in Ruby on Rails in which I'm well versed and have more than 1 year of experience. I also have a track record of doing end-to-end hobby projects in Ruby on Rails.

And right the at moment, I've done its backend and wrote scripts to import data from old database. It will be easy for me to build upon that.

== Proposal Description ==
=== An overview of your proposal ===
Malayalagrandham.com is a web application to store and process bibliography data of books. Currently it has a growing database with information of more than 50K books. The current live application was built a few years before and it lacks features such as crowd sourcing, RESTFul API, Feedback, Visualization and so on. The proposed project aims at building a more advanced and contributor/developer friendly version of Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data application with the aforementioned features. The new version of Malayalagrandham will be a crowd sourced Internet Book Database. It will have features to export data to various formats such as MARC21 and MARCXML.

The application essentially will have the following interfaces.

1. Interface for the task force
<blockquote>
Task force is a group of people with administrative privileges. These admins should be able to select the right submission from crowd sourced data and they should be able to moderate any the contents in the web application. They should also be able to visualize existing data.
</blockquote>
2. Interface for contributor
<blockquote>
Any person should be able to become a contributor by signing up using his/her email ID. Contributor should be able to add new bibliography information and post comments/reviews through the feedback system. He should also be able to upload cover photos of books.
</blockquote>
3. Interface for Publisher
<blockquote>
Publishers should be able to add bibliography information of the books they publish. They should also be able to generate QR code that links to specific book's page.
</blockquote>
4. Interface for Librarian
<blockquote>
Librarians should be able to update the location of the books in Malayalagrandham.
</blockquote>
All the data in Malayalagrandham will be open to Public. But users need special permission (admin privileges) to modify the existing approved data.

=== The need you believe it fulfills ===
Apart from the bibliographic information it provides, Malayalagrandham would help people to locate books easily. Building a new version this application has the following benefits:

# It will be easy for users to contribute new data
# REFTul API makes the application developer friendly. The API will enable developers to write client applications across platforms.
# We will have a centralized location of information of many books in a breadth of languages.
# It will be easy to perform complex searches to locate specific books.
# The feedback feature attracts more engagement/dicussion from users.
# QR code for each book would help the user to locate its Malayagrandham page

=== Any relevant experience you have ===

I've industrial experiencing in building and deploying Ruby on Rails web applications. I also have learned about MARC21/MARCXML formats and ISBN.

=== How you intend to implement your proposal ===
Our technology stack is Ruby on Rails web framework with MySQL backend. We will be using the following Open Source gems and modules :

# devise - User Authorization
# ruby-marc - Read and Write in MARC Format
# marc21-utils - MARC Validation
# ferret - Text Search
# Jbuilder - DSL to configure JSON API
# rqrcode - QR code generator
# Twitter Bootstrap - Front end Framework

=== A rough timeline for your progress with phases ===
==== Jun 17 - Jun 30 ====
<blockquote>
Resume the development on the existing application I wrote for this project and design the remaining parts of the software.
</blockquote>

==== Jul 1 - Jul 15====
<blockquote>
Implement the application logic as per the design and start focusing on API
</blockquote>
==== July 16 - Jul 31====
<blockquote>
Implement the basic API and get the functionalities working in the back end
Test the built features and fix bugs for mid term evaluation
</blockquote>
==== Aug 1 - Aug 20====
<blockquote>
Build advanced features such as crowd sourcing support, data export and QR support
</blockquote>
==== Aug 21 - Sept 5====
<blockquote>
Implement basic UI for Task force, Publisher, Contributor and Librarian.
Focus more on UX, get the minute details working properly.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 5 - Sept 12====
<blockquote>
Control the access to the site pragmatically and do a security auditing.
Polish the interface and all features should be working by now.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 13 - Sept 27 ====
<blockquote>
Review code, fix bugs and get ready for final evaluation.
</blockquote>
=== Any other details you feel we should consider ===
It will be great if we can sync Malayagrandham with Wikisource. We can also link to Public Domain books in Malayagrandham pages.

=== Tell us about something you have created. ===
# [http://quizgrid.com QuizGrid.com] is a social network I built using Ruby on Rails and MySQL. More details are [http://ershadk.com/blog/2013/01/21/announcing-quizgrid-dot-com/ here]
# [http://myfest.in Myfest.in] is a college fest aggregator I built using the same technology stack. It's quite popular in India and it has got thousands of hits in a short span of time.
# I built a [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikimedia-input-method-ex/cealbihienhpnlglmhmmmlbjdcjfjkap chrome extension] for language transliteration using Wikimedia's jQueryIME library and it won 'The most innovative project' award in Wikimedia Dev Camp held at IIM bangalore

I've also some open source contributions, please find them in my [http://github.com/ershad github] profile

=== Have you communicated with a potential mentor? If so, who? ===
=== SMC Wiki link of your proposal ===

User:Ershad/GSoC2013 Malayalagrandham

2013-04-24T14:28:21Z

Ershad: /* Any other details you feel we should consider */

'''Google Summer of Code 2013 Proposal for Swathanthra Malalayalam Computing'''

==Personal Information==
Email Address: ershad92@gmail.com
Telephone: +91 8089133362
Blog URL: http://ershadk.com
Freenode IRC Nick: ershad
University and current education: BSc Computer Science, Bharathiyar University

=== Why do you want to work with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing? ===
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is contributing much to Indic languages and language computing, it's great to be a part of it.

=== Do you have any past involvement with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing or another open source project as a contributor? ===
Yes. I've contributed to Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, MediaWiki and a couple of other open source projects.

=== Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations? ===
No, I've not participated in GSoC programs before.

=== Do you have other obligations between May and August ? Please note that we expect the Summer of Code to be a full time, 40 hour a week commitment ===
It will be possible for me to work 35-40 hours / Week.

=== Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing after the GSoC 2013 program, if yes, which area(s), you are interested in? ===
I've been contributing to SMC, I will definitely continue that. My interested areas include Language Computing, SILPA and translation.

=== Why should we choose you over other applicants? ===
I've been a FOSS enthusiast for years and have been continuously trying for ways to contribute to it. GSoC will be a great platform for me to contribute more.

This proposal is meant for Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data project. I'm planning to do it in Ruby on Rails in which I'm well versed and have more than 1 year of experience. I also have a track record of doing end-to-end hobby projects in Ruby on Rails.

And right the at moment, I've done its backend and wrote scripts to import data from old database. It will be easy for me to build upon that.

== Proposal Description ==
=== An overview of your proposal ===
Malayalagrandham.com is a web application to store and process bibliography data of books. Currently it has a growing database with information of more than 50K books. The current live application was built a few years before and it lacks features such as crowd sourcing, RESTFul API, Feedback, Visualization and so on. The proposed project aims at building a more advanced and contributor/developer friendly version of Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data application with the aforementioned features. The new version of Malayalagrandham will be a crowd sourced Internet Book Database. It will have features to export data to various formats such as MARC21 and MARCXML.

The application essentially will have the following interfaces.

1. Interface for the task force
<blockquote>
Task force is a group of people with administrative privileges. These admins should be able to select the right submission from crowd sourced data and they should be able to moderate any the contents in the web application. They should also be able to visualize existing data.
</blockquote>
2. Interface for contributor
<blockquote>
Any person should be able to become a contributor by signing up using his/her email ID. Contributor should be able to add new bibliography information and post comments/reviews through the feedback system. He should also be able to upload cover photos of books.
</blockquote>
3. Interface for Publisher
<blockquote>
Publishers should be able to add bibliography information of the books they publish. They should also be able to generate QR code that links to specific book's page.
</blockquote>
4. Interface for Librarian
<blockquote>
Librarians should be able to update the location of the books in Malayalagrandham.
</blockquote>
All the data in Malayalagrandham will be open to Public. But users need special permission (admin privileges) to modify the existing approved data.

=== The need you believe it fulfills ===
Apart from the bibliographic information it provides, Malayalagrandham would help people to locate books easily. Building a new version this application has the following benefits:

# It will be easy for users to contribute new data
# REFTul API makes the application developer friendly. The API will enable developers to write client applications across platforms.
# We will have a centralized location of information of many books in a breadth of languages.
# It will be easy to perform complex searches to locate specific books.
# The feedback feature attracts more engagement/dicussion from users.
# QR code for each book would help the user to locate its Malayagrandham page

=== Any relevant experience you have ===

I've industrial experiencing in building and deploying Ruby on Rails web applications. I also have learned about MARC21/MARCXML formats and ISBN.

=== How you intend to implement your proposal ===
Our technology stack is Ruby on Rails web framework with MySQL backend. We will be using the following Open Source gems and modules :

# devise - User Authorization
# ruby-marc - Read and Write in MARC Format
# marc21-utils - MARC Validation
# ferret - Text Search
# Jbuilder - DSL to configure JSON API
# rqrcode - QR code generator
# Twitter Bootstrap - Front end Framework

=== A rough timeline for your progress with phases ===
==== Jun 17 - Jun 30 ====
<blockquote>
Resume the development on the existing application I wrote for this project and design the remaining parts of the software.
</blockquote>

==== Jul 1 - Jul 15====
<blockquote>
Implement the application logic as per the design and start focusing on API
</blockquote>
==== July 16 - Jul 31====
<blockquote>
Implement the basic API and get the functionalities working in the back end
Test the built features and fix bugs for mid term evaluation
</blockquote>
==== Aug 1 - Aug 20====
<blockquote>
Build advanced features such as crowd sourcing support, data export and QR support
</blockquote>
==== Aug 21 - Sept 5====
<blockquote>
Implement basic UI for Task force, Publisher, Contributor and Librarian.
Focus more on UX, get the minute details working properly.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 5 - Sept 12====
<blockquote>
Control the access to the site pragmatically and do a security auditing.
Polish the interface and all features should be working by now.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 13 - Sept 27 ====
<blockquote>
Review code, fix bugs and get ready for final evaluation.
</blockquote>
=== Any other details you feel we should consider ===
It will be great if we can sync Malayagrandham with Wikisource. We can also link to Public Domain books in Malayagrandham pages.

=== Tell us about something you have created. ===
=== Have you communicated with a potential mentor? If so, who? ===
=== SMC Wiki link of your proposal ===

User:Ershad/GSoC2013 Malayalagrandham

2013-04-24T14:26:31Z

Ershad:

'''Google Summer of Code 2013 Proposal for Swathanthra Malalayalam Computing'''

==Personal Information==
Email Address: ershad92@gmail.com
Telephone: +91 8089133362
Blog URL: http://ershadk.com
Freenode IRC Nick: ershad
University and current education: BSc Computer Science, Bharathiyar University

=== Why do you want to work with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing? ===
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is contributing much to Indic languages and language computing, it's great to be a part of it.

=== Do you have any past involvement with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing or another open source project as a contributor? ===
Yes. I've contributed to Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, MediaWiki and a couple of other open source projects.

=== Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations? ===
No, I've not participated in GSoC programs before.

=== Do you have other obligations between May and August ? Please note that we expect the Summer of Code to be a full time, 40 hour a week commitment ===
It will be possible for me to work 35-40 hours / Week.

=== Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing after the GSoC 2013 program, if yes, which area(s), you are interested in? ===
I've been contributing to SMC, I will definitely continue that. My interested areas include Language Computing, SILPA and translation.

=== Why should we choose you over other applicants? ===
I've been a FOSS enthusiast for years and have been continuously trying for ways to contribute to it. GSoC will be a great platform for me to contribute more.

This proposal is meant for Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data project. I'm planning to do it in Ruby on Rails in which I'm well versed and have more than 1 year of experience. I also have a track record of doing end-to-end hobby projects in Ruby on Rails.

And right the at moment, I've done its backend and wrote scripts to import data from old database. It will be easy for me to build upon that.

== Proposal Description ==
=== An overview of your proposal ===
Malayalagrandham.com is a web application to store and process bibliography data of books. Currently it has a growing database with information of more than 50K books. The current live application was built a few years before and it lacks features such as crowd sourcing, RESTFul API, Feedback, Visualization and so on. The proposed project aims at building a more advanced and contributor/developer friendly version of Malayalagrandham Bibliography Data application with the aforementioned features. The new version of Malayalagrandham will be a crowd sourced Internet Book Database. It will have features to export data to various formats such as MARC21 and MARCXML.

The application essentially will have the following interfaces.

1. Interface for the task force
<blockquote>
Task force is a group of people with administrative privileges. These admins should be able to select the right submission from crowd sourced data and they should be able to moderate any the contents in the web application. They should also be able to visualize existing data.
</blockquote>
2. Interface for contributor
<blockquote>
Any person should be able to become a contributor by signing up using his/her email ID. Contributor should be able to add new bibliography information and post comments/reviews through the feedback system. He should also be able to upload cover photos of books.
</blockquote>
3. Interface for Publisher
<blockquote>
Publishers should be able to add bibliography information of the books they publish. They should also be able to generate QR code that links to specific book's page.
</blockquote>
4. Interface for Librarian
<blockquote>
Librarians should be able to update the location of the books in Malayalagrandham.
</blockquote>
All the data in Malayalagrandham will be open to Public. But users need special permission (admin privileges) to modify the existing approved data.

=== The need you believe it fulfills ===
Apart from the bibliographic information it provides, Malayalagrandham would help people to locate books easily. Building a new version this application has the following benefits:

# It will be easy for users to contribute new data
# REFTul API makes the application developer friendly. The API will enable developers to write client applications across platforms.
# We will have a centralized location of information of many books in a breadth of languages.
# It will be easy to perform complex searches to locate specific books.
# The feedback feature attracts more engagement/dicussion from users.
# QR code for each book would help the user to locate its Malayagrandham page

=== Any relevant experience you have ===

I've industrial experiencing in building and deploying Ruby on Rails web applications. I also have learned about MARC21/MARCXML formats and ISBN.

=== How you intend to implement your proposal ===
Our technology stack is Ruby on Rails web framework with MySQL backend. We will be using the following Open Source gems and modules :

# devise - User Authorization
# ruby-marc - Read and Write in MARC Format
# marc21-utils - MARC Validation
# ferret - Text Search
# Jbuilder - DSL to configure JSON API
# rqrcode - QR code generator
# Twitter Bootstrap - Front end Framework

=== A rough timeline for your progress with phases ===
==== Jun 17 - Jun 30 ====
<blockquote>
Resume the development on the existing application I wrote for this project and design the remaining parts of the software.
</blockquote>

==== Jul 1 - Jul 15====
<blockquote>
Implement the application logic as per the design and start focusing on API
</blockquote>
==== July 16 - Jul 31====
<blockquote>
Implement the basic API and get the functionalities working in the back end
Test the built features and fix bugs for mid term evaluation
</blockquote>
==== Aug 1 - Aug 20====
<blockquote>
Build advanced features such as crowd sourcing support, data export and QR support
</blockquote>
==== Aug 21 - Sept 5====
<blockquote>
Implement basic UI for Task force, Publisher, Contributor and Librarian.
Focus more on UX, get the minute details working properly.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 5 - Sept 12====
<blockquote>
Control the access to the site pragmatically and do a security auditing.
Polish the interface and all features should be working by now.
</blockquote>
==== Sept 13 - Sept 27 ====
<blockquote>
Review code, fix bugs and get ready for final evaluation.
</blockquote>
=== Any other details you feel we should consider ===
=== Tell us about something you have created. ===
=== Have you communicated with a potential mentor? If so, who? ===
=== SMC Wiki link of your proposal ===

User:Ershad/GSoC2013 Malayalagrandham

2013-04-24T14:02:33Z

Ershad: /* How you intend to implement your proposal */

User:Ershad/GSoC2013 Malayalagrandham

2013-04-24T13:59:46Z

Ershad:

2010-06-24T05:23:19Z

Ershad:

Reading Problems? Want to edit in malayalam? see [[മലയാളം/സഹായം |help]] setting up malayalam fonts, input and rendering

കെഡിഇ മലയാളം [[പ്രധാനതാള്‍| സ്വതന്ത്ര മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങി]]ലെ ഒരംഗമാണു്. സ്വതന്ത്ര കമ്പ്യൂട്ടര്‍ പ്രവര്‍ത്തക സംവിധാനങ്ങള്‍ക്കായുള്ള കെഡിഇ പണിയിടം മലയാളത്തില്‍ ലഭ്യമാക്കുകയാണു് ഈ ഉപസംരംഭത്തിന്റെ ലക്ഷ്യം. ഈ ഉപസംരംഭത്തിലെ അംഗങ്ങളുടെ നാമാവലി [http://l10n.kde.org/team-infos.php?teamcode=ml ഇവിടെ]. നിങ്ങള്‍ക്കും ഇതിലംഗമാകാവുന്നതാണു്. ഗ്നോം നൂറടിയ്ക്കുന്നതിനു് മുമ്പേ നൂറടിയ്ക്കുക എന്നതാണു് കെഡിഇ മലയാളത്തിന്റെ ഒരു ലക്ഷ്യം. നിങ്ങളുടെ സജീവ പങ്കാളിത്തമില്ലാതെ ഈ ലക്ഷ്യം കൈവരിയ്ക്കാന്‍ സാധ്യമല്ല. കെഡിഇയെ എപ്പോഴും ഒരു രണ്ടാം തരക്കാരനായി കണക്കാക്കുന്നതായി നിങ്ങള്‍ക്കു് തോന്നിയിട്ടുണ്ടോ? ഒരു കെഡിഇ പ്രേമിയാണെങ്കില്‍ അതിനൊരു മാറ്റം വരുത്താനിതാ നിങ്ങള്‍ക്കൊരവസരം. ഇനിയും മടിച്ചു് നില്‍ക്കാതെ ഇന്നു് തന്നെ ഒരു ഫയല്‍ പരിഭാഷപ്പെടുത്തിത്തുടങ്ങൂ.

പരിഭാഷ ചെയ്യേണ്ട ഫയലുകള്‍ [http://l10n.kde.org/stats/gui/trunk-kde4/team/ml/ ഇവിടെ] ലഭ്യമാണ്.

ആദ്യമായി മലയാളം കെഡിഇയില്‍ ഉള്‍പ്പെടുത്തുന്നതിനായി [http://l10n.kde.org/stats/gui/trunk-kde4/essential/ ഏറ്റവും പ്രധാനപ്പെട്ട] ഫയലുകളുടെ പരിഭാഷ പൂര്‍ത്തിയായിരിയ്ക്കണം. ഈ ഉപസംരംഭത്തില്‍ പങ്കുചേരാന്‍ നിങ്ങളാഗ്രഹിയ്ക്കുന്നെങ്കില്‍ [http://l10n.kde.org/stats/gui/trunk-kde4/team/ml/kdebase/index.php കെഡിഇബേസിലെ] ഏതെങ്കിലും ഒരു ഫയല്‍ പരിഭാഷപ്പെടുത്തി തുടങ്ങാം. നിങ്ങള്‍ തിരഞ്ഞെടുത്ത ഫയല്‍ തന്നെ വേറൊരാള്‍ കൂടി പരിഭാഷപ്പെടുത്തുന്നതൊഴിവാക്കാന്‍ താഴെ നിങ്ങളുടെ പേരും പരിഭാഷപ്പെടുത്തുന്ന ഫയലും ചേര്‍ക്കുക.

[[സ്വതന്ത്ര_മലയാളം_കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങ്/പ്രാദേശികവത്കരണ_പ്രക്രിയാ_നടപടിക്രമങ്ങള്‍|പ്രാദേശികവത്കരണ പ്രക്രിയാ നടപടിക്രമങ്ങള്‍]] എന്ന കണ്ണിയില്‍ പൊതുവായുള്ള കൂടുതല്‍ വിവരങ്ങളുണ്ടു്. കെഡിഇ സംഭരണിയില്‍ പരിഭാഷകള്‍ ചേര്‍ക്കാന്‍ അനുമതിയുള്ള അംഗങ്ങളാണു് മാക്സിന്‍ ബി ജോണും പ്രവീണും അനി പീറ്ററും ശരതി ലക്ഷ്മണും.

കെഡിഇ പരിഭാഷ ചെയ്തുകൊണ്ടിരിയ്ക്കുന്ന ഭാഷകളില്‍ 59 മതു് സ്ഥാനമാണു് നമ്മള്‍ക്കിപ്പോഴുള്ളതു്. ആകെ 101 ഭാഷകളുള്ളതില്‍ ഒന്നാം സ്ഥാനത്തു് നില്‍ക്കുന്നതു് പോര്‍ച്ചുഗീസും ഉക്രേനിയനും ഇന്ത്യന്‍ ഭാഷകളില്‍ ഒന്നാം സ്ഥാനത്തു് നില്‍ക്കുന്നതു് തമിഴുമാണു്. എല്ലാ ഭാഷകളുമുള്‍പ്പെടുത്തിയ പട്ടിക [http://l10n.kde.org/stats/gui/trunk-kde4/toplist/ ഇവിടെ]

==ശ്രദ്ധിയ്ക്കുക==
l10n.kde.org പലപ്പോഴും പ്രവര്‍ത്തനരഹിതമായതിനാല്‍ [http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/l10n-kde4/templates/messages/ ഇവിടെ] നിന്നും ഫയലുകളെടുക്കാവുന്നതാണു്.
പക്ഷേ എടുക്കുന്നതിനു് മുമ്പു് [http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/l10n-kde4/ml/messages/ ഇവിടെ] നോക്കി അതു് നേരത്തെ പരിഭാഷ ചെയ്തിട്ടില്ലെന്നുറപ്പു് വരുത്തുക.
മുഴുവനല്ലാത്ത പരിഭാഷകള്‍ പരിഭാഷകള്‍ പൂര്‍ത്തിയാക്കാനോ, മുഴുവനായവ മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്താനോ സഹായിയ്ക്കാവുന്നതാണു്.
kdebase ല്‍ പരിഭാഷപ്പെടുത്തിയിട്ടുള്ള ഫയലുകളുടെ പട്ടിക [http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/smc/kdebase-list.txt ഇവിടെ]. kdebase ല്‍ നിന്നും ഒരു
ഫയല്‍ പരിഭാഷപ്പെടുത്താനെടുക്കുന്നതിനു് മുമ്പു് ഈ പട്ടിക നോക്കുക.

==പരിഭാഷപ്പെടുത്തിക്കൊണ്ടിരിയ്ക്കുന്ന പാക്കേജുകളും പരിഭാഷകരും==
'''വിക്കിയില്‍ മാറ്റം വരുത്തുമ്പോള്‍ ശ്രദ്ധിക്കേണ്ട കാര്യങ്ങള്‍:'''

1. നിങ്ങള്‍ തര്‍ജ്ജമ ചെയ്യുന്നതിനായി [http://l10n.kde.org/stats/gui/trunk-kde4/team/ml/ കെഡിഇ l10n സ്റ്റേറ്റസ് പേജു്] -ല്‍ നിന്നും ഒരു ഫയല്‍ എടുക്കുന്നതിനുമുമ്പായി വിക്കി നോക്കുക.

2. എടുത്ത ഫയലിന്റെ പേരു് നിങ്ങളുടെ പേരിനോടൊപ്പം വിക്കിയില്‍ ചേര്‍ക്കുക.

3. തര്‍ജ്ജമ ചെയ്ത ഫയല്‍ റിവ്യൂ ചെയ്യുന്നതിനായി അയയ്ച്ചതിനു് ശേഷം, വിക്കിയില്‍ ആ ഫയല്‍ '''ബോള്‍ഡാക്കുക'''.

4. റിവ്യൂ ചെയ്ത ഫയല്‍ കമ്മിറ്റ് ചെയ്ത ശേഷം ആ വ്യക്തി (ഇവിടെ, പ്രവീണ്‍) അതു് ''ഇറ്റാലിക്സിലാക്കുക''.
5. [http://l10n.kde.org/stats/gui/trunk-kde4/team/ml/ കെഡിഇ l10n സ്റ്റേറ്റസ് പേജു്] പരിഷ്കരിച്ച ശേഷം, ഇറ്റാലിക്സിലുള്ള കമ്മിറ്റ് ചെയ്ത ഫയലുകളെ വിക്കിയില്‍ നിന്നും
പ്രവീണ്‍/അനി നീക്കം ചെയ്യുക.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2"
!style="background:#ffdead;" | PO File
!style="background:#ffdead;" | Translators
|- style="background:#efefef;"
|colspan="5" align="center" | '''extragear-multimedia'''
|-
|
* amarok.pot
| Jesse Francis
|- style="background:#efefef;"
|colspan="2" align="center" | '''kdebase'''
|-
|
* '''
''' desktop_kdebase'''
''' kcmkeys.po'''
kcmkwinscreen
| Sankaranarayanan
|-
|
* konqueror
* powerdevil
| Praveen Arimbrathodiyil
|-
|
* kio_sftp.po
| Hari Vishnu
|-
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* kcmkwinrules.po
| Pratheesh Prakash
|-
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* processui.po
| Anoop Panavalappil
|-
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* kcm_platform.pot
| Nadir K M
|-
|
* kdmconfig.po
* kfontinst.po
| Manu Madhav
|-
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* '''kcmdevinfo.pot'''
| Hrishikesh.K B
|-
|
* nepomuk.po
| Ershad K
|-
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* kcm_desktoppaths.po
| ArkArjun
|-
|- style="background:#efefef;"
|colspan="5" align="center" | '''kdeedu'''
|-
|
* kig.po
| Anoop Panavalappil
|-
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* kstars.po
| Manu Madhav, Shiju Alex
|-
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* kgeography.po
| Praveen Arimbrathodiyil
|-
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* kanagram.po
|Shyam K
|- style="background:#efefef;"
|colspan="5" align="center" | '''kdegames'''
|-
|
| Abhishek Oommen Jacob
|- style="background:#efefef;"
|- style="background:#efefef;"
|colspan="5" align="center" | '''koffice'''
|-
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* kspread.po
| Manu Madhav
|-
|}

* [[കെ ഡി ഇ 4.4 പതിപ്പില്‍ പ്രവര്‍ത്തിച്ചവരുടെ പേരുകള്‍]]
* [[കെ ഡി ഇ 4.2 പതിപ്പില്‍ പ്രവര്‍ത്തിച്ചവരുടെ പേരുകള്‍]]
* [[കെ ഡി ഇ 4.1 പതിപ്പില്‍ പ്രവര്‍ത്തിച്ചവരുടെ പേരുകള്‍]]