User:Chandankumar

Who are you?

• Name : Chandan Kumar
• University : West Bengal University of Technology
• College : Dr.B.C.Roy Engineering College, Fuljhore, Durgapur-713206 (West Bengal)
• Current Education : Computer Science and Engineering B.Tech (2009-13), Final Year Student.
• Background :

I have started my journey to open source from English to Hindi Translation under the guidance of Rajesh Ranjan (Language Maintainer, Redhat) from February, 2012. Right now, i am helping many open source communities through Hindi Localization by acting as a Hindi language maintainer of Videolan, Fedora HIndi l10n co-ordinator, Committer for l10n Hindi Gnome and active hindi translator of Mozilla community as well as for other projects.Apart from that, i am a active member and co-ordinator of DGPLUG(Durgapur Linux User Group) and a Mozilla Reps from durgapur. I am a python lover and in free time i teach students and love gardening.

• Contact Me:
  • Email-id : chandankumar.093047ATgmailDOTcom
  • GitHub username: Chandan47kumar
  • IRC handler: chandankumar

What is your programming experience?

• What platform do you use to code?

I use Fedora 18 Gnome Desktop for development work. I generally code in python. I am familiar with C .

• What editor do you prefer and why?

I prefer Vim for development work because i can do what ever i want without leaving the keyboard and it has all the features that a good editor have.

• How good can you use Malayalam and how good is your Malayalam reading and typing skills?

I donot know Malayalam. But i am familiar with Hindi and English in writing and speaking.I am also familiar with Magahi language.

• Tell us about something you have created.

I have proposed an idea "Screenshot Comparison Method to improve the Review process of l10n qa". I am authoring a linux Desktop app FBlite that will show feeds of all your friends from which you have subscribed in between previous login and current login time interval.

• What makes you excited about SMC? Have you worked before with SMC? If yes, when and on what?

"My language for/on My Computer" the slogan of the SMC community makes me excited. It is one of the first community who is totally devoted in making free software for the localization and its related issues which is helping users to make the computer to speak in your own language. I have not ever worked for SMC, but i have worked for Indlinux and Fuel Project.

• Have you ever used git or any other version control system?

I am familiar with git and mercurial. I use it during committing my translation files to gnome and Mozilla.

What is your project?

I am working on Automated Rendering Testing for indic fonts.

• What do you want to achieve?

My aim is to identify and implement an automated method to test the rendering.

• What excites you about this project? Why did you choose it?

I am a language translator and have entered in to the localization codebase to develop tools for localization. For a translator, it is necessary that what he uses the font that must be correct. To do this , there must be a software available that will tell them correctly the used id correct. So, i have taken this project and very excited to work on this.

• What qualifications do you have to implement your idea?

For implementing this project, knowledge of opentype specification and how rendering engine works and a good command of glyph and unicode encoding is necessary. I have the basic knowledge of opentype specification and fontforge tool to get the glyph info of a font currently. I am adding other necessary skills soon.

• What have other people done on this idea? Has it been implemented before?

UTRRS (Unicode Text Rendering Reference System) is implemented to do the same. This application acts as a baseline to solve this problem.

• How much time do you plan to invest in the project before, during, and after the Summer of Code?

As a normal day work, i will would like to devote 6 -7 hours per day.

• Please provide a schedule of how this time will be spent on sub-tasks
  • Current work status fro 3 days (21-04-2013-23-04-2013)
    • 21-04-2013

opentype specification: details will be made available to the blog.