User:Nandaja/GSoC 2013 Automated Rendering Testing

Personal information

• Name: Nandaja Varma
• Email Address: <nandaja.varma AT gmail DOT com>
• Freenode IRC Nick: gem
• University and current education ː BTech Computer Science, Calicut University
• Blog URL: nandajavarma.wordpress.com

• Why do you want to work with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing?

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

• Do you have any past involvement with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing or another open source project as a contributor?

    Yes, I have recently started contributing to SMC's Gnome localization team. I make contributions to Debian community as a packager, mainly  packaging Ruby gems for Debian. I also got involved in digitalization works with Malayalam Wikigrandhashala recently. 

• Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations?

    No, I did not.

• Do you have other obligations between May and August? Please note that we expect the Summer of Code to be a full time, 40 hours a week commitment ?

    I have no other obligations whatsoever between the proposed months. I will be able to make this 40 hours a week commitment GSoC.

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

    Yes, Most definitely. I would like to continue my contributions with the localization works as translation is one of my area of            interests. I would also like to make major contributions to SMC's rendering works. 

• Why should we choose you over other applicants?

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