User:Vidya
Email Address: vidya.vnv@gmail.com
Blog URL: http://www.quieterminal.wordpress.com
Freenode IRC Nick: wannaC
Your university and current education: Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Senior Year, B.E. in Information Technology
Why do you want to work with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing? Coming from a Malayali family but living far away(in Delhi) where you get less exposure to your culture, it is important for me to find ways in order to associate with it. SMC provides me a platform where I can enhance my skills as well as get acquainted with my native language. Also it gives me an opportunity to work in Open Source with an incentive to acquire more knowledge about Malayalam(my native language). I would like to get associated with an Indian organisation which collaborates with the government which is what SMC does.
Do you have any past involvement with the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing or another open source project as a contributor? No, this is my first attempt.
Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organisations? No
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 I will be having final year examinations during the month of May but I know how to prioritise my work and will give 100% to it.
Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing after the GSoC 2014 program, if yes, which area(s), you are interested in? Yes. Mainly in Transliteration module.
Why should we choose you over other applicants? I have the necessary programming skills and I am dedicated to the task to which I have committed. Also I believe in team work and want to work in a open source project. I am really excited to work on a widely used free software project.
PROJECT PROPOSAL
OVERVIEW
The need you believe it fulfils
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE: I am proficient in Python. I have worked with several APIs which extract huge amounts of data. These scripts are being used by the organisation(InfoAssembly) where I interned. Conversion into ISO Date format, Scraped 150 websites using Scrapy. I have worked with NodeJS and Javascript to build a Chrome Extension. Among databases I have experience in MongoDb and MySQL. I have experience in softwares such as Matlab and Octave. I used to program in C/C++ but lately I have adopted Python.
How you intend to implement your proposal
A rough timeline for your progress with phases
Any other details you feel we should consider
Tell us about something you have created I built a chrome extension to extract data out of website like hyperlinks, About us information, Products, Investor Relationships and other business related information. All this was stored in a database which can used to access the information at a later stage.
Have you communicated with a potential mentor? If so, who? Yes. I communicated with Santosh.
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