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| '''GSOC 2013 proposal for Swathanthra Malalayalam Computing '''
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| ==Who are you ?==
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| I am Nithin P Saji pursuing dual degrees in Physics and Computer Science from
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| Bits Pilani,Pilani. Currently I am in my third year of study here.
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| I hail from Kollam, Kerala a small town at the southern tip of India,I have done my
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| pre university education here.I love reading fiction,non-fiction,manga,fan fictions,
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| tech blogs and also software docs.
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| You can mail me at nithin111[at]gmail[dot]com,you can look at some of the code I have written
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| at http://github.com/diadara . My irc handle is diadara
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| ==What is you programming experience ?==
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| I started out with c++ from school,mostly written file handling stuff and other
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| simple console apps and a few interesting stuff with graphics.h, lately
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| I have been playing around with opengl and plan to build something.I have written code
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| in a number of languages c,c++,c#,Java,python,ruby,,haskell(I tried out Xmonad),lua,php and | |
| consider myself fluent in python,ruby, c++ and Javascript.I have experience
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| in making web applications with traditional lamp stack from university
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| course on databases as well as asp.net web forms which I used for
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| making a entry/exit record keeper for my college's library that can
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| display peak times and also retrieve information for analysis.
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| == Things that I have built==
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| During my internship at VISL,SAIL,Bhadravathi,I made a intranet news website for
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| the organisation.I also made a google maps based website to display the public
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| land records of the company township.
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| I am currently doing an internship as part of an industry exchange programme at 24-7xs.com
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| where I am building a Jquery and angularjs based web client for a REST api. I have also built
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| some rails apps like the social food share app I made during a social hackathon conducted at
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| my college which is intended to be used for sharing home made food to people who can't cook.
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| Most of the things I have made are available at github.
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| I am a FOSS enthusiast and was a distro hopper before I settled on arch linux.
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| I am also a bit of a linux evangelist at my collage and successfully converted
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| a fair number of people.I use vim for most of my work because it is really fast in getting things done.
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| Unfortunately I haven't been introduced to SMC before GSOC considering that I speak Malayalam.
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| I have been quite amazed by the enthusiasm shown by the community members of SMC and I can identify
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| myself with the cause they are working for.
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| I have been using git for a year now to maintain my projects and I am fairly comfortable using it.
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| ==What is you project ?==
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| The original SIPA project was a monolithic app with a fair number of dependencies and
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| provide a large number of language processing tools.The project is currently
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| being rewritten so that the tools can be separated and used by anyone and a flask
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| based app which makes use of these modules to provide a web interface for these tools
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| as well as a JSONRPC interface for other applications to make use of these tools.I
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| I would be completing the porting of them modules and separating the templates from
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| silpa-flask.
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| Currently the templates used by these modules are contained in the main app,my job will be to package these templates into their respective python packages and modify
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| the flask based app to load these templates dynamically using jinja2 's package
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| loader functionality. This is done so that silpa can be installed with a select
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| few of the modules without the main app having all of the templates.This will make
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| writing templates for new modules easier as the python module and templates can be
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| made and packaged into one package without adding any other dependencies allowing
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| modules to run standalone as well as nicely plug into the main silpa app to add
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| functionality.
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| Once the repackaging of the already ported modules are completed,I will be in a
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| position to port rest of the modules into the new format.This will involve creating
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| new jinja templates for each of these modules and packaging them.I have experience
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| working with twitter bootstrap and Jquery ajax, and this can be done fairly quickly.
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| Some of the already ported modules make use of certain common tools such as detect
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| language which are currently packaged with each of them causing some level of
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| code duplication this will be separated and packaged into a separate reusable
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| packages.
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| Also repackaging of the modules and templates also gives as an opportunity to write
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| tests for all of the modules as well as the web interface.There are reported and
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| unreported bugs with some of the modules and all the bugs will be reported and
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| bugs that can be solved within the time frame will be solved.
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| ==Why me ?==
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| I am fluent in python and familiar with most of the source code in silpa-flask
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| repository as well as old silpa repository. I have been learning flask during
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| the last two weeks and I have built an app using templates loaded from a package.
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| I am familiar with the templating system used and I have added jquery.ime input
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| method to the flask based silpa app.I have also ported one of the old
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| modules(syllabizer) to a silpa-flask compatible standalone package.Thus I have a
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| very good idea about the job involved.I can also read and write in Malayalam and
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| Hindi thus I am in good position to test the apps also.I have also completed SaaS
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| course offered on edX by UC Berkeley with a certificate of accomplishment and thus
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| familiar with agile development pattern.
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| ==Contributions to SMC==
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| One of the proposed ideas was to add jquery.ime plugin to SILPA .I have added this
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| and my pull request has been accepted.I have also done some random code cleaning.
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| I have ported one the old modules to work with flask based silpa .It is functional as
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| a standalone package.The template for this package will be added once the structure
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| of the modules are finalised.
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| == Deliverability.==
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| Restructure silpa to use templates from packages.
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| Repackage already ported packages with templates
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| Port remaining packages from old silpa to work as standalone
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| packages and also make new templates to be added to these packages to be
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| used by silpa.
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| Write unit tests for each of the individual packages along with their restructuring
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| General Bug fixing of the packages.
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| Add new documentation/add from old documentation
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| ==Timeline==
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| I am quite familiar with the code base and the technologies involved so I will
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| use this time to get familiar with unit testing in python and browser based test suites like selenium,smoke etc. Also since my project involves a lot of python packaging,I will use this time to get familiar with peps recommendations on conventions to be followed while packaging.
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| ===week 1 and 2===
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| Restructure silpa and repackage one of the new packages with the template folder
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| and write unit tests and selenium based browser testing
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| ===week 3 and 4===
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| repackage all of the already ported packages and write tests for them.
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| ===week 5 and 6===
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| General Bug Fixing ,Generate documentation using sphinx and integrate it to the site
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| midterm evaluation
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| ===Week 7-11===
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| From now onwards work on one module at a time and make the new templates ,package
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| them and provide proper documentation.
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| Sphinx would be used to generate documentation for the whole system and added to
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| the main site.
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| ===Week 12-13===
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| Will be used as buffer and also general bug fixing.
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| ===Post Gsoc===
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| I would like to take care of the maintenance of the whole application suite.
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