Re: Regarding GSOC 2011 Application

Hi Robin,

All those are worthwhile projects. Feel free to nominate the one that
most appeals to you and focus on it. Open source code is mostly about
going with your passion. While you will be paid for your work on GSoC
what we're mostly looking for are people who will be long term
contributors once the project is over. So choose a project that really
interests you and is something you'd want to work on even if you
weren't getting paid for it.

Cheers

Martin

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Robin Chandra <robinchandra19@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am planning to apply to GSOC this year. I am a fourth year Computer
> Science Engineering student at IIIT Hyderabad. Besides the course
> work, I've been doing research in Computer Vision for about two years
> now. I have a fair amount of programming experience in both C and C++,
> besides other languages, and I've also designed the UIs of several
> tools I wrote for use in my research. I've taught C programming as a
> Teaching Assistant as well in my college. I was drawn to your
> institution mainly because of Abiword's multi platform support. As a
> user, I dislike rebooting and switching between my Windows and Ubuntu
> OSs. I work on my Ubuntu, but when I want to use MSOffice or Photoshop
> I have to boot into my Windows, which is unnerving. I have used Open
> Office but I still can't let go of the look and feel of MSOffice.
>
> I went through the proposed project ideas and liked some of them. I
> was particularly interested in the Table improvements (I have suffered
> several times while preparing the grade sheets of students in courses
> I have TAed), Port AbiWord to gtk-3.0 (gnome 3 is here to stay, so we
> might as well prepare ourselves for it) and improving ODF support
> (I've had bad experiences with opening esoteric file formats on Word
> Processors myself). Kindly suggest as to how I should proceed with
> these. I understand that I'd have to select exactly one of these ideas
> eventually for my proposal so I'd like to hear from you and identify
> the idea that'd perhaps be most useful when implemented.
>
> Thanks,
> Siddhartha Chandra
> BTech 4th year, Computer Science Dual,
> IIIT Hyderabad, India.
>
Received on Sat Mar 26 00:51:27 2011