Participate in X.Org Endless Vacation of Code

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Lakmal padmakumara <rclakmal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex ,Matt & Everyone ,
>
> Thanks for the ideas list Alex. I did encounter this link previously when I
> was going through the mail archives .
>
> I'm not sure whether all these projects are available or not .But after
> having an initial look I'm pretty much interested in the two projects
> mentioned here .
>
> First one is the project regarding adding an OpenCL test framework for
> piglit .Piglit seems to be implemented in python .So I would be very much
> interested in working with it .

The only problem with this one is that the currently available open
source OpenCL implementations are pretty limited in their
capabilities.  Still getting the infrastructure in place for an OpenCL
piglit suite would be a great help and might help move the start of
the art forward.  I'd suggest studying the existing piglit code and
sending your proposal or questions to mesa-dev at lists.freedesktop.org.
My colleague Tom would probably be willing to mentor this.

>
> And as another option I'm interested in the project focusing adding more
> input support for XCB .I dont have much background knowledge needed for this
> project .But when I read about it sounded really interesting and also got
> the feeling I would enjoy this type of a project .

I'm not too familiar with the current state of XCB and input.  I'd
suggest emailing your proposal or questions to
xorg-devel at lists.freedesktop.org.

>
> You might have some comments on my interested ideas .If you think they are
> feasible Please guide me on how should I proceed further with each one . One
> thing I experienced in the past was when you try to contribute to a open
> source project most difficult part is setting up the required
> environment/tools for the development . I would kindly request some guidance
> and help on these steps focusing on above projects .

I'd suggest emailing the lists mentioned above and explain what you
are thinking about doing and asking for input from developers who are
more knowledgeable about the areas in question (how much work is
involved, what parts of the code to look at, ideas for how it should
done, how much is a feasible to get done over the project period,
etc.).  They should be able to help guide you in the right direction.
That is generally how the GSOC and EVOC proposals have been handled in
the past.

>
> As I mentioned in my first email message , I will be having my exams until
> the end of third week of May .I believe it will be great if I can use these
> 3 weeks to get to know the community and move with one of my selected idea
> until I can come up with a good proposal with the feedback of the developers
> . So I would be able to start my developing phase right after I'm done with
> my exams .

Once you gotten some feedback on your proposals, send them to us and
we'll help you fine tune it.

Alex


>
>
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Lakmal,
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Lakmal padmakumara <rclakmal at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Yes Matt , as you have mentioned I am more interested in non-graphic
>> > backend
>> > stuff . During my last internship I mainly worked with Python and Ruby
>> > where
>> > I used these scripts to access several remote servers ,download data
>> > ,create
>> > databases and finally to analyze and present these data. I found python
>> > to
>> > be a very interesting programming language although I hadn't work with
>> > it
>> > before my internship .
>> >
>> > I developed an extension to OpenOffice which can be used to do basic
>> > image
>> > manipulation using Java .Most of the features of this extension were
>> > depending on pixel manipulation ( Etc Rotation Image , Scale ) where I
>> > could
>> > use my solid mathematics background .
>> >
>> > As one of the project in the university I'm working in developing a
>> > Distributed System Management Framework using Apache Zookeeper and
>> > Apache
>> > Thrift with 3 other team members. Language of implementation is Java and
>> > this involves working with some major topics in distributed computing
>> > like
>> > election algorithms ,resource allocation algorithms .
>> >
>> > In the recent past , I worked a little bit with GNOME shotwell project
>> > as I
>> > was very excited with its lightweight appearance and good set of
>> > features
>> > which made me to hack their code a little bit . So I could make myself
>> > familiar with their main implementation language Vala (which I believe
>> > very
>> > similar to C#) .
>> >
>> > Although I haven't worked with a major project in "C" that is one other
>> > language I'm comfortable at, as I used it and still using it in our
>> > university assignments.
>> >
>> > So as the bottom line at the moment I'm very much familiar with
>> > languages
>> > like Python , Java,  C ,C++  and Vala and also with PHP as I have
>> > written
>> > some web services during my internship . I have a solid knowledge in
>> > database query languages like MySQL and SqLite .But if the task is
>> > interesting I will find it extremely exciting to learn new things
>> > related to
>> > it .
>> >
>> >>
>> >> For instance, we have a python script that generates C bindings.
>> >
>> >
>> > This sounds interesting and looks like it matches to my current skill
>> > set .
>> > Let me know more about it and similar sub projects .
>>
>> You might also want to take a look at this page:
>> http://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas
>> Find something that interests you and send us a preliminary proposal.
>> You might want to run your ideas past the xorg mailing lists for
>> additional input from other developers familiar with Xorg.  That may
>> help you narrow down what you want to focus on.  Feel free to ask lots
>> of questions about possible ideas as the goal is for this to be
>> something interesting to you that you will learn something from and be
>> able to complete successfully over the summer.
>>
>> Alex
>
>
> Best Regards
> Lakmal