Participate in X.Org Endless Vacation of Code

[Lakmal padmakumara]

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 .

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 .

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 .

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 .

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
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