[Systers-dev] GSoC 2010

[sruthi devi]

Hello,
      I am Sruthi Devi, fourth semester student of B.Tech Computer Science
and Engineering at Govt.Engineering College,Thrissur.I like to apply for
GSoC systers mailman project Fixing and implementing wishlists items and
bug-fixes for existing features.I am a member of systers-dev mailing list
and my application to join systers list is pending for approval.I tried to
build the system but got stuck at make installing mailman.I got support from
the mailing list and building python 2.5 settled that issue. I got stuck at
generating alias.db and got advice from list that I should necessarily shift
to ubuntu-8.04 LTS at present. I will be doing it today.
      Ofcourse, I have did many group projects at school and college but not
in programming.Something outside classrooms is we have won II in maths
project on Circles at District level Maths Exhibition during my 10th
standard. Working in group was better than alone because good suggestions
and co operation always increases the perfection of work.Deciding between
varied suggestions was the challenge.
      I have a coding experience of 4 years.Though I have used python,I
haven't did any projects in python yet. I love C coding.I have an experience
of working in open source projects like KStars which is coded in C++ and
Qt.My name is listed in Contributors list of KStars and have commit access
in kde. http://edu.kde.org/kstars/contributors.php .My interest in systers
mission is that I think it would be nice to work in a project exclusively
meant for encouraging women in computing.And these things bring me to the
project.
     My other commitments during GSoC timeline is there may be my S4 exams
in the month of July.I expect that working in the project will help me gain
knowledge in tackling problems in real programs in Python and handling code
bases.And it is a fun to work in free software projects.Shall I proceed with
the application? Thank you

Regards,
Sruthi Devi