SoC/2007

Selected Participants

We have about 60 Indian students in GSoC this year; including 3 from my college. I sincerely hope that atleast 30 of these students will stick around to become permanent contributors to their respective projects.

A non-comprehensive list (may have missed out the NRIs): Name, Mentor, Project. (Quite a few Indian mentors out there too):

1. Jasleen Singh, Arockiasamy Mohanraj, Design and implementation a better document inspector2) Ravinder Reddy, Katherine Marsden, Convert Derby tests to JUnit and fix Derby bugs

1. Baishampayan Ghose, Michael Philip Sparks, Extending the web-server component in Kamaelia to make it useful as a general purpose web-server component

1. Anant Narayanan, Devon H. O'Dell, Alternative Implementations of 9P: PHP and JavaScript

1. Tara Gilliam, Michael Philip Sparks, Visual Editor for Creation & Composition of Shard Components

1. Arun Raghavan, Joe Shaw, A Xesam-based D-Bus interface for Beagle

1. Dawn Thomas, Rick Riolo , Urbance: An agent-based approach to Architectural Design

1. Nitin Gupta, Dr. Tarique Sani, AJAX Support in Coppermine with an API

1. Thejaswi Puthraya, Simon Blanchard, Implementing Check Constraints on Models

1. Neil Joshi, Eugene Lazutkin, Pseudo 3-D Charting

1. Amila Sampath, Theodore Serbinski, Designing a new core theme for Drupal

1. Prashant Deva, Philippe Ombredanne, New Eclipse update manager

1. Udayan Kumar, Martin Connor, Porting Etherboot drivers to gPXE

1. Akhil Kumar Meshram, Pierrick Brihaye, eXist eXtension to teXt Search

1. Debarshi Ray, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay, An offline package update/installation facility for Pirut.

1. Ria Das, Jeff Sheltren, Publication of all man and info pages for each release through a web interface

1. Vivek B, Yutaka Niibe, Designing an educational microprocessor and led display using the same (in verilog).

1. Attilio Rao, Roberson, Rewriting lockmgr(9)

1. Swati Goyal, Matthew John Toseland, Improving Search in FreeNet

1. Srivatsan, Florent Daignière, DOS resistant link level encryption using JFKi key management protocol

1. Uday, Jack Bates, Web based Image Manipulation

1. Ramnath R Iyer, Dirk Haun, Web services API for Geeklog

1. Raghavendra Narasimhan V, Christoph Egger, OpenGL support for GGI

1. Vikram Kumar V B, Christoph Egger, Improve XGGI by implementing some X extensions.

1. Srijak Rijal, Sam Vilain, Gittorrent Server and Peer

1. Sayamindu Dasgupta, Federico Mena-Quintero, Extending the lockdown framework in GNOME and making it even more deployment friendly

1. Imran Patel, Xan López Saborido, Integrating Epiphany Bookmarks and Browsing History For GNOME-wide Access

1. Rakesh Pandit, Nagarjuna Gadiraju, Graphical navigation/representation of knowledge base; and interfacing with other knowledge systems.

1. Chintan Agarwal, Derek Atkins, QIF Importer Rewrite

1. Krishna Kishore Annapureddy, François Revol, Implement a precache algorithm along with aging policy for the file system caches

1. Avi Mehta, Rastin Mehr, Implementation of mootools in Joomla! 1.5 framework

1. Shivasharan Rao, Jonathan Riddell, SQL Code Generation and Enhanced Entity Relationship Models for Umbrello

1. Piyush Verma, Andreas Pakulat, Python Support for KDevelop4

1. Anirudh Ramesh, Cornelius Schumacher, Bridge the gap between KitchenSync and OpenSync

1. Sharon Myrtle Paradesi, Robert Kaye, Using Collaborative Filtering to generate Relationships between artists for MusicBrainz

1. Nidhi Rawal, Sebastien Pouliot, Gendarme: The problem finder

1. Mayank Jain, David Jesús Horat Flotats, Moodle Voice

1. Udit Sajjanhar, Petr Skoda, Secure RSS Feeds

1. Srirang G Dooddihal, Dan Mosedale, Implementing cross-session download resume

1. Kunal Kumar D Jain, Dietrich Ayala, Places: Indexing Visited Pages

1. K.Harishankaran, Nagappan, Firefox automation & Tinderbox integration

1. Sumantra R. Kundu, William Studenmund, A Framework For Enforcing QoS Inside the NetBSD UVM

1. Deepank Gupta, Werner Almesberger, Ad hoc communication via Bluetooth

1. Sashikanth Raju S Damaraju, Paul Biondich, Clinical Data Visualization Tools

1. Rahul Murmuria, William Sommerfeld, Porting Racoon2 to OpenSolaris

46) Amit Vyas, DongInn Kim, Globus/Condor Package for OSCAR 47) Siddharth Angrish, Simon Lin, Learning a Context Free Grammar by reading Corpus in a given language 48) Swanand Janardan Deodhar, Shashank T. Date, Framework for ETL and Data mining operations in Ruby 49) Shobhit Jindal, Pavel Tankov, SSH Support in SIP Communicator using JCraft SSH2 Java Implementation 50) Hiran V, Hussain K.H, Unicode Standard Malayalam Font 51) Antony Francis Maliakal, Anivar A Aravind, Akshara OCR 52) Shyam K, Santhosh Thottingal, Basic Voice Recognition System for malayalam 53) Mobin M, Praveen A, MalluTux 54) Jinesh KJ, Suresh P, Comprehensive malayalam input system for GNU/ Linux 55) Sourav Pal, Jean-Paul Saman, RTSP Streaming Server in VLC 56) Nageswara Rao M, Abraham Moolenaar, Integrating vim editor with eclipse 57) Ishaan Dalal, Monty Montgomery, Sinusoidal coding for Ghost 58) Vandan Parikh, Ludovic Dubost, XWiki Offline 59) Nikhil N, Baiju Muthukadan, Run Zope 3 using Python 2.5 60) Gartheeban Ganeshapillai, Kaustubh Srikanth, Auto Completion of links

• Thanks to Anant Narayanan of ILUG-BOM for compiling this list

Timeline

(see [WWW] Google's FAQ)

March 5: Mentoring organizations can begin submitting applications to Google

March 12: Mentoring organization application deadline

March 13: Google program administrators review organization applications

March 14: List of accepted mentoring organizations published on code.google.com; student application period opens

March 24: Student application deadline

Interim Period: Mentoring organizations review and rank student proposals; where necessary, mentoring organizations may request further proposal detail from the student applicant

April 9: List of accepted student applications published on code.google.com

Interim Period: Students learn more about their project communities

May 28: Students begin coding for their GSoC projects; Google begins issuing initial student payments

Interim Period: Mentors give students a helping hand and guidance on their projects

July 9: Students upload code to code.google.com/hosting; mentors begin mid-term evaluations

July 16: Mid-term evaluation deadline; Google begins issuing mid-term student payments

August 20: Students upload code to code.google.com/hosting; mentors begin final evaluations; students begin final program evaluations

August 31: Final evaluation deadline; Google begins issuing student and mentoring organization payments

Mentoring Organisations

1. Swathanthra Malayalam Computing

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