User:Oswalpalash

A: An introduction

• Please describe yourself in three sentences, one of them regarding your current studies.

I'm a 2nd year Computer Engineering student from SVNIT, India. I'm a web developer and a freelance penetration tester. I've been working with django for over 18 months now and I'm quite comfortable using it.

• • Which languages do you speak?

I speak English and Hindi primarily.

• • What's your overall background?

I'm having a computer engineering background and a diploma degree in 2-D animation.

• Why do you want to participate in the Google Summer of Code? What do you hope to gain by doing so?

By participating in Google Summer of Code, I wish to gain more experience in Django programming and get to know more people in the Open Source Community. In India the amount of developers are limited, which can be overcome by a global platform.

• • Please also describe your previous experience with the GSoC, if any.

This is the first time I'm applying to GSoC. I know many good programmers who have mentored in GSoC previously but this year I want to be a part of this fantastic opportunity.

• Why are you choosing Octave?

Octave has an Agora project which has Django platform. Since I'm quite interested and familiar to Django; I'm more interested to work with Agora during the summer and finish the project !

C: Contact

• Please state the (unique and identical where possible) nick you use on IRC and any other communication channel related to Octave.

Palash

• Which time zone do you live in? Will that change over GSoC duration?

GMT +5:30. This timezone shall remain the same over GSoC duration.

• Please state the timeframe (in UTC+0) when you feel most comfortable working during GSoC. Where are your time buffers?

I prefer UTC 11:30 A.M to 6:00 P.M UTC for coding

E: Coding experience

This part is one of the more important ones in your application. You are allowed to be as verbose as you want, as long as you stay on topic ;-)

• Please describe your experience with C++, Octave or Matlab m-scripts, OpenGL and Qt.

I've worked with C++ for 2 years but not recently. I've used Matlab m-scripts but not very widely as it helped me in specific purposes.

• Please describe your experience with other programming languages.

I have been working with Python(Django) for past 18 months and I also have done a bit of work in CI(php).

• Please describe your experience with being in a development team.

Yes, I have been a part of open source projects. I'm making some of my own projects as open source. I'm a member of Google Developer Group NIT Surat and we work collectively in Open Source Programming.

• Please describe the biggest project you have written code for and what you learned by doing so. Also describe your role in that project over time.

There are many large projects I have done before. The biggest one for me was an open source crawler for my internship two years from now. It was based on XML and python. I was the sole developer of the tool. It had to scrape data of websites and parse them into meaningful tables. It took me about 2 months to finish it. Recently I developed www.svnit-sparsh.org as a css moderator.

• Please state the commits and patches you already contributed to Octave.

I've started to work for Agora(octave) and Will soon be contributing to it :)