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===The need you believe it fulfills===
===The need you believe it fulfills===
<center>When someone asks, how can I become a fedora contributor? What do we say to him/her? Or becoming a fedora contributor. Where to start? </center>
<center>'''When someone asks, how can I become a fedora contributor? What do we say to him/her? Or becoming a fedora contributor. Where to start?''' </center>


He/she now faces as to what we can call our monster of ten heads “Our Wiki”. Our wiki have much information very useful, but buried under many links. Due to that, many new contributors sees the wiki of superficial way. New contributors have many questions, the communication on the wiki is unidirectional. Is almost impossible have a detailed index of the information there are many communities or websites in the world doing this in this moment
He/she now faces as to what we can call our monster of ten heads “Our Wiki”. Our wiki have much information very useful, but buried under many links. Due to that, many new contributors sees the wiki of superficial way. New contributors have many questions, the communication on the wiki is unidirectional. Is almost impossible have a detailed index of the information there are many communities or websites in the world doing this in this moment
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<b>Research Interests:</b>
<b>Research Interests:</b>
I have also had the opportunity to coauthor four research papers with my learned fellow students and faculty members.  
I have also had the opportunity to co-author four research papers with my learned fellow students and faculty members.  




My first research paper “A management scheme for Hierarchical mobile IPv6” was coauthored with Prof MN Doja, Head of the Department in Computer Engineering at my University. The paper was presented in international conference and accepted for publication at “IJSDGE”.  
My first research paper “A management scheme for Hierarchical mobile IPv6” was co-authored with Prof MN Doja, Head of the Department in Computer Engineering at my University. The paper was presented in international conference and accepted for publication at “IJSDGE”.  




My second paper titled “Effective Probabilistic model for website classification” was coauthored with fellow students and teachers from my university. The paper has been accepted in a national conference and would be subsequently published in journal, Lecture notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer after the conference. I extended my research on web page classifiers and sequential patterns to generate a better algorithm to classify web pages. The work was conducted as a part of my minor project and the results were quite encouraging. We wrote a research paper publishing those results, the paper is pending review in one of the conferences.  
My second paper titled “Effective Probabilistic model for website classification” was co-authored with fellow students and teachers from my university. The paper has been accepted in a national conference and would be subsequently published in journal, Lecture notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer after the conference. I extended my research on web page classifiers and sequential patterns to generate a better algorithm to classify web pages. The work was conducted as a part of my minor project and the results were quite encouraging. We wrote a research paper publishing those results, the paper is pending review in one of the conferences.  
Apart from my interest in Data Mining and knowledge discovery. I also worked along one of the faculty members on Security and Cryptography during my summer break. The work was subsequently compiled with help of one of the faculty members and was submitted to international conference and is currently under peer review. The Title for the publication was “A New Chaotic Substitution Box Design for Block Ciphers”, the results obtained in this work was quite encouraging and it was well appreciated by senior members of the Department.  
Apart from my interest in Data Mining and knowledge discovery. I also worked along one of the faculty members on Security and Cryptography during my summer break. The work was subsequently compiled with help of one of the faculty members and was submitted to international conference and is currently under peer review. The Title for the publication was “A New Chaotic Substitution Box Design for Block Ciphers”, the results obtained in this work was quite encouraging and it was well appreciated by senior members of the Department.  


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<b>Professional experience (My Internships): </b>
<b>Professional experience (My Internships): </b>
I, during my first year at the university interned with CMC, a subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services. Here, I was first introduced to professional work environment and industry standards. Most of the work here was in PHP and Web application development. During my second year, I did my internship with TCIL (Telecom consultants of India Limited) during this, I worked closely with data-center team at TCIL’s Data center in New Delhi. The team was responsible maintaining and monitoring the Pan-e-Africa Network, this facility was used by Government of India to enable people from poor countries in Africa to get online medical consulting and professional courses. During my third undergraduate year, I was engaged as an intern with National informatics center (NIC) i.e. Government of India web-services organization. Here I worked with a senior scientist responsible for online office project a suite similar to Google Docs but indigenously built. I was given task of designing the backend for an upcoming module i.e. Discussion forum. I designed and partially implemented the module, this module was quite on the similar lines with the Facebook. Scientist who was guiding me was really impressed with my skills and I was offered a Job on successful completion of the project.
I, during my first year at the university interned with CMC, a subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services. Here, I was first introduced to professional work environment and industry standards. Most of the work here was in PHP and Web application development. During my second year, I did my internship with TCIL (Telecom consultants of India Limited) during this, I worked closely with data-center team at TCIL’s Data centre in New Delhi. The team was responsible maintaining and monitoring the Pan-e-Africa Network, this facility was used by Government of India to enable people from poor countries in Africa to get online medical consulting and professional courses. During my third undergraduate year, I was engaged as an intern with National informatics center (NIC) i.e. Government of India web-services organization. Here I worked with a senior scientist responsible for online office project a suite similar to Google Docs but indigenously built. I was given task of designing the backend for an upcoming module i.e. Discussion forum. I designed and partially implemented the module, this module was quite on the similar lines with the Facebook. Scientist who was guiding me was really impressed with my skills and I was offered a Job on successful completion of the project.




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===A rough timeline for your progress===
===A rough timeline for your progress===
'''I will be following the following timeline for the project.'''
'''I will be following the following timeline for the project.'''
<ul>
<li>Week 1 :  May 19, 2014  --  May 25, 2014
Discussion about the Fedora College database models and implementation of the database models. </li>
<li>Week 2 :  May 26, 2014  --  June 1, 2014
Develop an authorization module for Fedora College.</li>
<li>Week 3 :  June 2, 2014  --  June 8, 2014
API Development for the Database abstraction queries and to Manage Video (Upload, delete and revisions).</li>
<li>Week 4 :  June 9, 2014  --  June 15, 2014
API Development for the functionality to Manage Images (Upload, delete and revisions).</li>
<li>Week 5 :  June 16, 2014  --  June 22, 2014
API Development for the User Profile functionality.</li>


<li>Midterm Evaluation</li>
{|class="wikitable"
!Week
<li>Week 6 :  June 23, 2014  -- June 29, 2014
!Task
API Development to Manage comments.</li>
|-
<li>Week 7 June 30, 2014  --  July 6, 2014
|Week 1 May 19, 2014  --  May 25, 2014
Work on the Backend module and the Administration interface.</li>
|Discussion about the Fedora College database models and implementation of the database models.  
<li>Week 8 July 7, 2014  --  July 13, 2014
 
Complete the work for the Backend module and Perform testing.</li>
|-
<li>Week 9 July 14, 2014  --  July 20, 2014
|Week 2 May 26, 2014  --  June 1, 2014
Work on the Frontend module.</li>
|Develop an authorization module for Fedora College.
<li>Week 10 :  July 21, 2014  - July 27, 2014
|-
Work on the Frontend module.</li>
|Week 3 June 2, 2014  --  June 8, 2014
<li>Week 11 July 28, 2014  --  August 3, 2014
|API Development for the Database abstraction queries and to Manage Video (Upload, delete and revisions).
Work on the Frontend module.</li>
|-
<li>Week 12 August 4, 2014  --  August 10, 2014
|Week 4 June 9, 2014  --  June 15, 2014
Final work on the Frontend Module and Documentation about the work done for the community and Fedora users about the functionality and working of the Fedora college.</li>
|API Development for the functionality to Manage Images (Upload, delete and revisions).
|-
|Week 5 June 16, 2014  --  June 22, 2014
|API Development for the User Profile functionality.


<li>Week 13 :  August 11, 2014  --  August 18, 2014
|-
Final week to scrub the Frontend and Backend code, write tests, perform and improve documentation.</li>
|'''Midterm Evaluation'''
|'''Midterm Evaluation'''
|-
|Week 6 :  June 23, 2014  --  June 29, 2014
|API Development to Manage comments.
|-
|Week 7 :  June 30, 2014  --  July 6, 2014
|Work on the Backend module and the Administration interface.
|-
|Week 8 :  July 7, 2014  --  July 13, 2014
|Complete the work for the Backend module and Perform testing.
|-
|Week 9 :  July 14, 2014  --  July 20, 2014
|Work on the Frontend module.
|-
|Week 10 :  July 21, 2014  -  July 27, 2014
|Work on the Frontend module.
|-
|Week 11 :  July 28, 2014  --  August 3, 2014
|Work on the Frontend module.
|-
|Week 12 :  August 4, 2014  --  August 10, 2014
|Final work on the Frontend Module and Documentation about the work done for the community and Fedora users about the functionality and working of the Fedora college.


<li>Final Evaluation</li>
|-
<ul>
|Week 13 :  August 11, 2014  --  August 18, 2014
|Final week to scrub the Frontend and Backend code, write tests, perform and improve documentation.


|-
|'''Final Evaluation'''
|'''Final Evaluation'''
|}
===Any other details you feel we should consider===
===Any other details you feel we should consider===



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Fedora College

Project description

I would be devoting my summers to the google summer of code, under the mentorship of fedora. I would be working on this project “Fedora College”. This project works to create a virtual classroom for new fedora contributors. Acts as a platform for new contributors to engage with the community and learn how they can contribute best in the community. Mostly this service will be used to run online courses on contributing at various levels be it documentation, bug-fixing or packaging. The project would certainly increase the activeness in the community and certainly make it easy for newer members to craft their way around the fedora community. The use of virtual classroom environment for training new contributors to the community using know educational resources by a combination of written, images and video content.

The need you believe it fulfills

When someone asks, how can I become a fedora contributor? What do we say to him/her? Or becoming a fedora contributor. Where to start?

He/she now faces as to what we can call our monster of ten heads “Our Wiki”. Our wiki have much information very useful, but buried under many links. Due to that, many new contributors sees the wiki of superficial way. New contributors have many questions, the communication on the wiki is unidirectional. Is almost impossible have a detailed index of the information there are many communities or websites in the world doing this in this moment

  • showmedo.com
  • railscasts.com
  • perlcast.com (only podcasts)
  • podfeed.net
  • Also, get in to the different groups of Fedora require always the intervention of a qualified sponsor in the area, for accept the contributor in the groups based on their last contributions in the FOSS world. Many times, this contributors wants contribute but not have any contributions and needs learn about the work that does in the fedora groups and some experience. Due to it, this classrooms can be the better choice for training of the new Fedora contributors

    Any relevant experience you have

    I am Hammad Haleem, a senior year undergraduate student from India. I am currently studying computer engineering at Jamia Millia University, New Delhi India, one of the premier institutes in India. I am fluent with Python, PHP, C/C++, Java, and HTML along with English. It had been quite a lots of time since I am coding. I have quite experience working with web-technologies and database systems. After the completion of my Undergraduate studies I will be moving to Hong Kong university of Science for Masters in Computer engineering which is quite an exceptional university for further studies. Currently, I am working with the local community and building this event, BootConf.in. In its third edition it’s the annual FOSS conference at my university. It happened that, previous one we had was actually called fedora Un-conference. Aimed at educating people about the free and open-source software available and contributing to open-source. The event is list here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CONF@JMILUG

    Research Interests: I have also had the opportunity to co-author four research papers with my learned fellow students and faculty members.


    My first research paper “A management scheme for Hierarchical mobile IPv6” was co-authored with Prof MN Doja, Head of the Department in Computer Engineering at my University. The paper was presented in international conference and accepted for publication at “IJSDGE”.


    My second paper titled “Effective Probabilistic model for website classification” was co-authored with fellow students and teachers from my university. The paper has been accepted in a national conference and would be subsequently published in journal, Lecture notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer after the conference. I extended my research on web page classifiers and sequential patterns to generate a better algorithm to classify web pages. The work was conducted as a part of my minor project and the results were quite encouraging. We wrote a research paper publishing those results, the paper is pending review in one of the conferences. Apart from my interest in Data Mining and knowledge discovery. I also worked along one of the faculty members on Security and Cryptography during my summer break. The work was subsequently compiled with help of one of the faculty members and was submitted to international conference and is currently under peer review. The Title for the publication was “A New Chaotic Substitution Box Design for Block Ciphers”, the results obtained in this work was quite encouraging and it was well appreciated by senior members of the Department.


    Apart from my theoretical knowledge I have also been constantly developing my practical knowledge. I can safely say that I have spent the time and effort towards learning in this field to the best of my abilities and I still long to learn more, as a wise man once said “Learning is a never ending process’. I strongly believe, that the more I learn, the better will I be able to perform in my field

    Professional experience (My Internships): I, during my first year at the university interned with CMC, a subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services. Here, I was first introduced to professional work environment and industry standards. Most of the work here was in PHP and Web application development. During my second year, I did my internship with TCIL (Telecom consultants of India Limited) during this, I worked closely with data-center team at TCIL’s Data centre in New Delhi. The team was responsible maintaining and monitoring the Pan-e-Africa Network, this facility was used by Government of India to enable people from poor countries in Africa to get online medical consulting and professional courses. During my third undergraduate year, I was engaged as an intern with National informatics center (NIC) i.e. Government of India web-services organization. Here I worked with a senior scientist responsible for online office project a suite similar to Google Docs but indigenously built. I was given task of designing the backend for an upcoming module i.e. Discussion forum. I designed and partially implemented the module, this module was quite on the similar lines with the Facebook. Scientist who was guiding me was really impressed with my skills and I was offered a Job on successful completion of the project.


    Leadership Qualities and contribution to the Open Source During the course of my undergraduate studies I have also been engaged with various student bodies. I joined Computer Society of India, JMI student chapter during my first year of undergraduate study, Meant for individuals interested in Computers and Computer Science functions, not only to provide opportunities to students of Computer and Electronics engineering, but also to spread awareness about the latest technologies to other disciplines.


    I have been part of various clubs in the university like the Linux User group and the Google developer group. I was one of the Founding member of Google Developers group at my university. The main objective of being a part of these group is to promote technical skills among students. We have been delivering various lectures, Workshops and organizing competitions for propagation of various technical skills among the students. The focus on adaptation and promotion for good of various open-source technologies among students have been main focus for these groups. I myself was engaged in delivering lectures on various topics like HTML, Python, Apache Server and Linux. These groups work closely with many different open-source foundations like Mozilla-Foundation, Fedora, OpenSuse-foundation and Openstack foundation to introduce students with cutting edge technologies in the industry.


    How you intend to implement your proposal

    A rough timeline for your progress

    I will be following the following timeline for the project.

    Week Task
    Week 1 : May 19, 2014 -- May 25, 2014 Discussion about the Fedora College database models and implementation of the database models.
    Week 2 : May 26, 2014 -- June 1, 2014 Develop an authorization module for Fedora College.
    Week 3 : June 2, 2014 -- June 8, 2014 API Development for the Database abstraction queries and to Manage Video (Upload, delete and revisions).
    Week 4 : June 9, 2014 -- June 15, 2014 API Development for the functionality to Manage Images (Upload, delete and revisions).
    Week 5 : June 16, 2014 -- June 22, 2014 API Development for the User Profile functionality.
    Midterm Evaluation Midterm Evaluation
    Week 6 : June 23, 2014 -- June 29, 2014 API Development to Manage comments.
    Week 7 : June 30, 2014 -- July 6, 2014 Work on the Backend module and the Administration interface.
    Week 8 : July 7, 2014 -- July 13, 2014 Complete the work for the Backend module and Perform testing.
    Week 9 : July 14, 2014 -- July 20, 2014 Work on the Frontend module.
    Week 10 : July 21, 2014 - July 27, 2014 Work on the Frontend module.
    Week 11 : July 28, 2014 -- August 3, 2014 Work on the Frontend module.
    Week 12 : August 4, 2014 -- August 10, 2014 Final work on the Frontend Module and Documentation about the work done for the community and Fedora users about the functionality and working of the Fedora college.
    Week 13 : August 11, 2014 -- August 18, 2014 Final week to scrub the Frontend and Backend code, write tests, perform and improve documentation.
    Final Evaluation Final Evaluation

    Any other details you feel we should consider

    For the past few weeks, I have been constantly in touch with the project mentors Eduardo Echeverria and Yohan Graterol.

    In the last few months , we had many successful talks. We talked about possible structure of Models, gui and api. I have also pushed some code to the github repository of the project.

    Have you communicated with a potential mentor? If so, who?