<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Anjali Shally <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shally.hp5@gmail.com" target="_blank">shally.hp5@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Anjali Shally</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shally.hp5@gmail.com" target="_blank">shally.hp5@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:58 AM<br>Subject: GSOC 2015<br>To: <a href="mailto:subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org" target="_blank">subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org</a><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Hi</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span> All<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">,</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">    </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">    </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">    </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">    </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">I
 am Anjali, a 3rd year student of  B.Tech Computer Science at Manipal 
Institute of Technology,Manipal,Karnatake, India.I am participating  in </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">GSOC 2015 </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">.I
 am well versed in C/C++ and Java programming.I have experience 
working in Qt as well. I also have a good understanding of databases.I have worked on various projects which are as 
follows:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Application for a book shop :</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The
 project was developed using Java swings for creating the UI and MYSQL, 
as the database, in the back-end. Some of the functionalities/highlights
 of the application were management of purchase transactions, providing 
information about recent book launches to customers and management &
 streamlining of traffic in book store.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Web Application</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">:The
 project aimed at creating web application using Oracle ADF and involved
 incorporating databases using Oracle Express Edition and SQL 
Developer.The project was a web based student portal system.This project
 was a part of my summer internship last year.</span></p></li></ul><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">An android application as a part of my academic curriculum in college.</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">I would love to work on the project </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Asset Management</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> 
 during GSOC 2015 , I will really appreciate if anyone can provide me 
any pointers related to this project or suggest a concrete task or 
something that I could do before starting to write my proposal .</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> Hello Anjali,<br><br></div><div>I start by copying Tomaz's previous response to similar introduction:<br><br>---8<---<br><div>try to understand our codebase and see what needed datastructures will be needed,<br></div><div>compile the software and open a few dive files to see how everything works<br></div>try to fix a bug or improve something before summer of code, this will tell us that you can indeed program.<br>---8<---<br><br></div><div>We have a two patch rule to qualify, more information is available on our GSoC idealist page [1]. There is also a link to our bug tracker with some bugs marked as easy fix [2]. These are a good place to start familiarizing with the code. I am sure we have a couple of people on the mailing list who are really interested in this feature and are able to give some idea what our users want from the asset management.<br><br>[1] <a href="http://trac.subsurface-divelog.org/wiki/Subsurface_GSOC_2015_Idea_List">http://trac.subsurface-divelog.org/wiki/Subsurface_GSOC_2015_Idea_List</a><br>[2] <a href="http://trac.subsurface-divelog.org/report/13">http://trac.subsurface-divelog.org/report/13</a><br><br></div><div>HTH,<br></div><div>miika<br></div></div></div></div>