Google Summer of Code 2008 – Complete! fEeL dA l0V3!

Sep 22nd

Posted by Ajay Kumar in GSoC 2008

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Google Summer of Code™ 2008 [GSoC 2008] concluded on September 2, 2008 and I have successfully completed the program :-) This post goes to thank everyone[1] who have, in some way or the other helped me during the project time line. This year’s summer of code student’s success rate is 83%.

GSoC 2008 India MAP

GSoC 2008 India MAP

1] A BIG “Thank You” to :

  • Sahana – my GSoC organisation for selecting my project idea and giving me a chance to join in & contribute to the development.
  • Fran Boon – My Mentor for the GSoC project :-) [he rOcks!] for all the guidance and encouragement.
  • Friends I made @ ##gsoc-india & #gsoc for the fun we had, the codes we discussed, the phone calls, the meetups etc etc! It was all motivating and pHun being with you all.
  • My school mates, whom i got back to since I recovered from the “coma” of 4 years :P , who kept encouraging and helped getting back into the groove. Vivek, Akash, Pia.
  • Few special friends who stayed along, kept pushing! [you know who you are don't you ;-) ] OK. Kaps, Shellz, Rakesh!
  • my room mates Nishant, Amit, Deepak, Chanpreet for being there!
  • My parents for being there. And letting me cOde! :P in the oddly hours. My time table became opposite, sleep in the day and wake up in the night. Not exactly day & night, I used to code till 6 am, go for a jogging/running to further tire myself. Take a shower, have breakfast and off to sleep! To wake up at around 3-4 pm. Weird no ?
  • School friends @ Bangalore with whom I stayed for a month and other friends from Wipro I met there. I had fun! :-) Navin, Rahul, Ashish, Tariq.
  • to Google for paying me! and now certifying me :-) and promoting “Open Source”. And the t-shirt of course, the most important part! :-)
  • to Leslie Hawthorn, Program Manager, GSoC and the Open Source Programs Office team for handling the program of such a nature, with so little resources.
  • again to Leslie Hawthorn, for being a mentor taking care of all the students! [I tell you her real name is Trinity, just that she only has 2 hands, but does equal multi-tasking as Trinity. ;-) ]
  • other hidden forces and people who worked towards making all this possible. :-) Google Accounts dept, FedEx :P especially!
Me on the Map!

Me on the Map!

You may also want to check out the traditional map of Google Summer of Code 2008, which displays the connections between all of the mentors and students worldwide (KML – 1.4 MB, viewable with Google Earth or Google Maps.

No wonder this is a big post, if your interested in reading about my complete experience you can read on.

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RTFM ? Nah “Go look at my employers website”

Jun 10th

Posted by Ajay Kumar in FOSS

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RTFM == ? Well if you dont know about it already.. Prolly you *should* not know about it :D

But for those who do, getting shot by questions that makes us tempt to answer “RTFM” or “JFGIT”!!

Today while talking to Barry Carlyon, a programmer friend on the GSoC channel, after an hour of discussion or less than that, he made a statement in the end,

” You can use our employers website to find the information you need. lol”

And I replied “Where did it come from?” as in, what made him say that…

“Our Employer is Google“

yAy!!! :D

Yea right, even though it is a part time its a full time employment It’s a bit complicated though, we are currently employed by Google officially :D for the whole of Summer 2008. [Thanks r0bby for the correction, i figured we are full time on it for the Summer]

So guys, you might well want to change that statement… from JFGIT to

“Go look at my employers website for the information you need” ;-)

/me should now get back to code wars

PS: If you couldn’t figure out the keywords in this blog post, you might well want to look for that information on my employers website ;-)

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