<div class="gmail_extra">Hey Devs , I'm Lakmal ,a Computer Science & Engineering student from University of Moratuwa ,Sri Lanka . Next few months going to be my term vacation and I was searching for opportunities where I could get the experience of a real world project while improving my technical skills .X.org Endless Vacation of code seemed to match my targets perfectly . I had a conversation with Matt Dew and Alex Deucher about my past projects,interests ,availability .You can refer to that conversation in the quoted parts below.When I express my interest in working with the project on adding an OpenCL test framework for piglit which was suggested in the summer ideas list, Alex asked me to direct my request to this mailing list for more help . I see piglit is written in python. I posses a good knowledge in Python and very much interested in working with the language.That was one of the reason I preferred this project .I would be grateful if anyone of you can provide some more details on how should I proceed further , whether this project would be suitable for a summer project (Of course it is suggested in the summer ideas list :-) .But would like to get a comment on that as well ) and any other technologies I should be familiar with to work with the project . I have my semester exams going on until the end of 3rd week of May . So I am hoping to utilize these weeks to make my self familiar with the community and to build up a good proposal.So any help would be greatly appreciated . Thanks in advance <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Lakmal padmakumara <<a href="mailto:rclakmal@gmail.com" target="_blank">rclakmal@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra">Hi Alex ,Matt & Everyone , Thanks for the ideas list Alex. I did encounter this link previously when I was going through the mail archives . I'm not sure whether all these projects are available or not .But after having an initial look I'm pretty much interested in the two projects mentioned here . First one is the project regarding adding an OpenCL test framework for piglit .Piglit seems to be implemented in python .So I would be very much interested in working with it . And as another option I'm interested in the project focusing adding more input support for XCB .I dont have much background knowledge needed for this project .But when I read about it sounded really interesting and also got the feeling I would enjoy this type of a project . You might have some comments on my interested ideas .If you think they are feasible Please guide me on how should I proceed further with each one . One thing I experienced in the past was when you try to contribute to a open source project most difficult part is setting up the required environment/tools for the development . I would kindly request some guidance and help on these steps focusing on above projects . As I mentioned in my first email message , I will be having my exams until the end of third week of May .I believe it will be great if I can use these 3 weeks to get to know the community and move with one of my selected idea until I can come up with a good proposal with the feedback of the developers . So I would be able to start my developing phase right after I'm done with my exams .<div> <div class="h5"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Alex Deucher <<a href="mailto:alexdeucher@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexdeucher@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Lakmal, <div><div> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Lakmal padmakumara <<a href="mailto:rclakmal@gmail.com" target="_blank">rclakmal@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > Yes Matt , as you have mentioned I am more interested in non-graphic backend > stuff . During my last internship I mainly worked with Python and Ruby where > I used these scripts to access several remote servers ,download data ,create > databases and finally to analyze and present these data. I found python to > be a very interesting programming language although I hadn't work with it > before my internship . > > I developed an extension to OpenOffice which can be used to do basic image > manipulation using Java .Most of the features of this extension were > depending on pixel manipulation ( Etc Rotation Image , Scale ) where I could > use my solid mathematics background . > > As one of the project in the university I'm working in developing a > Distributed System Management Framework using Apache Zookeeper and Apache > Thrift with 3 other team members. Language of implementation is Java and > this involves working with some major topics in distributed computing like > election algorithms ,resource allocation algorithms . > > In the recent past , I worked a little bit with GNOME shotwell project as I > was very excited with its lightweight appearance and good set of features > which made me to hack their code a little bit . So I could make myself > familiar with their main implementation language Vala (which I believe very > similar to C#) . > > Although I haven't worked with a major project in "C" that is one other > language I'm comfortable at, as I used it and still using it in our > university assignments. > > So as the bottom line at the moment I'm very much familiar with languages > like Python , Java, C ,C++ and Vala and also with PHP as I have written > some web services during my internship . I have a solid knowledge in > database query languages like MySQL and SqLite .But if the task is > interesting I will find it extremely exciting to learn new things related to > it . > >> >> For instance, we have a python script that generates C bindings. > > > This sounds interesting and looks like it matches to my current skill set . > Let me know more about it and similar sub projects . </div></div>You might also want to take a look at this page: <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas" target="_blank">http://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas</a> Find something that interests you and send us a preliminary proposal. You might want to run your ideas past the xorg mailing lists for additional input from other developers familiar with Xorg. That may help you narrow down what you want to focus on. Feel free to ask lots of questions about possible ideas as the goal is for this to be something interesting to you that you will learn something from and be able to complete successfully over the summer. Alex </blockquote><div> </div></div></div></div>Best Regards Lakmal </div> </blockquote></div> Best Regards Lakmal </div>