[Mesa-dev] Participate in X.Org Endless Vacation of Code

Thu Apr 26 15:46:45 PDT 2012

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

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Lakmal padmakumara <rclakmal at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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 .
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Lakmal,
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Lakmal padmakumara <rclakmal at gmail.com>
>> 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 .
>>
>> You might also want to take a look at this page:
>> http://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas
>> 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
>>
>
> Best Regards
> Lakmal
>

Best Regards
Lakmal
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