[Gsoc] Re: introductions, please

[nikhil n]

   Hi all,

I also have the same opinion as that of Ulrich in the matter of
> "making-noise"
>
   in the community.But even if such noises lead to mistakes we can learn
from
   that and  better ourselves.Still  initially I will prefer to listen until
I reach the
   threshold of creating noise.Let me introduce myself and my project
briefly.

I am a  third year computer science & engineering student  from a beautiful
>
   place Kerala in India. For years I have been working for propagating free
and
   open sourse software mainly through the Linux/Free software users group
   Thrissur (my  native place).

   I was really excited when my project was selected for SoC . It will be a
great
   experience for a student to do such a project and also I will be working
in two
   of my favorite languages C and Python. Another great thing is that my
mentor  Baiju

> Muthukadan is an Indian from my own state.I am really  glad to have him as
> my mentor.
>
> My project is to run Zope3 using python2.5. I will be initially dealing
> with the

   changes in the C API. Now I am trying to  port the ZODB (Zope Object

> Database) module  to python2.5. Its importance is that it can be used by
>
non-Zope stand-alone Python applications also. For this I have created
> a branch in svn.zope.org repository. I am also 'getting used' to the
> community
>
and project environment as said in Martijns mail.
>
>
> With Regards,
> Nikhil
>
>

On 5/10/07, Uli Fouquet <uli at gnufix.de> wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> On Wednesday, 09.05.2007, 00:04 +0200 Martijn Faassen wrote:
>
> > I hope I'm reaching our summer of code students this way.
>
> You hit, at least partly ;-)
>
> > Students, if
> > you haven't already, please subscribe to the gsoc at zope.org mailing
> > list so we can have discussions about the Google Summer of Code as
> > relating to Zope here.
>
> I already did, and yes, I think this list would be a fine place for
> zope-related gsoc stuff. In the last weeks, however, the list was quite
> quiet.
>
> > We're currently in an interim period lasting until may 28 where the
> > students are supposed to be learning more about their project
> > communities. I've indeed seen some students, but not all, pop up on
> > various Zope related mailing lists. Others have been more quiet. I'd
> > prefer to hear some noise from you guys. Noise (if at least somewhat
> > on-topic) is good for open source communities.
>
> I see the point. However, even in open source communities too much noise
> can be a problem too. Anyway, I might start right now making an idiot of
> myself, to become - at one very, very distant day - as brilliant as
> Martijn ;-)
>
> The problem with making-noise for non-gurus is, that there are many
> excellent brains out on the lists, so I generally prefer to listen
> instead of telling others what to do, simply, because others can do
> better.
>
> For now, I might introduce myself with a very short sketch of my project
> and some trivia. I would like to introduce the project in technical
> terms deeper around the 28th of May and then, indeed, also on the zope3
> list.
>
> Please let me tell you in advance, that I was very excited about my
> project to be chosen to participate in the GSOC. Also the list of
> mentors is the most excellent who-is-who of zope developers one can
> think of. It is an honour to work with you guys. My personal mentor will
> be Phillip von Weitershausen, as you know one of the most active and
> brilliant grok developers. I am very happy to work with you, Phillip.
>
> As some of you might have heard, my project is 'the other' grok project,
> targetting the implementation of an interface for grok. 'Interface'
> means an administration UI for installing and other most important
> administrative things you can do with zope3 components/applications.
>
> Beside this, I will try to improve the documentation (you know, all the
> XXX in the tutorial) and try to integrate some frequently asked zope3
> components.
>
> Currently, I am trying to find out what 'frequently asked' components
> means, to focus in the result on 'most frequently asked' components.
>
> As said in Martijns Mail, the interim period until May 28 is supposed to
> 'get used' to the community and the projects environments. I am
> currently doing that by reading the most important mailing lists,
> (re)reading Phillips excellent zope3-book and trying to be a good
> evangelist in the local community.
>
> This might be the place for some trivia. As some of you might already
> know, I am living in Bonn, the former capital of Western Germany, a town
> of a few hundredthousands of inhibitants located in the south of
> Cologne. It is part of the Rheinland, the area which also includes the
> Neanderthal.
>
> I am currently doing my Ph.D. at the local university and my hobbies are
> literature, zope and soaps (yes, the nifty little soap-operas from
> different countries). I earn my money doing systems administration
> (Linux only) and programming (mostly python/zope-related, but also some
> stuff in Perl, Java, C, C++ and even, sorry, PHP) on a freelancer-basis.
>
> Thanks to Aroldo Souza-Leites tireless exertions we have not only the
> bones of the Neanderthaler-caveman here in Rheinland, but also a vivid
> zope user group, which at the moment tends to become a _grok_ user
> group ;-) The meeting last month, where I had the prvilege to give a
> short introduction into grok, was dedicated to grok and saw more
> interested participants, than any meeting before. This was really
> astonishing! It seems, that people just waited for grok to start to deal
> with zope3. Someone brought also a club (fortunately, nobody was
> injured ;-)
>
> The short talk on grok I had the chance to give on the last meeting will
> be continued this month.
>
> On the initiative of Aroldo (again) we are currently planning a
> grok-sprint for the late summer where I am also involved in the
> preparations and would be very happy to see other grokkers there :-)
>
> Meanwhile I am doing some support for the local grok users (which are
> already planning big projects based on grok and have many, many
> questions ranging from 'how to use macros with grok', via 'AJAX and
> grok' to 'how to use plone with grok') and I am trying to understand
> more clearly all the concepts related to grok and zope3. Naturally, also
> some code is underway.
>
> By the end of next week, I think, I can give a more elaborated sketch of
> the project in general. Okay?
>
> I will also be at the 8th annual congress of the German Zope User Group
> (DZUG) happening at the beginning of June in Potsdam near Berlin. I know
> that some of you will be there too, so this might be a nice opportunity
> to meet each other personally.
>
> I hope, this is enough noise for the very beginning, you do not mind the
> length of this posting and apologize for the bad English.
>
> Ah, and last not least: many thanks to you, Martijn for the wonderful
> world of grok and to all the other contributors which made grok and
> zope3 really happen.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Uli
>
>
>
>
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