Hi readers,
The bad habit I am having is that I don’t write whatever I do.But now I realised that it’s better to write about what you did to keep the record of it.This is one of the thing I learnt from GSoC.Here comes my journey till the mid term evaluation (June 21st) as a blog to share my experience.
I have previously worked on some social related projects such as “smart guidance for blind” and “sensor based wireless controller”. I have been selected as a speaker for FOSSASIA-16 (Asia’s premier technological event)to talk on the project “smart guidance for blind”. FOSSASIA speakers . It was a great experience participating in the technological event in Singapore science centre.Got an opportunity to meet open source contributors from all over the world(even though it is an Asian event, participation was all over from the world). There were pre-meetups for FOSSASIA on the day before three day event.I have attended the one organised by RedHat, Singapore .Discussed on many topics related to open source.
Three days of FOSSASIA event was a great experience.It was the second timeas a speaker in an international conference.My talk was on the second day.Sharing is the best way to increase your knowledge. Talks and workshops were brainstorming.Learnt many new things and got the courage to contribute to the open source.Met Daniel Pocock in Debian exhibition table.Meeting awesome people can be the turning point of life.Had a discussion about the Debian projects and it motivated me for open source software.We have discussed about the Real Time Communication and was encouraged to apply for GSoC (Google Summer of Code). As per our discussion, prepared the project proposal on “improving voice,video and chat communication with free software” and submitted it for GSoC. I have been selected to contribute for Debian with stipend from Google.
This was my first application for GSoC and I have been selected to contribute for open source and free software. I would like to thank Google and Debian for giving this amazing experience.
Learning and coding has begun.Updated my laptop with Jessie, latest version of Debian.Get acquainted with the new platform.Got to learn many things about Real Time Communication.Learnt more about SIP, XMPP, peer to peer technology to work on my project.It’s always better to be clear with theory before coding.When it comes to voice and video over IP, most people nowadays are quick to use Skype, Whatsapp, or Viber. My main goal of the project are helping people to avoid using proprietary communications tools like Skype, Viber and WhatsApp and simplifying the setup of free alternatives like Jitsi, Linphone, Ekiga, Tox (qtox), Mumble.Downloaded some of the already available open source VoIP to find the problems behind it.Bootstrapping any business relevant network based on these free alternatives is still hard.
Would you like to list the senders, receivers and date of the messages in the inbox of your mail.python has a library file IMAP which can be used to connect to anemail account, examine every message in every folder andlook at the“To”, “From” and “CC” headers of every email message in the folder.
Do you have phone numbers and other contact details in old emails? Would you like a quick way to data-mine your inbox to find them and help migrate them to your address book? Got the help from phonenumbers libraryfor parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers.I would like to share how I imported this library file into my coding.Download the given library file and open the file in the terminal.Type $python setup.pyto include the library file.Now you can call the functions by importing phonenumbers.
You can go through the code in my GitHub profile here .(Recently started committing my projects into GitHub)
It was a wonderful journey till now.Will be working further to improve voice, video and chat communication with free software.Stay connected to know more about my further journey through GSoC.