Yearbook 2013 – GNOME Outreach Program
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YEARBOOK 2013 GNOME OutrEACH PrOGRAM Editor, Layout & Design: Daniel G. Siegel <[email protected]> With LOTS OF HELP BY AleXANDRE FrANKe, Allan Day, AndrEAS Nilsson, Christophe Fergeau, Ekaterina GerASIMOva, Fabiano Fidêncio, Jakub Steiner, KarEN Sandler, Marina ZhurAKHINSKAYA AND Zeeshan Ali (Khattak). Last UPDATED ON August 1, 2013. This DOCUMENT IS LICENSED UNDER A CrEATIVE Commons Attribution – ShareAlikE license. Contents 1 ForEWORD4 2 WORDS BY THE GNOME OutrEACH Admins5 3 Students & INTERNS7 Aakanksha Gaur8 • Aakash Goenka9 • AlessandrO Campagni 10 • AleX MuñoZ 11 • Anton Belka 12 • Aruna SankarANARAYANAN 13 • Bogdan Gabriel Ciobanu 14 • Camilo Polymeris 15 • Carlos Soriano 16 • Dylan McCall 17 • Eslam Mostafa 18 • Evgeny Bobkin 19 • Flavia WEISGHIZZI 20 • Garima Joshi 21 • GökCEN ErASLAN 22 • Guillaume MazoYER 23 • Joris VALETTE 24 • KaleV Lember 25 • Lavanya GunasekarAN 26 • Magdalen Berns 27 • MarCOS Chavarría TEIJEIRO 28 • Mathieu Duponchelle 29 • Mattias Bengtsson 30 • Meg ForD 31 • Melissa S. R. WEN 32 • Parin PorECHA 33 • P¯ETERIS KrišJ¯ANIS 34 • Pooja SaxENA 35 • Rafael Fonseca 36 • RicharD Schwarting 37 • Sai Suman PrAYAGA 38 • Sam Bull 39 • Satabdi Das 40 • Saumya Dwivedi 41 • Saumya Pathak 42 • Sébastien Wilmet 43 • Shivani Poddar 44 • Simon Corsin 45 • Sindhu S 46 • TiffANY YAU 47 • Ting-WEI Lan 48 • TOMASZ MaczyńSKI 49 • Valentín BarrOS 50 • Victor TOSO 51 • Xuan Hu 52 • ŽAN DoberšEK 53 4 Sponsors 54 3 ForEWORD Dear GNOME Lovers, WELCOME TO GNOME! As EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE GNOME Foundation AND A I THINK I CAN SAFELY SAY, HOWEver, THAT IF YOU’RE READING MENTOR IN THE OPW, I HOPE YOU USE ALL OF THE RESOURCES THIS YOU’RE ALREADY AN IMPORTANT PART OF GNOME. Whether WE CAN PROVIDE YOU TO INTEGRATE FULLY INTO THE COMMUNITY. I IT’S BECAUSE YOU PARTICIPATED IN Google Summer OF Code, ENCOURAGE YOU TO SAY HI TO PEOPLE YOU DON’T KNOW, TO par- OUR OWN OutrEACH PrOGRAM FOR WOMEN OR JOINED AS PART TICIPATE ON MAILING LISTS AND TO KEEP DIVING in. As A SOFTWARE OF ANOTHER OUTREACH Effort, YOU’VE HELPED MAKE GNOME FREEDOM advocate, I HOPE YOU ARE AS MOVED AND INSPIRED WHAT IT is. As A FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PRoject, WE AS I AM BY YOUR FELLOW CONTRIBUTORS AND JUST GET A KICK OUT ARE OUR COMMUNITY. And WE NEED YOUR NEW ideas, enthu- OF MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE THROUGH SOFTWARe. SIASM AND commitment. WE HAVE DONE SOME GREAT WORK For THE WISENED AND EXPERIENCED OLD SKOOL GNOME IN THE 16 YEARS OUR PROJECT HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE BUT WE HACKERS - IF YOU flIP THROUGH THIS book, PLEASE TAKE THE TIME CAN ALWAYS DO better. YOU ARE IN A UNIQUE POSITION TO HELP TO GET TO KNOW OUR NEWEST contributors. Don’T FORGET WHAT US IMPROVE THINGS THAT WE TAKE FOR GRANTED BECAUSE “IT’S IT’S LIKE TO GET started. IF YOU can, OffER TO LEND A hand! THE WAY WE’VE ALWAYS DONE them.” While WE ARE AN OLD NeXT year, I HOPE ALL OF THE NEWCOMERS IN THIS BOOK HAVE PRoject, GNOME 3 IS STILL A RELATIVELY NEW endeavor. TherE’S FULLY JOINED THE RANKS OF EXPERIENCED contributors, HAVE SO MUCH OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO SHAPE THE DIRECTION OF THE TAKEN SATISFACTION IN CONTRIBUTING TO OUR PROJECT AND HAVE PRoject. Our COMMUNITY IS CONSTANTLY Evolving. PERHAPS EVEN EXTENDED A HAND TO NEW NEwcomers. KarEN Sandler ExECUTIVE Director, GNOME Foundation 4 WORDS BY THE GNOME OutrEACH Admins Dear interns, The GNOME COMMUNITY IS THRILLED TO HAVE YOU partici- Over THE LAST years, WE MADE VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS TO PATING IN THE THREE MONTHS INTERNSHIPS WITH THE PRoject! HELP YOU CONNECT WITH THE PROJECT EARLY on, ENSURE WHAT WE HOPE YOU ARE fiNDING YOUR WAY ARound, MAKING FRIENDS YOU ARE PROPOSING AND WORKING ON IS RELEvant, AND GIVE vis- WITH OTHER contributors, AND SEEING THE DIffERENCE YOUR IBILITY TO YOUR work. These PRACTICES INCLUDE MAKING SURE WORK MAKES IN IMPROVING GNOME. EACH INTERN CONNECTS WITH A POTENTIAL MENTOR AHEAD OF WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK Google FOR SPONSORING BOTH time, CONTRIBUTES A PATCH TO THE RELEVANT MODULE AS PART OF Google Summer OF Code AND GNOME OutrEACH Pro- THE APPLICATION PRocess, AND HAS BLOG POSTS WITH PROGRESS GRAM FOR WOMEN internships. WE ALSO WOULD LIKE TO THANK UPDATES INCORPORATED ON Planet GNOME. Certainly THEY in- Bloomberg, Mozilla, Red Hat, THE FrEE SoftwarE Founda- CLUDE THIS YEARBOOK too! WE HOPE YOU fiND CONTRIBUTING TO tion, AND THE GNOME Foundation FOR SPONSORING GNOME GNOME ADDICTIVE AND fun, AND STICK AROUND AFTER THE END OutrEACH PrOGRAM FOR WOMEN internships. IT IS DEEPLY OF YOUR internships. VALUABLE TO THE GNOME PROJECT THAT THE GENEROUS SUPPORT GNOME IS People, AND GROWING OUR COMMUNITY GROWS OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS ALLOWS YOU TO FOCUS THREE MONTHS THE POTENTIAL OF OUR SOFTWARe. WE WELCOME YOU AND WHAT OF YOUR LIFE ON GNOME. YOU BRING TO THE COMMUNITY WITH OPEN arms! SincerELY, AleXANDRE FrANKe, Christophe Fergeau, Daniel G. Siegel, Fabiano Fidêncio, Marina ZhurAKHINSKAYA AND Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) GNOME OutrEACH AdministrATORS 5 Interns, Students, Mentors AND Admins OF 2011/2012 AT GUADEC Photo BY Ana ReY OutrEACH PrOGRAM FOR WOMEN January–April 2013 OutrEACH PrOGRAM FOR WOMEN June–September 2013 Summer OF Code 2013 7 Aakanksha Gaur http://www.wowsig.in/ [email protected] WOWSIG UX Design (PrOJECT Page) Allan Day INFORMATION AND INTERFACE Design NeW Delhi, INDIA “Good DESIGN IS invisible.” HoW WOULD YOU INTRODUCE YOURSELF IN 2 lines? What DO YOU LIKE TO DO WHEN NOT HACKING ON GNOME? I AM artist, WORKING TO MAKE EVERY EXPERIENCE AN Experi- I LIKE TO PAINT WHENEVER I GET MY HANDS ON A CANVAS AND ENCE OF art. colors. I ALSO LIKE TO ILLUSTRATE AND Read. TELL US ABOUT YOUR PRoject! What ARE YOUR PLANS FOR AFTER OPW? I AM WORK WITH GNOME ON THE User Experience AND Us- I WOULD CONTINUE TO WORK ON GNOME MARKETING AND ABILITY OF THE GNOME desktop. BRANDING AND START WITH MY OWN CONSULTANCY WORK ON de- sign. Why THIS PROJECT AND ORganization? Open SOURCE PROJECTS ARE ONE OF THE highest-impact Most INTEResting/useless FACT YOU KNOW? PROJECTS FOR A WIDE RANGE OF communities, IT BECOMES im- The WOWSIGNAL WAS AN EXTRA TERRESTRIAL SIGNAL THAT LASTED PERATIVE THAT PEOPLE CAN “USE” THE SOFTWARE EffiCIENTLY. I FOR 72 SECONDS THAT THE Big Ear TELESCOPE observed. WAS A PRIOR GNOME USER AND WANTED TO IMPROVE THE Us- ABILITY AND HENCE CONTRIBUTING TO A BETTER USER EXPERIENCE FOR USERS OF GNOME. 8 Aakash Goenka http://desicoder.worDPRess.com/ [email protected] AAKASH Add Bookshelf VieW & Tiling sup- PORT TO Evince (PrOJECT Page) Jose Aliste Computer Science & Engineering INDIA “Randomness Rules!” HoW WOULD YOU INTRODUCE YOURSELF IN 2 lines? What DO YOU LIKE TO DO WHEN NOT HACKING ON GNOME? Hi! I AM A TECHNOLOGY ADDICT WHO ALSO LIKES TO TRavel. I AM I LOVE TO TRAVEL AND AM ALSO A NOOB TREKKer. Then, I ALSO A VEGETARIAN AND TOTAL foodie. I’M ALSO A BIG FAN OF THE DIY HAVE A VAGUE INTEREST IN PHOTOGRAPHY. And yes, I NEVER CULTURe. PASS A CHANCE TO PLAY TABLE tennis! TELL US ABOUT YOUR PRoject! What ARE YOUR PLANS FOR AFTER GSoC? I AM WORKING ON IMPROVING Evince. I AM WORKING ON TWO Continue WORKING WITH GNOME. Also, INTRODUCE MY JUNIORS things. One IS TO ADD A BOOKSHELF LIKE VIEW OF RECENT items. IN SCHOOL TO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF OPEN SOURce, AND en- Secondly, I AM WORKING ON ADDING SUPPORT FOR TILED Render- COURAGE THEM TO CONTRIBUTE TO it. ING SO THAT Evince CAN SUPPORT HIGHER ZOOM LEvels. Most INTEResting/useless FACT YOU KNOW? Why THIS PROJECT AND ORganization? Nagasaki WASN’T THE ORIGINAL TARGET OF THE Fat Man bomb! The PRoject, BECAUSE I WANTED TO LEARN SOMETHING NEW. The ORIGINAL ONE WAS SPARED DUE TO clouds. The ORganization, BECAUSE I HAVE USED GNOME EVER SINCE I BEGAN USING Linux. IT’S WONDERFUL TO NOW WORK WITH THE or- GANISATION WHOSE WORK I HAD ONLY BEEN USING ALL THIS time. I am 9 attending BRNO CZECH REPUBLIC AlessandrO Campagni http://scia.mp [email protected] SCIAMP Dual SCREEN CAPABLE PRESENTATION IN GNOME Documents (PrOJECT Page) Cosimo Cecchi Mathematics Florence, ITALY “DUM DIffERTUR VITA TRANSCURRIT” – Seneca HoW WOULD YOU INTRODUCE YOURSELF IN 2 lines? What DO YOU LIKE TO DO WHEN NOT HACKING ON GNOME? I TALK A lot, I LOVE eating, BEER AND SOME GOOD music. I I PLAY MY guitar, SHOOT SOME PICTURES AND ENJOY WRITING MY OVERTHINK ALMOST EVERYTHING AND CAN’T RESIST TRYING TO SOLVE THOUGHTS WITH AMAZING FOUNTAIN pens! PRoblems! What ARE YOUR PLANS FOR AFTER GSoC? TELL US ABOUT YOUR PRoject! I DON’T KNOW BUT I THINK fiNISHING MY STUDIES AND OF COURSE My PROJECT IS ABOUT BUILDING A DUAL SCREEN CAPABLE PResen- CONTRIBUTING IN THE GNOME PROJECT IN MY SPARE TIME :D TATION TOOL INSIDE Evince’S LIBVIEW WITH NEXT SLIDE PREVIEW, NOTES AND OTHER gadgets. No MORE SURPRISES WHEN YOU Most INTEResting/useless FACT YOU KNOW? CHANGE slide! A TOPOLOGIST IS A MATHEMATICIAN WHO CAN’T TELL A COffEE CUP FROM A doughnut. Why THIS PROJECT AND ORganization? I LOVE GNOME AND I USE IT IN EVERYDAY life, IMPROVING GNOME IS MY DREAM job. GSoC IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO TRY TO HELP MAKE GNOME better! I am 10 attending BRNO CZECH REPUBLIC AleX MuñoZ http://aleXMUDOz.blogspot.com [email protected] ALEXMUDOZ GNOME TWEAK TOOL UI RefrESH (PrOJECT Page) John StoWERS Computer Engineering Curicó, Chile “Playfully DOING SOMETHING DIfficult, WHETHER USEFUL OR not, THAT IS hacking.” – RicharD Stallman HoW WOULD YOU INTRODUCE YOURSELF IN 2 lines? tors, TheY TOLD ME ABOUT GNOME AND HIS AMAZING com- I’M A Chilean Student WHO LOVES WRITING SOFTWARE AND MUNITY.