<div dir="ltr">Hi Rachee and Emaad,<div><br><div style>It sounds great. we'd love to have you on board for the summer developing one of the tasks.</div><div style>Which steps should we follow? It looks like the deadline is June 7th, so we don't have much time.</div>
</div><div style><br></div><div style>Where are you and the coach based? which rails projects have you been involved with?</div><div style><br></div><div style>best,</div><div style>p</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Emaad Ahmed Manzoor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emaadmanzoor@gmail.com" target="_blank">emaadmanzoor@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br>
<br>
I am pairing up with Rachee Singh (+cc) to participate in the Rails<br>
Girls Summer of Code this year (<a href="http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org" target="_blank">railsgirlssummerofcode.org</a>).<br>
<br>
The application involves finding a pair (we've got the two of us), a<br>
coach (we've got Derek Hammer from Thoughtworks, <a href="http://www.derekhammer.com" target="_blank">www.derekhammer.com</a>)<br>
and a mentoring organization (PageOneX?). Since we were looking for<br>
projects in the free information and society domain, we thought<br>
PageOneX would be exciting to contribute to, and were wondering if we<br>
could ship something cool with you folks over the three month RGSoC<br>
period.<br>
<br>
We saw that you've just released your Beta and dug this up from the<br>
list archives:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kXdeIo_iM2_rI_MAyOvN-sfBj2PH7PYqayenHE0H6uk/edit#heading=h.h6ruvli3so5u" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kXdeIo_iM2_rI_MAyOvN-sfBj2PH7PYqayenHE0H6uk/edit#heading=h.h6ruvli3so5u</a><br>
<br>
Maybe we could pitch in with one of these tasks? Since the two of us<br>
are reasonably proficient programmers, with some web development (both<br>
server and client-side) experience, we could aim to contribute a<br>
large-ish complete feature over the course of this period. A bit of<br>
background about us:<br>
<br>
Rachee Singh<br>
<br>
- Github: <a href="https://github.com/racheesingh/" target="_blank">https://github.com/racheesingh/</a><br>
- Blogs: <a href="http://racheesingh.github.io/" target="_blank">http://racheesingh.github.io/</a>, <a href="http://racheesingh.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://racheesingh.wordpress.com/</a><br>
- GSoC 2012 with CERN:<br>
<a href="http://racheesingh.github.io/2012/05/21/gsoc-2012-with-cernt-sft/" target="_blank">http://racheesingh.github.io/2012/05/21/gsoc-2012-with-cernt-sft/</a><br>
- Published in the Android Cookbook with Ian Darwin, awarded an<br>
OSCon pass for being the top contributor.<br>
- Won the COMSOL Conference Student Poster prize for a poster on<br>
simulating diffuse optical tomography.<br>
<br>
Emaad Ahmed Manzoor<br>
<br>
- Github: <a href="https://github.com/emaadmanzoor/" target="_blank">https://github.com/emaadmanzoor/</a><br>
- Blogs: <a href="http://eyeshalfclosed.com/blog/" target="_blank">http://eyeshalfclosed.com/blog/</a>, <a href="http://halfclosed.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://halfclosed.wordpress.com/</a><br>
- LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/emaadmanzoor" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/emaadmanzoor</a><br>
- Independent SoC doing Debian packaging for MVHub at UMass,<br>
Lowell: <a href="http://thecsl.org/go/fake-blog/packaged_divorce.shtml" target="_blank">http://thecsl.org/go/fake-blog/packaged_divorce.shtml</a><br>
- Built and maintain Graphy, a graph algorithm visualizer:<br>
<a href="http://emaadmanzoor.github.com/graphy/" target="_blank">http://emaadmanzoor.github.com/graphy/</a><br>
- Built a couple of websites: <a href="http://www.bits-waves.org/2010/" target="_blank">http://www.bits-waves.org/2010/</a>,<br>
<a href="http://www.schooltek.in" target="_blank">http://www.schooltek.in</a><br>
<br>
Shared Achievements:<br>
<br>
- Mentored students in Android development for the MIT Indian<br>
Mobile Initiative: <a href="http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/teams/view/148" target="_blank">http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/teams/view/148</a><br>
- Winner at Random Hacks of Kindness Bangalore, 2011: Built a<br>
low-cost tracking device for school buses to notify parents when to<br>
pick their kids up.<br>
- Participated in Random Hacks of Kindness Bangalore, 2013: Built a<br>
reward miles system by OCR'ing bus tickets, to encourage public<br>
transport.<br>
- Presented a PyCon 2012 tutorial on Beanstalkd:<br>
<a href="https://speakerdeck.com/emaadmanzoor/building-a-cluster-with-python-and-beanstalkd" target="_blank">https://speakerdeck.com/emaadmanzoor/building-a-cluster-with-python-and-beanstalkd</a><br>
- Built an interactive physics simulation of the Foucault's<br>
pendulum, contributing to free educational resources online:<br>
<a href="http://github.com/racheesingh/Physics-Simulations" target="_blank">http://github.com/racheesingh/Physics-Simulations</a><br>
<br>
Looking forward to your responses!<br>
Emaad.<br>
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