Open-Source

Akademy Experience The ‘K’ factor in all the KDE things can be observed at a greater level as an attendee for the annual meeting - Akademy. This program is truly an amazing experience especially for a newcomer in the KDE community. All the comprehensive and lightning talks during the 2 days of conference and the BoFs, Public training sessions plus the hacking sesssions with dedicated rooms or more precisely ‘spaces’ after the conference offers a lot to absorb in technical terms. The best part of Akademy is the blend of technical, non-technical sessions and the social events. ...

Task: To develop a package manager prototype for ROOT. ROOT is a data processing framework created at CERN and used by scientific community, particularly in High Energy Physics (HEP) field. The defined task was to initiate a modularization process for ROOT and to provide a simplified installation routine for ROOT using a package manager. In a collaborative effort with GSOC mentor Oksana Shadura and under supervision of other GSOC mentors Brian Bockelman and Vassil Vassilev, we created a package manager for ROOT - ‘root-get’. ...

It seems like it was like yesterday when I said “Hi” to the community but time flies turning me to a Google Summer of Code student. It has been a remarkable journey from a newcomer in open source to a contributor working for the development of the community :) My task for GSoC is to work on ROOT Package Manager with my mentors Oksana Shadura, Vassil Vassilev and Brian Bockelman. After learning about the existing package managers, further I will work on adding additional functionality using package manager over the minimal base install of core features. This also involves defining ROOT modules, packages and package manager, mainly to scale the large codebase of the project. ROOT is used by different scientific groups and communities for their own purposes. It provides lot of functionalities so as to serve the overall userbase. This task mainly involves simplification of the monolithic ROOT application build process so as to serve the required purpose as per the community requirement rather than building the whole application with all the functionalities. ...

Here, I have added the technical details for the SoK work. Project Name: Improve on monitor controls for image transformations in Kdenlive A Brief Description: For this SoK, I had to accomplish the following task : In addition to resizing and moving the image on the monitor, adding the functionality to – Adjust rotation directly on monitor screen Adjust opacity directly on monitor screen Status of the project: Complete. Mentor: Jean-Baptiste Mardelle ...

Season of KDE is an open source application development program hosted by KDE. I worked for the past two months on one of the most popular open source video editor – Kdenlive. I would like to thank KDE and Kdenlive community for giving me this opportunity to explore and work on such an amazing project. For this SoK, I had to accomplish the following task : In addition to resizing and moving the image on the monitor, adding the functionality to - ...

KWOC is the 5-week long online program for the students who are new to open source software development. The program acts to be the platform for helping students take the steps to get involved in open source and making contributions to the projects. This also prepares students for other open source programs like Google Summer of Code. Getting started I created my first pull request in the second week of november and was just looking for any open source program like GSOC for the winter period. I stumbled upon the KWOC website and was excited to join this program as it seemed to be the preparation for Google Summer of Code. ...