User:Prakhar

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Olpcboxes en-5 This user is able to contribute with a professional level of English. This user's time zone is UTC+5:30. IRC Nick: Prakhar,Prakhar_Geek

Biography

I’m a 19 year old student pursuing my undergrad from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University, Noida with Information Technology as my major. I have been developing applications as university projects until now and have also have worked as a freelancer. At present, I’m in 3rd year of my undergrad studies and leading my University’s Library R&D Team.

I’m passionate about developing user-oriented applications. Combined with my interest and specialization in GUI designing, I have always been regarded as one of the best designers of numerous applications in my University. Users’ perspective and feedback about the software really fascinates and motivates me to build more friendly designs. During my Data Structures course I developed a text editor application “TextPRO” in ‘C’ language. And again, during my Object Oriented Programming course, I developed typing tutor “TypeTut”, built in C++.

I have been following open source technologies since almost a year as a user. Attending various FOSS events was the major highlight of this incubation period. And now I want to enter the development phase so that I can start contributing to the open source community as soon as possible. During my search to initiate the process I started exploring new horizons and came across GSoC. It’s a stupendous effort from Google and all the organizations to promote Open Source. I look forward to GSoC as a great platform for aspiring developers/contributors to get involved in open source community. It’s a fantastic and “open” learning opportunity for me to work with experienced and senior developers of Open Source. In a nutshell, I was really impressed by this initiative and thanked God. The very first organization I checked out was One Laptop Per Child, just because it carried a social cause. I would be very happy if I can contribute to the motive of OLPC. Thanks!

This would be my first experience in Open source Development. And, I would like to thank OLPC for considering me as potential candidate for GSoC2008. I look forward to spend an awesome summer. Cheers!

Proposal

I wish to develop a Typing Tutor for XO Machine. Please read My Proposal

Areas of Interest/Specialization

• Desktop/Web Application development
• Human Computer Interaction
• Database Administration