Shanky's Brainchild

Event report for DebUtsav Delhi 2019

Posted on Sat 20 April 2019 in Meetup

The Debian India Community in Delhi along with Mozilla Delhi/NCR community organized DebUtsav Delhi 2019 on 9 and 10 March, 2019.

Google Summer of Code 2018 with Debian - Final Report

Posted on Mon 13 August 2018 in GSoC

Three weeks of Google Summer of Code went off to be life-changing for me. I learned a lot about soft skills and project management as well. This here is the summary of my work which also serves as my Final Report of Google Summer of Code 2018.

Google Summer of Code 2018 with Debian - Week 5

Posted on Wed 20 June 2018 in GSoC

Following reviews by my mentor Sanyam, I had to refactor most of my code on all the merge requests. This was a week of understanding how we write code is as important as what we code!

Google Summer of Code 2018 with Debian - Week 4

Posted on Tue 12 June 2018 in GSoC

The designs which I created for Sign Up, Sign In and Dashboard during the first couple of weeks saw the light of code this week. The learning curve for KIVY was steep but now I can deploy a feature every couple of days. Here's how!

Google Summer of Code 2018 with Debian - Week 3

Posted on Mon 04 June 2018 in GSoC

Third week of GSoC was all about working on the code and it's quality. It's the first time I started using KIVY and here's how it went.

Google Summer of Code 2018 with Debian - Week 1 and 2

Posted on Mon 28 May 2018 in GSoC

GSoC 2018 has begun and for me, it is also a journey of exploring Debian organization. Here's a blog about what I learned during community bonding period and what I've done during the first couple of weeks.

Google Summer of Code 2018 - Blog 2 - The Application Task and Results

Posted on Mon 30 April 2018 in GSoC

While preparing for Google Summer of Code, I had to complete Application Task provided by the mentors. In this blog I explained about the same, announcement of GSoC 2018 students and my acceptance into the program.

Google Summer of Code 2018 - Blog 1 - From Preparations to Debian to Proposal

Posted on Sat 31 March 2018 in GSoC

Being an open source contributor for more than a year I decided to get the best out of me by taking part in one of the biggest internship programs in the world. Here's how I started!