Thanks Suresh, I will give it a try as you have mentioned and see. I understood after going through the discussions that it seems to be challenging work for a beginner. But I am willing to give it a try.
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Damith, > > The JIRA only mentioned FLEX to indicate there are other implementations. > But XBaya is currently in Java and this task is to change it to java script > based. > > Frankly, this year Airavata GSoC projects will be very tough on beginners, > since we are expecting lot of co-ordination among all projects and also it > takes lot of diving into the code and understand what is happening. I would > encourage you to engage with the mailing list and learn through, but I > would advice to pick a smaller project to start with for this year. > Unfortunately all projects in Airavata this year have high barrier to entry. > > Suresh > > On Apr 18, 2013, at 11:22 PM, Damith Senanayake <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I am a first time participant for GSoC this year and am interested in > > working with the Airavata project. I am currently getting familiar with > > Airavata and XBaya and I noticed a proposal to create a web-based user > > interface replacing/in-addition-to XBaya in this link: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRAVATA-798. > > > > While I understand it is a large project (or several projects as far as > > GSoC is concerned) I would like to contribute to this development. > > > > I am currently an undergraduate in University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka- > > Department of Computer Science and Engineering. I have had experience > with > > Web Development in PHP, DartLang and also several CMSs. Although, I must > > say that I am a complete novice to FLEX which is used to develop XBaya. > And > > I would like to learn as I go. > > > > Could you please help me to get started with it, and point me in the > right > > direction, as I am a beginner? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > -- > > -Damith Senanayake- > > -- -Damith Senanayake-
