Thank you Suresh, that would be great. I will keep in touch. Thanks again.
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> wrote: > Thats nice. We will be happy to help guide as much as we can, but I also > keep exploring other options so if you realize this might be a tough road > for you, you will have backups. > > Suresh > > On Apr 19, 2013, at 7:46 AM, Damith Senanayake <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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- > > -- -Damith Senanayake-
