Re: Objectionable selection of students in Debian

[T K Sourabh]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 6:38 AM, haibol...@gmail.com
 wrote:
>
> Hi, I am also a applicant for this project..haha.
>  I saw this mails and am very sorry to hear the bad thing of yours. But the 
> result can't be changed.
> I think you are enough good for this project. And your work showed this.
> So you should not feel cheated, and don't turn anger to the mentor(s) and 
> community.
> We konw, sometimes things are not always so satisfactory. And we should 
> respect for the choice of mentor(s) and community.
> Althought I was not chosen, I am also thank for the mentor(s) and other 
> applicants who gave me hands, of course, and GSoC.
> I also learned some interesting things during this time. Maybe this is a 
> interesting thing of the open source world: I come, without leaving a name, 
> but my spirit is there.
> Thanks.


Hi Haibolaai,

Thank you. This is the nicest thing I have read today. Looking at the
good and amazing things amongst all this chaos is very nice.
I wish you all the best for your future endeavours :)

Cheers
T K Sourab

Re: [GSOC-2018] Project Idea discussion - Extracting data from PDF invoices

[T K Sourabh]

Today's the last day for submission of proposals. Please do it by 21:30
(Indian Standard Time) if you haven't already.

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 5:24 PM, Udit Juneja  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a bachelor's student at Thapar University, India. I know that this
> might be a bit late for the discussion of the GSoC projects. I would still
> like to give it a try and discuss one of the projects I am really excited
> about. I have been reading more about the invoice2data project and I feel
> that it fits well with my skills and interests. I implemented a small
> feature to familiarize myself with the code and the project. It is a basic
> version of invoice2data GUI which supports selecting pdf files and
> extraction of data from that. You can look at the code changes here -
> https://github.com/m3nu/invoice2data/pull/103. I have already listed down
> some improvements that we can make, happy to get more feedback and ideas.
>
> Along with improving the GUI, I will like to contribute to the
> invoice2data GSoC project (https://wiki.debian.org/Summe
> rOfCode2018/Projects/ExtractingDataFromPDFInvoicesAndBills). I am
> planning to submit a proposal for the same. Please let me know if you have
> any comments or suggestions.
>
> Regards,
> Udit Juneja
>

Re: [GSOC][Easy-GnuPG] Willing to help out as co-mentor

[T K Sourabh]

Hey Daniel,

The following are just my "opinions" and anyone is free to disagree.

GPG is a great tool in terms of the functionality and the features it
provides. But it maybe quite cryptic or less user friendly for some
but at the same time there are people who thinks it's extremely
configurable. This is just difference of opinion, which I think is
good as it allows the new users with choice (eg: various Linux
distribution have different philosophy and hence people have choice).

Now what we can do is expose GPG tool such that it provides an API (a
wrapper like EasyGnuPG and PGP Clean room) which is much more simpler
to use. So, what this would help is let people develop their own
solution using this interface, allowing people to build GUI, TUI based
apps or even web based apps(because why not). The API interface needs
to very friendly to developers to encourage them to develop the apps,
with great documentation(I can't stress this enough). Now, multiple
API interface can exist i.e, one may be client written in python, or
in ruby or pretty much any language you want so that it allows various
developers to build according to their "use case".

So, of course features can be shared this way but design philosophy
may differ with the current state of the projects you have mentioned.

Note: my email client defaults to "reply" and not "reply all". So this
is a copy of message that was supposed to be here.

Regards
T K Sourab

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 11:24 PM, Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.pro> wrote:
>
>
> On 23/03/18 10:29, T K Sourabh wrote:
>>
>> I want to help mentoring for porting and distributing EasyGnuPG
>> project, currently in bash, to python using the GPGME library[5]. I am
>> quite proficient in python and am well versed with its various
>> technicalities accompanied with python.
>>
>
>
>
> Thanks for taking an interest in mentoring
>
> I would be interested to know your thoughts about the different roles
> and possibilities for PGP setup in the Clean Room project[1], the
> Easy-GnuPG project[2] and the Wizard project[3], whether any code can be
> shared, etc.
>
> If any other mentors or students want to comment on that it would also
> be welcome.
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel
>
>
> 1.
> https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2018/Projects#SummerOfCode2018.2FProjects.2FPGPCleanRoomKeyManagement.Clean_Room_for_PGP_and_X.509_.28PKI.29_Key_Management
> 2.
> https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2018/Projects#SummerOfCode2018.2FProjects.2FEasyGnuPG.EasyGnuPG_Improvements
> 3.
> https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2018/Projects#SummerOfCode2018.2FProjects.2FWizardForStudentsAndNewInterns.Wizard.2FGUI_helping_students.2Finterns_apply_and_get_started
>