I've been selected for GSoC 2014!
My project is to implement XMLHttpRequest in Servo (proposal), under Mozilla (mentored by the awesome Josh Matthews)
Servo is a browser engine written in Rust. The Servo project is basically a research project, where Mozilla is trying to rethink the way browser engines are designed and try to make one which is more memory safe (The usage of Rust is very crucial to this goal), and much more parallel. If you'd like to learn more about it, check out this talk or join #servo on irc.mozilla.org.
My project is to implement XMLHttpRequest in Servo (proposal), under Mozilla (mentored by the awesome Josh Matthews)
Servo is a browser engine written in Rust. The Servo project is basically a research project, where Mozilla is trying to rethink the way browser engines are designed and try to make one which is more memory safe (The usage of Rust is very crucial to this goal), and much more parallel. If you'd like to learn more about it, check out this talk or join #servo on irc.mozilla.org.
What is GSoC?
Google Summer of Code is a program by Google that helps jumpstart involvement in open source amongst students. Organizations are invited to float their own open source projects, and students float project proposals. If selected, you get to code the project over the summer, working closely with the mentor. It's supposed to be a great experience, and I'm glad I'll get to be a part of it this year!
Who else got selected?
One purpose of this post was to recognize all my friends and college-mates who got selected:
Mozillia India friends
- Saurabh Anand (sawrubh): FileLinks in IMs / File transfer
- Avik Pal: Sound Visualization And Sound Effects In Artikulate
- Sukant Garg (gargsms): Add learning capability in the Gaia Keyboard prediction
- Pankaj Malhotra (bitgeeky): Functional Test Suite and Features for QA Taskboard - One and Done
- Suyash Agarwal (sshagarwal): Thunderbird - Make the unit test framework work with maildir mailbox format
- Sunny (darkolwzz): Implement Zest recorder and runner
Other IITB-ians
- Alankar Kotwal: Image Pixel Based Photometric Redshift Estimation
- Sushant Hiray: Extending Elementary Functions in CSymPy
- Navin Chandak: pgmpy : Implementation of Undirected Graphical Models and its algorithms
- Aman Mangal: Work Stealing Scheduling on Parallella
- Saket Choudhary: Human Genetic Variation Viewer
- Kunal Tyagi: Integration of ROS and Gazebo with Tango Controls
- Aditya Nambiar: Visualization for Mailing stats and A/B testing
- Anand Soni: Improvement of automatic benchmarking system
- Praveen Kumar Pendyala: Android based remote display
- S K Savant: Multiview Registration
- Abhishek Bhowmick: Performance Optimization with VOLK
- Roshan Raghupathy: Expand and Improve Boost.Compute
- Dushyant Sabharwal: Proposal for Access Control User Interface for SOS Servers
- Siddhant Rajagopalan: Mail Blast UI
