This has been one of quite interesting summers I have had, I worked with the Google summer of Code program. Being my first time it was really interesting, to work along the wonderful people in the opensource community.
This summer I was working with the fedora-infra team on the project Fedora College. The project was to develop a virtual classroom environment for new contributors in the community. Though it may look a bit mundane but, it surely does help to solve a major problem i.e. introducing new contributors towards the fedora project.
The project was completed the well within the proposed time line and we are planning to do the packaging of the project in the coming days to deploy it on fedora infrastructure. The main part of the project (i.e. the coding part) was completed well within the timeline, but another part that's deploying and executing the project still remains. We are planning to launch the project as soon as possible, but a large responsibility also lies on the team that manages and creates the content for the fedora project. The project lays great emphasis on the video content and multimedia lectures. We need to have a dedicated team for managing the things.
Also, the web-application is currently not too tightly coupled with the fedora infrastructure. Though the API classes and the fedora message parser are well written and can help significantly for further integration with the fedora messaging system.
So, once the project has been completed I moved to Hong Kong, for my masters studies. Though from the curriculum it appears I wont be able to have much time for continuing the community effort but, I can surely help at times when I am required.
So, anyone who would like to contribute and test the things, could do it here: http://github.com/hammadhaleem/fedora-college
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