On May 5th night, we had a hangout call with our project mentors and other GSoC students of WikiToLearn team.
This is the first hangout call we had with respect to GSoC.

We discussed the following things :

* Having a blog account and keep updating the progress in it. Also to find a way to mirror our blog and WikiToLearn wiki page to keep track of everything.

* Gianluca explained about the need of KDE account, Phabricator.

* All our current source code are hosted on Github, we may move to KDE QuickGit someday soon.

* We discussed our project proposals. We felt it will be a good idea if we inform about our project ideas to upstream contributors, MediaWiki contributors so that they could help us if we have any problem with respect to MediaWiki extension development.

* Make use of WikiToLearn tech channel effectively for every technical problem because we have experienced people there who could help us to solve it.

Things which I have done till now :

* Created an account on KDE identity.

* Got KDE developer access.

* Aggregated my Blog with KDE planet.

* Have an account on Phabricator.

* Have an account on KDE Bugtracking System. (WikiToLearn team doesn’t use it much.)

* Updated my user page on WikiToLearn.

* Created a doc which shows a list of days and hours I’ll be working/taking off.

* Running MediaWiki instance locally in my system.

* Installed and enabled VisualEditor. (Playing with it)

* Spending some amount of time in configuring Parsoid server. (I need to link VisualEditor and Parsoid server so that they talk each other and enables me to create and save wiki pages.)

Things I’ll work on next :

* Configure Parsoid server.

* Design workflow scheme for collaborative editor extension.

* Try out some simple VE extensions.

Something I’ve wanted to say for more than a year. Yes! I am a GSoCer now!
This was one among my biggest dreams.

GSoC – Google Summer of Code is an annual program, in which Google awards healthy stipends to students for contributing to Open Source projects.

All these days, I was spending most of my time fixing bugs on different open source projects. Now I have got the opportunity to work with WikiToLearn,  a proud member of KDE community, for a long period of time, implementing a new feature to wiki editor.

I would like to tell a bit about our WikiToLearn – WikiToLearn wants to provide free, collaborative and accessible textbooks to the whole world.
Our philosophy is synthesized in the sentence: “knowledge only grows if shared”. We provide a platform where learners and teachers can together complete, refine and re-assemble notes, lecture notes in order to create textbooks, tailored precisely to their needs so that you can “stand on the shoulders of giants”.

I should thank my mentors Cristian Baldi, Gianluca Rigoletti  and other community members for helping me in reviewing and getting a great project proposal done. I’m really excited to work with them this summer.

Looking at previous GSOCers like Sayan, Sagar, Vignesh, Parth was always motivating me to contribute to open source and become a GSoCer.
I thank F.S.M.K, DGPLUG, and our GLUG-DSCE which taught me a lot about free/open source technologies.

More love to WikiToLearn  folks for giving me this opportunity to work with them.

You can have a look at my proposal abstract here.
Soon I’ll push my complete project proposal on GitHub.

The real fun begins now.