[Openstack-internships] Fwd: Outreachy round 12 application

jyoti misra jyotimisra.99 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 22 11:14:15 UTC 2016


Hi sayali,
I ran devstack on my system successfully. Could you suggest a few bugs for
me to fix.

Also can you take a look at my proposal and suggest improvements and an
appropriate time line for the project
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ODX8lxLJiDhkapdLLMzxUjie-0FNRSvbmuCKbRvU0cw/edit?usp=sharing

Regards
Jyoti

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Sayali Lunkad <sayali.92720 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 8:21 AM, jyoti misra <jyotimisra.99 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi sayali,
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:46 AM, Sayali Lunkad <sayali.92720 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jyoti,
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, 2016-03-13 at 03:38 +0530, jyoti misra wrote:
>>> > I am Jyoti Misra from IIIT Hyderabad, India. I work in Lab for
>>> > Spatial Informatics at IIIT-H under the guidance of Dr KS Rajan.
>>> >
>>> > I am interested in working with OpenStack for the outreachy program.
>>> > I read the idea page and the projects interest me a lot.
>>> >
>>> It is nice to see that you are interested in contributing to OpenStack
>>> as a part of the Outreachy program. To apply to the Outreachy
>>> internship you need to first make a small contribution to the project
>>> you are interested in which in this case would be OpenStack. This is
>>> normally done with the help of the mentors for the specific project in
>>> OpenStack you are interested in. This is mainly done so that the
>>> mentors have an idea of your skill and to get you familiar with the
>>> project workflow so it's easy to start contributing once your
>>> internship starts. Normally we do this over IRc on the #openstack-opw
>>> channel. You can join that channel and ping the mentors to help you get
>>> started. Mail is also alright but it is not always the fastest way.
>>>
>>> Thank you for such detailed reply Sayali. I have already installed the
>> software and had a look at it.
>>
>>> > I am particularly interested in
>>> > 1. Horizon- Context-sensitive help in openstack-dashboard and
>>> I can help you out with this project. It is as you see a feature we add
>>> to the openstack-dashboard(horizon). We can discuss this in more
>>> details if you like. You can ping me on IRC, my nick is sayalilunkad.
>>>
>>
>> I read the logs @irc and it seems you are busy till wednesday. But
>> reading the logs what I understand about the project, you want to add a
>> python parser to aid in user searches.
>>
>  No it is not to aid the searched but to improve the help provided when
> user clicks the help button on the openstack-dashboard by providing help
> related to the context of the page the user needs help with.
>
> I have done 2 similar projects using python which I think can be helpful
>> here. One that uses a parser for sentiment analysis and another that parses
>> user's query strings and pases them to an AI bot(written in python by me)
>> to get the relevant answers. I think concepts of Information Retrieval and
>> Extraction would also be useful here about which I am taking a course right
>> now. Please give me some idea/suggestion/feedback on solving this problem
>> if you have any.
>>
>>
>>> > 2. Keystone- LDAP Cleanup
>>> > I think the second project is very important wrt OpenStack as its
>>> > completion will help in adopting python 3.
>>> >
>>> > I am quite familiar with Python, having worked in it for the past 3
>>> > years. And I have done many projects using it.
>>> >
>>> As you know OpenStack is mainly written in python so it is definitely a
>>> plus that you have experience in python.
>>>
>>
>> Yes as said I have worked on python and also on its natural language
>> lib(NLTK).
>>
>> I don't think we will need the NLTK here. The approach suggested was much
> easier, like just read the URL of the current page and derive the context
> and provide help links accordingly. But if you have some more intelligent
> way of deriving the context feel free to share it. Here is the  blueprint
> <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/context-sensitive-help>,
> we can discuss your ideas there with the community.
> So there is no set way to implement it so during the internship period
> also you have the freedom to implement you ideas and propose it to the
> community and if they like it it will be accepted ;).
>
> Also can you also tell me exact requirement of the project so that I can
>> prepare a proposal for the same and a small task to test my technical
>> skills.
>>
> Again you can check the blueprint and for more specific doubts just ping
> me on IRC or write me a mail.
>
>>
>>
>>> > I have a good idea of open source projects in this field. I would
>>> > love to contribute to your organization. Kindly consider me and
>>> > direct me with the project.
>>> >
>>> > Attached is my resume.
>>> > Regards,
>>> > Jyoti
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Sayali.
>>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Jyoti
>>
>>
>
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