Dinukaa's Blog

Hello everyone... GSoC coding officially started on 30th May 2017!  Over the past weeks in community bonding period I was able to work on my plan, Finalized the overall structure of user manual content with the support of my mentors. Finalized meeting times with mentors and other students who are working on Music Blocks related projects. Created mock prototypes into 5 themes for the content structure and shared them with mentors for suggestions and made changes as per suggestions.  Finalized one theme among prototypes as the Music Blocks user manual website theme.  Sticking to my timeline, I finalized documentation structure and the web template by the end of May. June first week is for me to build the web template and test it. Here you can find the code for designed web pages:  https://github.com/Tharangi/MusicBlocksUserManual-GSoC-2017 . For the next five weeks, I will be working on the content creation of the Music Blocks user manual with the ...

Hello everyone...I will be using Dinukaa's Blog as a platform to share my weekly progress reports on GSoC 2017 with Sugar Labs throughout the project process. It is not easy to get selected for Google Summer of Code(GSoC), I would say you should be smart and lucky at the same time! I planned to apply for GSoC since second-year at university and finally, in the final year, I was able to succeed from my first attempt for GSoC with Sugar Labs. You can find about Sugar Labs from  here . I was really happy when I saw my name under accepted students and for me it was a significant moment to share on social media too. You can find my project proposal from here . After the proposal submission and before the announcement of selected students, I kept my engagement with mentors and project. I conducted a user studies survey on Music Blocks and myself and mentors were able to get a rough idea on how newbies see Music Blocks. Now community bonding period is happening! ...