[GSoC] An Introduction about me

[Madhusudan C.S]

Hi all,
   This is an introduction about myself. Since Jacob said,
"And if we don't know them at all, it's hard to trust they'll
get things done." I am writing my involvement in Django and
other FOSS communities in general here to let you all know
something about me. Hope this helps you people to tell me
what I need to learn and how to go about the idea I am
interested in.

I have been interested in contributing to Django even before
GSoC ever flashed to me. In January or so, I badly felt the
need for Multiple Primary Key support (Ticket #373) and
pinged David Crammer about it on #django-dev, since he had
done some work on it. Back then I started to read the Django
ORM code, but could not write any code after that. Thanks to
University coursework :(

Later from early March I have been trying to contribute
something to Django. (I am free from then and will be
mostly free henceforth and totally free in Summer without
any other commitments.) I have had some discussions about
fixing ticket #8161 on django-devel list (http://is.gd/obr2)
but unfortunately it was fixed. So was looking for few other
things and I thought I will apply for GSoC as Django student
since I felt it lowers the barrier to get started. I am
mostly interested in ORM related ideas since I have read
most of django.db.* code. (I am sorry, I am not claiming I
am very well versed in Django ORM, but I have a fair idea of
how the code is written and structured). I am searching for
other ORM related ideas from the ticket list. I will get
back to you all whenever I find I something interesting.

I am involved in FOSS communities from 3 years now and have
Python experience of around 1.25 years. I have contributed
few patches to projects like Melange
(http://code.google.com/p/soc/source/browse/trunk/AUTHORS,
the app on which this year GSoC is run, built on Django),
KDE Step (http://is.gd/oci7), GNUSim8085(worked for Windows
port), RTEMS and quite a few other FOSS projects.


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Thanks and regards,
 Madhusudan.C.S

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