GSoC 2021 is completed!

[Vinita Murthi]

Hi all,

Hope everyone is doing well!

I am really happy to announce that GSoC 2021 is wrapped up successfully and all of our 18 students have passed!

A huge congratulations to all the students as well as their mentors, for the amazing work they have done :) 

• Abhay Garg: Introduce support for displaying copyright licenses in the app (Mentored by: Rajat Talesra)

• Aditya Dubey: Move custom JS\TS lint checks to eslint (Mentored by: Anshul Hudda)

• Aishwary Saxena: Write frontend tests (Mentored by: Kevin Thomas)

• Apoorv Srivastava: Implement lightweight checkpointing (Mentored by: Pulkit Aggarwal)

• Arjun Gupta: Implement feature flags & platform parameters (Mentored by: Vinita Murthi)

• Aryaman Gupta: Improve Exploration save flow: Syncing edits in the background (Mentored by: Kevin Thomas)

• Ashutosh Chauhan: Angular migration (Mentored by: Srijan Reddy Vasa)

• Eesha Arif: Improve frontend type system (Mentored by: Vojtěch Jelínek)

• Farees Hussain Syed: End-to-End testing support (Mentored by: Akshay Nandwana)

• Gangavarapu Praneeth: Write frontend tests (Mentored by: Nithesh Hariharan)

• Hardik Katehara: Make backend code typed (Mentored by: Sajal Asati)

• Krishita Jain: Redesigning and updating the learner dashboard (Mentored by: Akshay Anand)

• Mridul Setia: Improve frontend type system (Mentored by: Srijan Reddy Vasa)

• Nikhil Agarwal: Implement schema validators for the handler params (Mentored by: Rohit Katlaa)

• Radesh Kumar: Write frontend tests (Mentored by: Nithesh Hariharan)

• Rijuta Singh: Integrating the Oppia blog with Oppia.org (Mentored by: Prayush Dawda)

• Sparsh Agrawal: Static analysis checks + Improvements (Mentored by: Ben Henning)

• Yash Raj: Developer options menu (Mentored by: Sarthak Agarwal)

To dive into the details of the work done by our students and the new things they learnt, please check their blog posts here.

Thanks a lot for all your contributions to both the web and the android repositories, and for building our community! 

Thanks,

Vojta & Vinita