[Interop-dev] [gsoc-mentors-2017] GSoC 2017 student application
Nemesis
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Mon Mar 27 17:33:46 CEST 2017
Hi Xiang,
thanks I will leave you a review in the GSOC system.
Federico
On 03/27/2017 10:50 AM, Xiang Gao wrote:
> Hi, Federico
>
> I’ve submit my proposal on the GSOC website. thanks for your reminder
> and please review.
>
> Xiang
>
> /------/
> /高翔/
> /Email: (spam-protected) <mailto:(spam-protected)> |
> (spam-protected) <mailto:(spam-protected)>
> WeChat: geekplus/
> /Blog: //http://geekplux.com//
>
>> On Mar 27, 2017, at 16:46, Nemesis <(spam-protected)
>> <mailto:(spam-protected)>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Xiang,
>>
>> we have not heard back from you. Let us know if you still intend to
>> apply for this project idea, if yes, please reply to the comments I've
>> sent in the last email.
>>
>> Federico
>>
>>
>> On 03/13/2017 12:40 PM, Nemesis wrote:
>>> Welcome back Xiang,
>>>
>>> On 03/10/2017 07:58 PM, GeekPlux wrote:
>>>> I’m so sorry for the late reply, because I’m fighing for a deadline for
>>>> a paper job.
>>>
>>> No problem.
>>>
>>>> NetJSON project proposal
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> About me
>>>>
>>>> * Name: Xiang Gao (高翔)
>>>> * Email: (spam-protected) <mailto:(spam-protected)>
>>>> <mailto:(spam-protected)>
>>>> * Blog: http://geekplux.com/
>>>> * GitHub: https://github.com/geekplux
>>>> * Twitter: https://twitter.com/geekplux
>>>> * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geekplux/
>>>> * Country: China
>>>>
>>>> Please click on the links above to find more information about me.
>>>>
>>>> /Who are you? What’s the focus of your studies? What makes you the best
>>>> person to work on this project?/
>>>>
>>>> * I’m a graduate student studying in Hangzhou Normal university, and
>>>> graduated from Qiongzhou university in China.
>>>> * I’m a front-end developer with more than one-year working
>>>> experience. But now I am interested in the Data Visualization and
>>>> already made several visualization projects of network structure.
>>>> Some demos using D3 are listed on my GitHub, I can send you more
>>>> code fragments if you need.
>>>> * I use JS and a few Python ordinarily. I’ve used the main trend
>>>> frameworks like Vue, React and Angular1.x, and recently I usually
>>>> use D3 to do a visualization work.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Experiences in Free Open Source Software
>>>>
>>>> /What free and/or open source projects have you participated in? Please
>>>> describe your contributions, provide us links to your features and
>>>> commits./
>>>>
>>>> If you go to https://opensourcecontributo.rs/user/geekplux, you can see
>>>> my most contributions on GitHub which focused on Front-End and used
>>>> JavaScript. Some contribution like
>>>> https://github.com/CodeFalling/hexo-renderer-org/commits?author=geekplux
>>>> is not find in this page.
>>>
>>> If you want to improve the application text, you could mention the two
>>> most important projects you have done and why you think those two are
>>> important to you.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Project Proposal
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your previous letters, I’ve understood your goal.
>>>>
>>>> * Project Title: NetJSON-Vis
>>>> * Possible Mentor: Nemesis
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Description
>>>>
>>>> netjsongraph.js has attracted quite some interest from around the
>>>> world, but I couldn’t dedicate much time to it recently. It is also
>>>> lacking automated tests and a modern build process. Probably it
>>>> would be better to develop it using ES6 (which have some kind of
>>>> built-in templating feature) and transpile it with babel.js.
>>>>
>>>> Our goals should be the following:
>>>>
>>>> * make it faster with large numbers
>>>> * make it more mobile friendly
>>>> * use modern tools that are familiar to JS developers, so they can
>>>> contribute more easily
>>>> * add automated tests so we can be more confident of introducing
>>>> changes
>>>> * get rid of complex features
>>>> * make it easy to extend, so users can experiment and build their
>>>> own derivatives
>>>> * make it easy to redraw/update the graph as new data comes in, at
>>>> least at the library level we should support this
>>>>
>>>> I recommend to use the http://sigmajs.org/ . If the performance is
>>>> bottleneck, We can use canvas or WebGL directly to draw a graph.
>>>
>>> Sounds good.
>>>
>>> Did you mention anything about an optional geographic map?
>>>
>>>> Tasks and Schedule
>>>>
>>>> * initial work: (create a new repo?) build a project with yarn,
>>>> Webpack and Babel. /1~2 days/
>>>> * draw a demo graph using canvas or WebGL. /1 week/
>>>> * make a example page to show visualization results. /1~2days/
>>>> * add test(using Ava and XO) and CI. /1~2days/
>>>> * discuss and design visualization view /1 week/
>>>> * visualization implemention. /6 weeks/
>>>> * beautify the visualization. /1 weeks/
>>>> * publish to npm. /1 day/
>>>> * improve visualization and test. /2 weeks/
>>>> * design interface for plugin /1 week/
>>>>
>>>> My estimate of time is not accurate and it might be a bit short.
>>>
>>> I understand.
>>>
>>>> I think our implemention is data-driven, so we should design a data
>>>> store for graph generation. When the data store update, the graph will
>>>> update, too.
>>>
>>> Good point, but we want this library to be agnostic in respect to the
>>> datastore. So we should probably allow it to receive input data in the
>>> following ways:
>>>
>>> * pass a json object directly
>>> * pass a URL
>>>
>>> To redraw the graph, we could simply design a redraw mechanism (eg a
>>> method or a function) if possible, so this method can be called by third
>>> party apps that will use the library.
>>>
>>>> My Availability
>>>>
>>>> * /school-related activities/
>>>>
>>>> Yes. Maybe I should write some code to assist the Phd students to
>>>> complete their paper. But I don’t have a full- or part-time job or
>>>> internship planned for this summer. Because to go to find a
>>>> visualization job is difficult :)
>>>>
>>>> I might have at least 20 hours every week.
>>>
>>> 20 hours is not enough. The official GSOC FAQs state:
>>>
>>> How much time does GSoC participation take?
>>>
>>> You are expected to spend around 30+ hours a week working on your
>>> project during the 3 month coding period. If you already have an
>>> internship, another summer job, or plan to be gone on vacation for more
>>> than a week during that time, GSoC is not the right program for you this
>>> year.
>>>
>>> --------
>>>
>>> We need students that will work on this project as a kind of full time
>>> job. If it goes well I will make sure to find more collaboration
>>> opportunities for the future, but I'm looking for talented people like
>>> you that also want to put in enough amount of hours and dedication to
>>> make this idea successful.
>>>
>>>> After GSoC
>>>>
>>>> /Do you have plans to continue with your project within the freifunk
>>>> community after GSoC?/
>>>>
>>>> It sounds great, I’m love to post a PR, so It’s exciting for me to be a
>>>> long-time maintainer for NetJSON.
>>>
>>> Maybe you intended to write "I would love to post a PR"?
>>>
>>>> Thanks again.
>>>>
>>>> Xiang
>>>
>>> Let us know what you think about the comments I left in this reply.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>> Federico
>>>
>>
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