Student Application Template

This is a suggestion for the kind of information we'll find useful from students in their submissions. Remember -- you're going to be committing to several months' work. The more information and planning you can provide up-front, the more we (and Google!) will have to go on when we're ranking your application. Do not forget adding your submission at SummerOfCode2016/StudentApplications

* I'm currently completing my final year of my B.Tech Computer Science degree at Govt. Model Engineering College.

* I have been an ardent supporter of Open Source and I'm a student ambassador for my district at the International Center for Free and Open Source Software, (www.icfoss.in), an institution of Govt. of Kerala

* I have experience in C, python, ?JavaScript and XMPP with regards to this particular project.

* I have contributed to open source projects before.

* I was selected as a student scholar to the prestigious Grace Hopper Celebrations India in December 2015

This is only a brief summary with the tasks I know I have to do. There might be slight variations in this plan according to the circumstance. Since the last of my exams get over on the 12th of May, I'm free to start from the 13th . All the goals described here are those modifications of issues for freeRTC taken from https://freertc.org/campaign2016/tags/

May 13 - May 26 : Creating a connection manager for reSIProcate for desktops

May 27 - Jun 06 : ITSP quick setup wizard for softphones on Linux

Jun 07 - Jun 10 : Fix repeated password prompts with Jitsi

Jun 11 - Jun 30 : ICE and TURN support for SIP (for WebRTC) with Jitsi

Jul 01 - Jul 05 : Integrate Internet telephony with other systems in the home or office

Jul 06 - Jul 13 : Telepathy based solutions for desktop messaging

Jul 14 - Jul 15 : Firefox plugins using tellify

Jul 16 - Aug 10 : Improving security with libjingle for WebRTC

Aug 11 - Aug 15 : Front user client with great UX for ease of use (using Qt)

Aug 16+ : Finishing up

*I have participated in a Lean In circle organised by GHCI student scholars where we shared our stories to motivate more people, especially girls into technology and overcoming our fears : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAXyVofsCuk

*I had an opportunity to interact with girls as a part of the IEEE Educational Outreach Program, on October 2nd, 13th and 14th at Prathyasha Bhavan Orphanage, Kochi

*I have been a volunteer with make a difference (MAD) an Indian NGO based in Bangalore and my project idea was inspired by trying to create a low cost and free open alternative to teach programming to novices which I tried to implement.