<div class="gmail_quote"> Hello Freifunk team,<br><br> I am graduate student, pursuing my masters in Computer Science in NCSU, Raleigh,USA.<br> I came across your project idea page and am very much interested in learning and contributing towards OLSR routing protocol.<br>
I came to know GSOC little late, so i would agree my application template isn't complete but I would be working on it in coming weeks and<br> and would like to work with Freifunk community this summer.<br><br> Please let me like what else i need to do because i am still not sure of the process like selecting the Mentors.<br>
Thanks and looking forward for the response.I am attaching the template and resume and cover letter.<br><br> -Thanks,<br> Narahari<br><br> <b> Application Template:</b><br>
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<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Name : Narahari Shettyhalli Shankaranarayana</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Email : <a href="mailto:hari.sjce@gmail.com" target="_blank">hari.sjce@gmail.com</a></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Blog : // I don’t blog.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">IRC Nick and Network : <a href="mailto:hari.sjce@gmail.com" target="_blank">hari.sjce@gmail.com</a></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Name of School/University, Grade:</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">North
Carolina State<span> </span>University. Masters in
Computer Science/Networking.</span></p>
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3/4. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> 1.</span> <a href="http://wiki.freifunk.net/Ideas#port_OLSR_to_Windows_with_IPv6_support" target="_blank"><span><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;">port OLSR to Windows with IPv6 support</span></span></a>.<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></li>
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</span></span></span><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.<span> </span>new routing metrics for OLSR </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span>Possible Mentor (optional) </span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Benefits to the Free Software Community, who would gain
from your project? <br></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> I would like to bringing in the new features of OLSR and want to integrate within the Windows Networking stack, i hope this task involves making changes to NDIS, which is my area of interest. As of now, I myself am seeing as the beneficiary which helps me learn and contribute and also very confident like porting this to windows would help in larger acceptance of users.<br>
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Deliverable - It is very important to list
quantifiable results here e.g. <br></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Project Details - more detailed
description. </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Project Schedule - How
long will the project take? When
can you begin work? </span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">- Design Document on porting the OLSR to windows.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">- Code and code documentation with all the test cases with necessary deliverable like INF files and build scripts for installation of any new drivers.<br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I need to
figure this out with my mentor and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> will be drafting the schedule and project
details and project as soon as possible and will share the same.</span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Availability - How many hours per week can you spend
working on this? What other obligations do you have this summer? </span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I would
available <b>40 hours per week</b> during
this summer:</span></p>
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from 2 week of May to 1 week of September.</span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">How do you plan to continue with your project and
within the freifunk community after GSoC? </span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Yes I would
be committed and would assure that I would work in the project until the
objective is achieved and would be happy explore more opportunities within
Freifunk community.</span></p>
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makes you the best person to work on this project? What free and/or open
source projects have you participated in? Please describe your
contributions. </span></li></ul>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I am Narahari and I believe<span> </span>every man should utilize and<span> </span>adopt <span> </span>the
technology available to solve or ease the things which consumes time and
energy. I am from a small town <span></span>called
Shimoga in Southern part of India. I have done my Bachelors in Engineering in
computer science from SJCE, Mysore. I worked for Mindtree for three years,
R&D division as part of windows platform group in Strategic Technology Group.
I developed C,C++ code and also was<span>
</span>developed filter drivers for storage framework, and NDIS IM driver for
WAN optimization product and<span> </span>changes in
USB-RS232 endpoint driver for serial communication protocol application
component which was part of HVAC systems.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Currently pursuing<span> </span>my masters degree in Computer Science at
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA. </span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I want<span> </span>to get engaged in challenging work and
utilize my time in the summer vacation and want enhance my problem solving and
technical skills sets. <span> </span>I want to
contribute and learn new technologies during this summer. If I wouldn’t get any
positive response from GSOC, I am planning to work under professor in coming up
white papers on my area of Interest.</span></p>
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