Thats nice. We will be happy to help guide as much as we can, but I also keep exploring other options so if you realize this might be a tough road for you, you will have backups.
Suresh On Apr 19, 2013, at 7:46 AM, Damith Senanayake <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Suresh, > > I will give it a try as you have mentioned and see. I understood after > going through the discussions that it seems to be challenging work for a > beginner. But I am willing to give it a try. > > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Damith, >> >> The JIRA only mentioned FLEX to indicate there are other implementations. >> But XBaya is currently in Java and this task is to change it to java script >> based. >> >> Frankly, this year Airavata GSoC projects will be very tough on beginners, >> since we are expecting lot of co-ordination among all projects and also it >> takes lot of diving into the code and understand what is happening. I would >> encourage you to engage with the mailing list and learn through, but I >> would advice to pick a smaller project to start with for this year. >> Unfortunately all projects in Airavata this year have high barrier to entry. >> >> Suresh >> >> On Apr 18, 2013, at 11:22 PM, Damith Senanayake <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I am a first time participant for GSoC this year and am interested in >>> working with the Airavata project. I am currently getting familiar with >>> Airavata and XBaya and I noticed a proposal to create a web-based user >>> interface replacing/in-addition-to XBaya in this link: >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRAVATA-798. >>> >>> While I understand it is a large project (or several projects as far as >>> GSoC is concerned) I would like to contribute to this development. >>> >>> I am currently an undergraduate in University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka- >>> Department of Computer Science and Engineering. I have had experience >> with >>> Web Development in PHP, DartLang and also several CMSs. Although, I must >>> say that I am a complete novice to FLEX which is used to develop XBaya. >> And >>> I would like to learn as I go. >>> >>> Could you please help me to get started with it, and point me in the >> right >>> direction, as I am a beginner? >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> -- >>> -Damith Senanayake- >> >> > > > -- > -Damith Senanayake-
