User:Chughakshay16/GSOCProposal(2012)

This proposal page contains the details of the extension that I would like to build as part of a GSOC-2012 project.

Identity

 * Name
 * Akshay Chugh


 * Email
 * chughakshay16@gmail.com


 * Project Title
 * ConventionExtension - an extension to convert a wiki into a conference management system

Contact/working info

 * Timezone
 * Bangalore - India(UTC/GMT +5:30 hours)


 * Typical Working hours

About You
I am pursuing Masters of Science in Chemistry and Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Instrumentation from Bits Pilani(India). Currently I am in 5th(final) year and working as an Intern for a software company in Bangalore. It wasn't very long ago(may be in my 2nd year) when I got into writing codes just to see something render on my browser. But later when these pretty things on my browser didnt excite me anymore, I got more interested in writing server side code. Most of what all I have written till date is in Java and Javascript/Actionscript(jQuery) except for the couple of patches and a mediawiki extension which I wrote in PHP. The idea of making things simple, even simpler than they already are has always caught my attention. Most of the people around us are not familiar with coding stuff that goes into making a software, all they are concerned with is the end result. So unless and until the user experience the software offers is easy enough for them to understand and use ,there is no point in developing such a software in the first place. This is the main reason I want to develop this extension so that people wanting to set up a conference should easily be able to do so with having a free open source option available within Mediawiki at their disposal. Even though other open source options available out there would do just the same, but having the potential of a traditional wiki with a conference management system feature would prove more fruitful.