User:YuviPanda

INCOMPLETE! And will probably completely change. Bewarned!

Identity
Name: Yuvaraj Pandian

Handle: YuviPanda

Working Info
Time zone: UTC+0530

About Me
I'm Yuvi, a 20 year old programmer from Chennai, India. I'm part of the dev team maintaining http://busroutes.in, a crowdsourced public transportation information site. Currently I'm working on wikifying it (http://wiki.busroutes.in) using semantic mediawiki. I was also a Google Summer of Code Student last year (2010), working with GNOME on Cheese (http://live.gnome.org/Cheese). I hack on Python, C, Vala & C# whenever I get the chance, and used to do statistical analysis in a previous life.

Contact
IRC: yuvipanda on freenode, oftc and gimpnet

Email: yuvipanda@gmail.com

Community Bonding Period

 * Familiarize myself more with the codebase and the current community workflow
 * Read through and understand the scripts that currently run WMF dumps. Cleanup a bit if possible/necessary.
 * Land a few patches (more profiling!) in trunk, passing CR successfully.
 * Crack jokes on IRC at appropriate times.

Participation
I'm reasonably chatty, and don't hesitate to consistently bug people. I like working in long uninterrupted blocks in the night - which makes me active at around the same time as most other people on #mediawiki. Ideally I would work via a git repo in github/private-server that is constantly updated to match trunk, but I don't mind working on a branch in svn - or even just a patch based workflow. I'll blog regularly about my progress, for documentation and flaunting :) Ideally, I'd like to get my changes deployed in the WMF servers before next summer.

Past open source experience
I was a Google Summer of Code participant last year, working on Cheese (part of GNOME). I also contribute to PiTiVi, a Linux Video Editor. I maintain Busroutes.in, a open source, open data, crowd-sourced website for collecting/displaying local transportation information. I write code whenever I can and release those that could even remotely be useful to anyone else under a BSD License on GitHub. I've helped out at several open source workshops, and given talks. I run tawp.inI, a shorturl site for the Tamil Wikipedia. I also wrote a mediawiki plugin for Extension:ShortUrl, which makes the shorturl originate from the same domain as the wiki. I've also worked on forward porting a performance patch for mediawiki(see 5303).

Any other info
Architechural diagrams to come here