User:Ashishm

Identity
Name: Ashish Mukherjee

Email: ashish.mukherjee@gmail.com

Project Title: Extend Maps and Semantic Maps extension, Add support for KML/GeoRSS, Integrate Thematic Mappings API, Add support for Google Earth API

Contact/ Working info
Timezone: +0530 GMT (IST)

Typical working hours: 1300-0200 (flexible)

IRC: ashishm

IM/XAMPP: ashish.mukherjee@gmail.com

YM: ashish_m_yh@yahoo.com

About me
I have 11 years experience designing and coding highly scalable back-end applications (including that of massive Websites). I am comfortable with coding in different languages (C++, perl, php, Java, Python) and equally comfortable doing sysadmin and performance management work. I also have wide experience managing and working on projects involving global teams across geographies.

Full resume at: http://wiw.org/~ashish/Ashish_Mukherjee.pdf

Project schedule
1 Week: Discussing and talking with the community

2-3 Weeks for extending with Google Maps API

2-3 Weeks for support with Google Earth API

2-3 Weeks for Thematic Mapping

1 Week for KML & GeoRSS support

1 Week for testing, documentation.

Participation
At the outset, the student shall discuss the boundaries of the assignment with the mentor and accordingly split it into logical tasks after a discussion of the high-level design. An Agile model will be followed for development with bi-weekly sprints. The student will reach out to the mentor by mail or IRC in the event of blockers else he shall communicate the status at the end of the sprin and share the codet. The mentor may review the work and provide comments.

Past open source experience

 * CPAN module – WWW::SlideShare
 * Enhanced the Python spell check tool of W3C Tools to recursively spell-check a site given a starting url.