Hi,

I am Pradeeban Kathiravelu, a final year graduate student of the Erasmus Mundus European Master in Distributed Computing (EMDC) [1], a Master of Science double degree program from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Interest in GSoC 2014 as a student

I am interested in doing my Google Summer of Code 2014 with JBoss. I am interested on the projects JBoss AS quick starts "JBoss AS management, services and modules" and "Hibernate", posted on the GSoC ideas page. I will work further on these topics and come up with the detailed design and implementation proposals for the GSoC application, which will be open on the 10th of March. I am interested in these projects, as they offer me the chance to learn the software and research and build usecases and examples, and develop quick-starts based on them. These projects, in my opinion, will serve a large number of new users to JBoss Application Server. Apart from the quick starts development, I also like to create screencasts of the projects that I am involved with, which will further assist the users [2]. I Further information on myself follows in this email.

Academic Qualifications

I am currently doing my master thesis from INESC-ID, Lisbon [3] researching and developing a Distributed and Concurrent Cloud Simulator, using Hazelcast [4], CloudSim, and other projects. I also hold a Bachelor of the Science of Engineering (Hons) degree, majoring Computer Science & Engineering, with a first class from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. My goal is to become a researcher in the distributed computing domain. I am accepted to the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Distributed Computing (EMJD-DC) [5], and I will start my doctorate studies this year, immediately following my masters.

GSoC, as a student (2009 and 2010)..

I am highly interested in FOSS development. I am an active participant of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program since 2009. I was a student twice - in 2009 with AbiWord, a light weight word processor, and in 2010 with Open Grid Services Architecture Data Access and Integration  (OGSA-DAI), an innovative solution for distributed data access and management, mentored by OMII-UK. I keep an updated blog entries on my GSoC and other projects. Information on my GSoC 2009, on "Porting AbiWord for Windows to Unicode" and related AbiWord developments can be found at [6], and on my GSoC 2010 on "Alternative Presentation Layers for OGSA-DAI, using Apache CXF" and OGSA-DAI related posts at [7]. Both of these projects were successfully merged to the main trunk of AbiWord [8] and OGSA-DAI [9].

GSoC, as a mentor (2011, 2012, and 2013)..

I was a mentor for AbiWord since 2011, and have mentored two successful GSoC students in 2011 and 2012. I represented AbiWord in the Google Summer of Code mentor summit 2011 [10] and coordinated a session titled, "Community matters!!!111 [11]". I was also a mentor for Google Code-In with Haiku twice [12], in 2011 and 2012. As an open source evangelist, I have done several talks in Sri Lankan universities on the topics of open source, Google Summer of Code, and higher studies. As a mentor, I created a presentation for the students applying to AbiWord, which I also used as a base for my talks on GSoC [13].

Programming Experience

I primarily develop in Java since 2006 and also in C++. I am experienced in distributed computing, SOA Middleware web services, and cloud computing. Prior to my master studies, I worked in WSO2 [14], an open source SOA middleware company for 2 years in the cloud platform team as a software engineer. At WSO2, I was involved in developing the middleware platform, as well as the  customer support, which involves dealing with specific use cases. I have published papers in the domains of distributed computing and data mining during my undergraduate studies. My complete CV with further information and links to my projects and activities can be found at [15].

I am having a look at the existing quickstarts [16] and the other related links. However, the exact link on " Contributing a Quickstart - JBoss AS 7.1" [17] seems to be moved somewhere else. I was able to find the related links though. Could you please provide me with the link, if the exact page exists somewhere else?  

As I am based in Lisbon, my time zone is Western Europe Time (WET). I often log in to the #gsoc-jboss irc. I have also created an account in JBoss Community [18] and have joined the trailblazer group. Please let me know, should I provide you with more information.

Thank you.

Regards,
Pradeeban.

[1] http://www.kth.se/en/studies/master/em/emdc

[2] http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/2012/05/developing-bpel-processes-using-wso2.html

[3] http://www.inesc-id.pt/

[4] http://www.hazelcast.org/

[5] http://emjd-dc.eu/

[6] http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/search/label/AbiWord

[7] http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/search/label/OGSA-DAI

[8] http://svn.abisource.com/abiword/trunk/

[9] https://ogsa-dai.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ogsa-dai

[10] http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/2011/10/google-summer-of-code-mentor-summit.html

[11] http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/2011/10/community-matters111.html

[12] http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/2012/11/google-code-in-2012.html

[13] http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/2012/03/gsoc-2012.html

[14] http://wso2.com/

[15] https://www.dropbox.com/s/4e33a0w1ds7yjy9/CV_K.PRADEEBAN.pdf

[16] http://www.jboss.org/jdf/quickstarts/get-started/

[17] https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS71/Contributing+a+Quickstart

[18] https://community.jboss.org/people/pradeeban