Hello All, I am Shayon Mukherjee and I go by Sj. I am an ex-openSUSE member. I haven't been able to contribute to openSUSE for quite a long time. But I use to, to the Wiki and the marketing team. To be honest, I just got busy with school work.But that didn't stop me from spreading the word. I have actively been promoting openSUSE to my peers. Moving on to GSOC 2012. I am really interested in contributing and working towards the openSUSE's GSOC 2012 Idea - End user oriented web interface . Reasons and about me are as follows Age - 19 School - University of Wisconsin Green Bay Majors - B.S Computer Science Minors - Information Science Year - Sophomore (2nd year) Expected year of graduation - 2014 Languages and Frameworks I know - Java, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, SQLite, Jquery, HTLM5 and CSS3. Also have the ability and passion to learn new things. On-going project with Ruby on Rails - Designing a Real time wiki application as a part of my personal project, independent study / research project, using Ruby on Rails. Experience - Student technology assistant at the Learning Technology Center of University of Wisconsin Green Bay (October 2010 - Present) Open Source projects I have worked with - openSUSE, Ubuntu and Mozilla student reps Why i want to work on this - Firstly, I am a big open source enthusiast. That being said,I highly support the idea behind Open Source and free knowledge. My journey of Open Source started with openSUSE at the age of 17 where I created portals in the wiki, helped managing articles in the openSUSE wiki,writing templates and giving presentations in schools and colleges in my town (India). For a short while I also fixed bugs in Ubuntu and became a Bug Squad team member (ex right now). Moving on to rails, as a part of my job as Student Technology Assistant at University of Wisconsin Green Bay I maintain the Rails application, update the databases, implement new features as and when required. Also currently in 2nd year of school I have taken up the research work where I am designing a Real time Wiki application. At this point, I can say I have a good understanding of Ruby and Ruby on rails. I can create industrial based application right from scratch. And I am really confident that If given the opportunity then I can very much accomplish the goal behind the openSUSE's GSOC 2012 Idea - End user oriented web interface. And also I think this is a great way for me to get back into the community and make some substantial contribution to openSUSE, as I always wanted to do so. Looking forward to hear form the mentor(s) and anybody else who wants to know more have questions or share something. Till then, Cheers, Shayon Mukherjee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org