The pre-GSoC journey
Greetings! It was the 4th of May, and the results were to be announced at 11:30 pm (IST). I was sitting with my fingers crossed, trying to do some work, but my eyeballs were rolling back again and again to the clock to confirm the time ........ PRE-GSoC PERIOD Oh! Sorry for the change in the paragraph, but let me first take you to my pre-GSoC period to give you a complete insight. I was pretty excited to take part in GSoC just after the completion of my first year. Till then, I was involved in Android and Web development and had worked upon a few projects, and being a developer, Git and Github were in my daily use. I must say this first, that if you want to be an open-source developer, Git and GitHub are something which you must get familiar with at the very beginning. So I got familiar with a few programming languages by that time, and also with JSON and XML, which are the major data exchange format on the web (JSON mainly). During this one year, I was really impressed by the...