Re: Work with ~JSON-LD~ and GSoC 2013

hi Everyone,

I have submitted my proposal
here<https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/update/google/gsoc2013/vikashagrawal/62002>
 [
https://googlemelange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/update/google/gsoc2013/vikashagrawal/62002
]

It will be very considerate of everyone, if you take out some time and
guide me over this and help it improvise :)

Regards
~Vikash


On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 11:46 PM, vikash agrawal <
vikashagrawal1990@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am Vikash Agrawal. Currently I am at a very early stage for contributing
> to JSON-LD and W3C.
>
> Recently I was going through the GSoC orgs/ideas and fortunately I found
> an idea which I firmly believe is aligned with my skill-sets :)
>
> Certainly, there is a scope for great learning too :)
>
> Post that, I have been active in communications with Manu over IRC
> #json-ld and I have written my draft for the proposal that I plan to submit
> very soon. Manu Sir, has asked me to share the proposal publicly so that I
> can receive constructive criticism and iterate it to a better one.
>
> I would love to extend my sincere gratitude for helping me and guiding me
> on long journey.
>
> You can find my proposal here:
>
>    - .txt. ->
>    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5278881/GSoC/Proposal.txt
>    - .html ->
>    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5278881/GSoC/Proposal.html
>
> -------------------------------------- BEGIN PROPOSAL --------------------------------------
>
>
> Author: Vikash Agrawal <vikashagrawal1990@gmail.com>
>
>
> Table of Contents
> =================
> 1 Personal Details
> 2 Project Description
>     2.1 Abstract
>     2.2 Description
>     2.3 What have you done so far with this idea
>     2.4 Anticipated challenges
>     2.5 Potential mentors
> 3 Schedule Of Deliverables
> 4 Open Source Development Experience
> 5 Work Experience
> 6 Academic Experience
>     6.1 Academic Institution
>     6.2 Current Program
>     6.3 Anticipated Graduation
>     6.4 GSoC for Credit
>     6.5 References
> 7 Why W3C
>     7.1 You're applying to work with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) during GSoC because
>     7.2 After GSoC, you envision your involvement with W3C will be:
>
>
> 1 Personal Details
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>   "attr"            "value"
>  -----------------+----------------------------------------
>   Name              Vikash Agrawal
>   Email             vikashagrawal1990@gmail.com
>   SkypeId           vikashagrawal1990
>   IRC nick          vikash
>   Github            [http://github.com/ivikash]
>   Twitter           [http://twitter.com/iam\_vikash]
>   Phone             +91-9999 013 553
>   College           Manipal Institute Of Technology, India
>   Years Completed   3 Yrs Completed, 4th Year [Running]
>
>
>   [http://twitter.com/iam\_vikash]: http://twitter.com/iam_vikash
>
> 2 Project Description
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> 2.1 Abstract
> =============
>    Linked Data describes a method of publishing structured which
>    can be interlinked and makes data more useful.These are not
>    intended to serve web pages rather they are used to share information between
>    computers so that they can read and interpret easily. RDF,
>    designed as meta data model is and has been used for Linking
>    Data. One of the profound examples of its use can be seen in Facebook's
>    Open Graph. The aim of my project is to conclude the final stages
>    of JSON-LD [JSON - Linked - Data] [based upon JSON, as the name
>    suggests] by making Schema's, Context, Applications that show
>    JSON to JSON-LD conversions etc. JSON-LD is a light weight JSON-Linked
>    Data that provides context to a data.
>
>
> 2.2 Description
> ================
>    JSON-LD is at the final stage of standardization and is being
>    actively developed at W3C. During GSoC I would do a wide-range of
>    development not only over JSON-LD implementations but also for
>    [http://www.json-ld.org] which will include UI/UX, a responsive
>    design for the website, along with
>    documentations, tutorials and yes! writing W3 specifications too.
>
>    The Deliveribles will be :-
>      1. A new and revamped website ([http://wwww.json-ld.org]) using Twitter Bootstrap. The new
>         [http://www.json-ld.org] will be more intituive and will extensively rely
>         upon the exisiting classes of Twitter Bootstrap. So far I
>         believe I wont have to fiddle around with the LESS files of
>         Bootstrap. So IMHO things will be prtetty easy.
>         Also, as per the source file, all the major files will are in
>         .html and a few in .PHP so integration wont be difficult at
>         all. Moreover, during the course of development I would be using
>         Dropbox to host the static websites, so that the changes can be
>         seen easily.
>      2. JSON-LD is based upon Context's described as per
>         [http://schema.org]. So next I would be writing all the
>         necessary Context's along with the help of Manu Sir (mentor). This phase
>         will be very useful for JSON-LD and applications relying upon
>         these (in-future). This will also be used for conversion of JSON to
>         JSON-LD. I believe these Contexts will find a good position in
>         the specification too.
>      3. Based on Context I plan to develop a JSON-LD creator for
>         People, Places, events. This app will be hosted at
>         [http://json-ld.org/creator]. This app will be majorly using
>         Javascript for conversion of JSON to JSON-LD at client
>         side. So far I believe a bit more of brainstorming has to be done on the
>         app. For example, how the input JSON is received. If its through a
>         <copy>-<paste> mechanism in text area then I believe there
>         wont be much of hurdle. But in-case its a full fledged-app to
>         get the json from an API, then there will be considerable
>         amount of work. So from GSoC perspective, I intend to keep it
>         a minimal one i.e a <copy> <paste> for JSON. So that the
>         fucntionality and conversion can be easily visualized.
>      4. Next I plan to develop a LinkedIN Application using the
>         Javascript API, which will be hosted at
>         [http://json-ld.org/linkedin] to demonstrate the conversion of
>         JSON to JSON-LD. For using the Javascript-api, I might have
>         require commit rights of the site else I will have to register
>         an applicaiton and work from localhost.
>      5. By now, I expect to have a fair idea of working with JSON-LD,
>         so I will do documentations where-ever necesary and write
>         code-samples, examples and tutorial :)
>      6. Revamping of  [http://json-ld.org/playground/] to end up looking
>         like this: [http://rdfa.info/play/] will be my next hack. As
>         discussed the d3.js tree part at the bottom will be a brownie
>         but I would love to try that as well.
>
>
> 2.3 What have you done so far with this idea
> =============================================
>     1. So far I am reading the specification
>        [http://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/]
>     2. Trying out LinkedIn Javascript API and have registered an app
>        on LinkedIn with the name of JSON-LD
>     3. Understanding more of JSON-LD
>     4. I plan to do a bit of revamping of the [http://www.json-ld.org]
>        before the Google Summer of Code, 2013 begins
>
> 2.4 Anticipated challenges
> ===========================
>     1. Understanding Context's and writing them as per
>        [http://schema.org]
>     2. LinkedIn API
>     3. Conversion of JSON to JSON-LD.
>     4. Writing a W3C specification.
>
> 2.5 Potential mentors
> ======================
> Manu Sporny
>
> 3 Schedule Of Deliverables
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>   Week Number   Task
>  -------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>             1   UI/UX and revamping of [http://json-ld.org] using Twitter Bootstrap
>             2   Finalizing the new Website and starting to understand the Context
>             3   Understanding Context's and writing Contexts as per [http://schema.org]
>             4   `===Writing Context's might continue==='
>             8   Once Context's are over I will start working with JSON-LD creator
>             9   `===JSON-LD creator work continues==='
>             5   Starting to work with LinkedIN API and working on JSON
>             6   Conversion of JSON results from LinkedIn API to JSON-LD
>             7   `===JSON to JSON-LD from LinkedIN might continue.==='
>            10   Write Documentation and code-samples
>            11   Writing Tutorials
>            12   Revamping [http://json-ld.org/playground/] on the lines of  [http://rdfa.info/play/]
>
> NOTE :
> 1. Time-Line is subject to change during the actual development
> process. Some tasks will have an early completion whereas others can
> take more than expected.
>
> 2. There will be small brownie tasks like d3.js and few more so I
>    would also try to accomplish that as well during GSoC.
>
> 4 Open Source Development Experience
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> I am FOSS enthusiast and I love contributing to Open-Source
> projects. I am an active member of Linux Users Group, Manipal.
> I manage and regularly attend activities held by Google Developers
> Group.Being a Mozilla Rep I activly contribute to Mozilla and was sponsored and invited to MozCamp
> Asia held at Singapore by Mozilla in Nov 2012. I have also organized
> and took around 10-12 workshops/sessions in various colleges and events. I was also
> selected as a speaker for this year POSSCON. But unfortunately I wasnt
> able to deliver my talk.
> I love and firmly believe in sharing of knowledge :-)
>
> 5 Work Experience
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Foremost, I have a hands-on experience on all the technologies that
> I believe will be involved during the course of development.
>
> This will be my third GSoC participation.
>   Year   Org       Proposal Link
>  ------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   2011   X.org     [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/vikashagrawal/1]
>   2012   Mozilla   [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/vikashagrawal/30002]
>
> Last year under Mozilla I was under the MDN team for writing
> code-samples and examples in HTML5 and CSS3
> [https://github.com/ivikash/Examples-for-the-web]. One of the major task
> from the project was to read an understand major tags from W3
> specification. So I do have an experience on the same too. Moreover I
> have escalated my skills in HTML5 and CSS3 since then. Being the last
> semester of my college, I was doing an internship at iDubba, where I
> did quite a good amount of Front-End Development. As a result I have
> good experience in Javascript. I have also worked on JS from server side
> perspective (Node.js) as a reslut my skill-sets in JS has also
> escalated. With respect to Twitter Bootstrap, I have a profound
> experience in it as I have been using it extensively for the last 4
> months.
> 1. [https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5278881/iDubba/Charts/Login.html]
> 2. [https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5278881/iDubba/Charts/Analytics.html]
> 3. [https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5278881/iDubba/Charts/Analytics2.html]
>
> 6 Academic Experience
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> 6.1 Academic Institution
> =========================
> Manipal Institute Of Technology,
> Manipal,
> Karnataka,
> India - 576104
>
> 6.2 Current Program
> ====================
> B.E in Information and Communication Technology
>
> 6.3 Anticipated Graduation
> ===========================
> Year - 2013
>
> 6.4 GSoC for Credit
> ====================
> NO
>
> 6.5 References
> ===============
> 1. Jean-Yves Perrier <jperrier@mozilla.com>
> 2. Akshay KC <akshaykodapala@gmail.com>
> 3. Sanjay Singh <sanjay.singh@manipal.edu>
>
> 7 Why W3C
> ~~~~~~~~~~
>
> 7.1 You're applying to work with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) during GSoC because
> =========================================================================================
> For me W3C is the godfather of the web!
> 1. I wanted to learn the art of writing specifications and
>    contributing to it from a long time, so this will give me an
>    oppurtunity to do the same.
> 2. This projects will be a great learning experience for me.
> 3. An oppurtunity to meet Sir Tim Berners Lee and atleast have one common
>    topic of discussion too :-)
> 4. Wish for vikash@w3.org
> 5. As my mentor pointed out, I may get an invitation to
>    standards-making group which will be an added incentive.
>
> 7.2 After GSoC, you envision your involvement with W3C will be:
> ================================================================
> POST GSoC I will keep my contributions to W3C coming.
> "Once Started, the flame wont go"
>
>
> -------------------------------------- END PROPOSAL --------------------------------------
>
>
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