Hello, Hoi, Hola, Namaste, Bonjour, Privyet!!

[Shrikrishna Holla]

This is blog by one of the participants....
http://lifeasiknowit-nik.blogspot.in/2012/04/pes-ayana-12-experience.html :)

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:

> On Monday 30 April 2012 Apr, Shrikrishna Holla wrote:
> > Hello everybody!
> >
> > My name is Shrikrishna Holla, a second year BE student in PES Institute
> of
> > Technology, Bangalore, India. I have been selected in GSoC for the
> > project "Adding
> > an Infinite Canvas / Wraparound mode for
> > Krita<
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/shrikrishna_holla/1#
> >".
> > This project would add two canvas modes. One, where the canvas will be
> made
> > infinite, so the user can paint textures of any size without stopping,
> and
> > secondly, a "Wraparound mode" for creating tileable textures where
> painting
> > strokes that go off the canvas, wrap over on the opposite side avoiding
> > texture seams along the edges.
> >
> > My mentors for this project would be Boudewijn and Dmitry Kazakov.
> >
> > I liked the project because of its innovativeness, its
> out-of-the-ordinary
> > nature, and its beauty (from a programmer's point of view). I really love
> > this community because of its vibrant nature, helpful members, and great
> > documentation (in the sources). Really looking forward to a great summer
> > and a wonderful future with you all! :)
>
> Welcome!
>
> > PS: My apologies for being so late in introducing myself. I was very busy
> > last week as I was one of the organizers for a technical event
> > "Ayana<http://ayana.pes.edu/>"
> > held in my college. We had tech talks by Indian open source contributors
> > and a 24-hour hackathon. During the hackathon, we had live interaction
> > sessions from Richard M Stallman, Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto (Ruby
> creator)
> > and a video message from Bruce Perens (OSI). It was a great success, and
> we
> > have since been receiving a lot of appreciation for conducting such a
> novel
> > event in an engineering college. (The event report will be uploaded on
> the
> > site shortly)
>
> That's great to hear! Any blogs we can read about the event?
>
> --
> Boudewijn Rempt
> http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl
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-- 
Regards,
Shrikrishna
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