Interested to contribute to WINE via Outreachy

[Himadri Pandya]

Hello Everyone,

I'm Himadri, an undergraduate student from India pursuing my bachelors in
computer engineering. I'm a newbie to the FOSS community and keen to be a
part by contributing to some interesting project. And I guess starting the
journey with Outreachy would be the best !

Gsoc project : "Tools - Winetest Graphical User Interface" seems quite
interesting to me. I would love to be a part of it. It would be really
appreciable if I can get some replies about how can I contribute to it.

Regards
Himadri Pandya
Linked In : https://www.linkedin.com/in/himadri2117

[Himadri Pandya]

*Hello Again,*

I think I should introduce myself a little more in order to seek replies
form potential members who can guide me to work on the project of my
interest.

*A little about me :*

*Current Project*
        Developing a contextual application to facilitate the passengers at
crowded Indian Railway stations to provide a feasible software solution to
reduce the troubles of passengers which includes unorganized queues,
frequently delayed trains, difficulty to locate railway resources and much
more. The application is targeted for android platform and uses bluetooth
low energy signals emitted from beacons for context awareness.

*Academia*
High school with science courses : Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.

Some majors during graduation course :

- Linear algebra, Calculus, Discrete Mathematics and Probability
   - Functional and Object oriented programming [C, C++, JAVA, Python]
   - Data structures and Algorithms
   - Operating Systems [Windows and Linux] and System Programming
   - Theory of Computation and Compiler Design
   - Digital Logic and Computer organization & architecture
   - Computer networks and Web Technologies [Javascript, HTML, CSS, PHP]
   - Software Engineering Fundamentals
   - Data Mining and Business Intelligence Fundamentals
   - Database management systems [MySQL, Oracle]

*Hobbies*

- Playing Guitar (exploring the Indian Classical music)
   - Practicing Karate (practicing since last 9 years and having a black
   belt)
   - Reading
   - Traveling

*Linked In profile*

https://www.linkedin.com/in/himadri2117

*IRC name* : Himadri
I am keen to start working on this project. But as being a newbie, I need
some initiative directives. May be making few initial contributions to WINE
is the starting point. I'm working on it.
I need to learn more about the project. It would be really appreciable if
you can suggest me some essential content to refer.

Seeking some interesting and supportive replies,

An enthusiastic learner,
Himadri

On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 12:13 AM, Himadri Pandya 
wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I'm Himadri, an undergraduate student from India pursuing my bachelors in
> computer engineering. I'm a newbie to the FOSS community and keen to be a
> part by contributing to some interesting project. And I guess starting the
> journey with Outreachy would be the best !
>
> Gsoc project : "Tools - Winetest Graphical User Interface" seems quite
> interesting to me. I would love to be a part of it. It would be really
> appreciable if I can get some replies about how can I contribute to it.
>
> Regards
> Himadri Pandya
> Linked In : https://www.linkedin.com/in/himadri2117

[Aaryaman Vasishta]

Hi,

Welcome to the wine community!

To avoid a lot of redundancy in the response to this (as other students
have shown interest in this idea as well, and I'm also lazy) I'll redirect
you to a response given by one of the mentors to another student
https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2017-February/116482.html.

Feel free to idle on our IRC channel (the channel is #winehackers) and ask
any questions you have about the same. Good luck!

Cheers,
Aaryaman

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Himadri Pandya 
wrote:
> *Hello Again,*
>
> I think I should introduce myself a little more in order to seek replies
> form potential members who can guide me to work on the project of my
> interest.
>
> *A little about me :*
>
> *Current Project*
>         Developing a contextual application to facilitate the passengers
> at crowded Indian Railway stations to provide a feasible software solution
> to reduce the troubles of passengers which includes unorganized queues,
> frequently delayed trains, difficulty to locate railway resources and much
> more. The application is targeted for android platform and uses bluetooth
> low energy signals emitted from beacons for context awareness.
>
> *Academia*
> High school with science courses : Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.
>
> Some majors during graduation course :
> - Linear algebra, Calculus, Discrete Mathematics and Probability
> - Functional and Object oriented programming [C, C++, JAVA, Python]
> - Data structures and Algorithms
> - Operating Systems [Windows and Linux] and System Programming
> - Theory of Computation and Compiler Design
> - Digital Logic and Computer organization & architecture
> - Computer networks and Web Technologies [Javascript, HTML, CSS, PHP]
> - Software Engineering Fundamentals
> - Data Mining and Business Intelligence Fundamentals
> - Database management systems [MySQL, Oracle]
>
> *Hobbies*
> - Playing Guitar (exploring the Indian Classical music)
> - Practicing Karate (practicing since last 9 years and having a black
>
> belt)
> - Reading
> - Traveling
>
> *Linked In profile*
>       https://www.linkedin.com/in/himadri2117
>
> *IRC name* : Himadri
> I am keen to start working on this project. But as being a newbie, I need
> some initiative directives. May be making few initial contributions to WINE
> is the starting point. I'm working on it.
> I need to learn more about the project. It would be really appreciable if
> you can suggest me some essential content to refer.
>
> Seeking some interesting and supportive replies,
>
> An enthusiastic learner,
> Himadri
>
> On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 12:13 AM, Himadri Pandya 
> wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > I'm Himadri, an undergraduate student from India pursuing my bachelors in
> > computer engineering. I'm a newbie to the FOSS community and keen to be a
> > part by contributing to some interesting project. And I guess starting the
> > journey with Outreachy would be the best !
> >
> > Gsoc project : "Tools - Winetest Graphical User Interface" seems quite
> > interesting to me. I would love to be a part of it. It would be really
> > appreciable if I can get some replies about how can I contribute to it.
> >
> > Regards
> > Himadri Pandya
> > Linked In : https://www.linkedin.com/in/himadri2117

[Austin English]

On Mar 5, 2017 4:51 AM, "Himadri Pandya"  wrote:

Hello Everyone,

I'm Himadri, an undergraduate student from India pursuing my bachelors in
computer engineering. I'm a newbie to the FOSS community and keen to be a
part by contributing to some interesting project. And I guess starting the
journey with Outreachy would be the best !

Gsoc project : "Tools - Winetest Graphical User Interface" seems quite
interesting to me. I would love to be a part of it. It would be really
appreciable if I can get some replies about how can I contribute to it.

Regards
Himadri Pandya
Linked In : https://www.linkedin.com/in/himadri2117

Hi Himardi,

As a first step, have you tried running winetest, on either wine or windows?

We'd like to hear your ideas on how you'd like to improve it. What UI
changes would you find helpful, as someone (presumably) unfamiliar with it?

As Aaryaman mentioned, idling on #winehackers and asking questions would be
advisable and likely get you faster answers than email ;).

Good luck! And don't hesitate to reach out if you have more questions.