/gsoc/Recent content in Gsoc on Devops DiaryHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 14 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000/gsoc/gsoc-result/Thu, 14 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000/gsoc/gsoc-result/After a long, long wait, the results of Google Summer of Code were finally announced. And to my utmost elation, I passed the final evaluation! In fact all the 7 students that worked with DBpedia passed their evaluation and all our efforts have finally paid off! This officially concludes this years GSoC, and it was an exceptional experience working on it. I got to meet so many developers and community members from different fields and places and it was fun collaborating with everyone./gsoc/gsoc-summary/Mon, 28 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000/gsoc/gsoc-summary/This blog post is going to be an “informal” summary of my work over the past 3-4 months, with excerpts from the official report. For the official, more “formal” and “technically articulated” report, refer the following links: The detailed final progress report of my work and contributions during GSoC'17 can be found here. GSoC'17 Final results and challenges available here. The List-Extractor can be found here./gsoc/gsoc-week-9-12/Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000/gsoc/gsoc-week-9-12/The last few weeks have been really intense and I wasn’t able to finish the weekly blogs. I did pass my second evaluation, and recieved some feedback on the work I’ve been doing. This was going to be the final phase of my project, and I still had a lot to do. I didnt get much time to finish the blogs with university resuming after the summer break, so I decided to compile all of it into one post./gsoc/gsoc-week-7-8/Fri, 28 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000/gsoc/gsoc-week-7-8/Okay, It has been some time since I last posted an update on my project. The last 2 weeks have probably been the busiest of my life, working on my GSoC project, last minute preparation for the upcoming campus placement drive and of course, the exams and interviews of various companies. It was a long, lifeless, sleep deprived, caffeine ridden mindf*ck of an experience, and the most intense time I’ve ever been through all my life./gsoc/gsoc-week-5-6/Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000/gsoc/gsoc-week-5-6/So, the results of the first evaluations were out last week, and thankfully, I passed the evaluation with flying colors. My mentors seemed happy with my work so far and asked me to keep it up! So, its back to business. So in Week 5, my job was to create a tool that could create mapping rules and mapper functions as per the user’s demands. This would be something completely opposite to what I’ve been doing all month, as it’ll generalize all the work for future domains instead of me (or any other developer) writing specialized rules for each domain./gsoc/gsoc-week-4/Thu, 29 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000/gsoc/gsoc-week-4/Last Sunday marked the end of the 4th week of my 3-month long Summer of code project. Another significant corollary from that is, this was the final week before the first evaluations that take place this week. I’ve done what I could’ve and now my fate lies in the hands of my mentors… Anyway, continuing from last week, this week too, I continued with adding new domains for the list-extractor./gsoc/gsoc-week-3/Sat, 24 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000/gsoc/gsoc-week-3/Time is passing by ever so quickly and things are starting to get real intense. Although it has only been three weeks, it feels like I’m a veteran developer now (professional developers everywhere cringed :P). Anyways, here’s the progress report from my third week. These next few weeks, my focus would majorly be on expanding the scope of extractor, adding few common domains and working on making it more scalable to handle previously unseen lists with existing rules./gsoc/gsoc-week-2/Fri, 16 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000/gsoc/gsoc-week-2/The second week has flown by, and now it’s time for the second week’s progress report. The primary tasks for the second week was to add support for Spanish and German for the existing Writer and Actor domain, along with integrating the MusicalArtist domain that was part of my warmup task. So, I started off with adding the MusicalArtist domain to my current codebase. It was fairly straightforward (for the most part) and it worked like a charm./gsoc/gsoc-week-1/Mon, 05 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000/gsoc/gsoc-week-1/With the first week now past us, it’s time for the first week’s progress report. First week was mainly about checking the existing code for potential improvements. So, this week, I went over the existing code and made slight tweaks to them. I added the __init__ module and docstring. I also worked on improving the method that was used to create the resource dictionary, and which extracted triples and stored them, to get rid of the junk values that were observed during extraction./gsoc/about-list-extractor/Wed, 31 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000/gsoc/about-list-extractor/Okay, so today I’ll be writing a brief summary of what my project is all about. As the name itself suggests… It extracts data from Wikipedia lists. Now hold on…. Isn’t that a simple task? That’s something a noob can do by writing a simple script that scrapes data off the Wikipedia pages. What’s so special about your project, huh? It’s slightly more subtle than that. It’s not all about just scraping the data and dumping it./gsoc/about-dbpedia/Sun, 21 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000/gsoc/about-dbpedia/With Community Bonding going on in its full swing, let me tell you something about the organization I’m contributing to, i.e. DBpedia. Since they already have a fantastic summary about the organisation on their page, I’m going to summarize (more like quote) the summary they have already provided. (Yes, I’m very lazy :P) DBpedia is a crowd-sourced community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and make this information available on the Web./gsoc/getting-selected/Tue, 16 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000/gsoc/getting-selected/Okay, so as I posted last week, I’ve been selected for the Google Summer of code program for the year 2017, and I’ll be working with DBpedia. As an integral part of my project, I’ll have to record my progress on my project every week, and so, I’ll be posting all my GSoC related posts under the GSoC tag. Okay, so how did this journey start? I guess it started back in December last year, when I was at home spending time with my family during the winter vacations./gsoc/google-summer-of-code/Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000/gsoc/google-summer-of-code/Wow, it has been more than a year (see: eternity) since I last wrote a blog post. I guess this was one of those things that just fade away with time. To be honest, it was more about the lack of time than anything else. University life has been busier than I expected. I completed the 5th semester of my undergraduate studies by the end of 2016, and I was yet to do anything that would “validate” my existence as a “Computer Engineer”.