Hi,
I will be working with
Ravi Madduri as my mentor, to create a browser-based user interface for
gRavi. [
GSOC page,
detailed project description]
My name is Marcus, and I'm a CS theory student, but have a much greater appreciation for concrete implementation and coding than theoretical stuff. The last 2 years I've spent much of my spare time learning the myriad of tech's that make up good web programming: xhtml, css, javascript etc for the server side, and java, ruby on rails, mysql, comet etc on the server side (and been appropriately damaged - my programming language of preference is javascript).
I'm also from Sweden (we've got two! :), but spend most of my time in the US. I've got my own blog at
http://feeds.feedburner.com/MarcusWestin, where I cover mostly javascript, OS X and random tech news of interest.
It's exhilarating to be part of the team! I'm looking forward to get to know everyone better, and to create something good over the summer.