Contact Information
- Name: Kalpani Anuradha Welivita
- FAS Account: anuradhaw
- Fedora userpage: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Anuradhaw
- Email Address: anuradha.12@cse.mrt.ac.lk
- Blog URL: http://anuradhanotes.blogspot.com
- Freenode IRC Nick: AnuradhaW
Why Fedora?
I was motivated to work with the Fedora Project mainly because of my interest to join the Design Team of Fedora and work as a long-term contributor. As the work Fedora does in designing truely matches with my interest and passion towards designing and UX/UI, I look forwards in committing myself to the Fedora Project.
Furthermore I would like to get involved in FOSS development and open source my design ideas and work I do, while getting to know other designers involved in the Fedora project and learn new things by interacting with them. As The Fedora project is a large and diverse organization which is willing to give support to the new contributors who are willing to learn and do things I would like to join Fedora.
Past involvement with the Fedora project/other open source projects as a contributor
This is my first time in participating and getting involved in a FOSS related project.
Participation in the past GSoC programs
This is my first time in participating in GSoC.
Contributing/supporting the Fedora project after the GSoC 2014 program
I am very much willing to contribute and commit myself in supporting the Fedora project. I have developed my interest in the UX/UI and Human Computer Interaction related areas and hence would like to be a part of the Design Team of Fedora and work as a long-term contributor.
Why choose me
From my childhood I have developed a great passion towards Arts and Design related stuff. Even after being privileged to be selected to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, my passion towards designing never ended. I started looking for newer aspects related to design stuff related to Computer Science and found the fields UX/UI and Human Computer Interaction as fields that draws my interest.
I believe if we have passion towards something, we can make the maximum out of it. Hence I will be a developer with passion, commitment and with never ending thirst to dig deep and find the best solution.
And I'm interested in contributing towards FOSS because I have reaped many things out of FOSS which has helped me to learn a lot of new things related to my areas of interest and Computer Science. Therefore I need to be a part of the FOSS community and help the new people who are like me wanting to learn things new and give them support.
Also I am currently a 2nd year undergraduate in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa and I have been involved in programming since end of year 2011. I have experience in both Desktop applications as well as web development since I have been involved in a number of projects carried out in our university.
You can view my Skills and Abilities and the Projects I have done by visiting my user page at Fedora.
Project Proposal
Overview
Ask Fedora is a well known knowledge base to provide support for the Fedora users all over the world. It also a support forum where we can question things and answer as well.
As quoted from the Fedora GSoC project ideas page, "Over the years of its existence, AskFedora's popularity has increased and there are 11,000+ questions that have been asked on the website and has 12,500+ contributors as of today." This shows the popularity of Ask Fedora and with time it has reached to the point to have a complete UX and UI overhaul in order to provide a good user experience for the users.
Now the period where the programmers considered only the back end of the applications needs to be perfect is over. Currently numerous type of research activities are carried out in the fields of UX/UI and Human Computer Interaction to search means of providing better user experience. In such an era the need to provide a better user experience for Ask Fedora is critical.
Some drawbacks in the current interface design of Ask Fedora
Poor use of color schemes
Lack of consistency in the user authentication page with the other pages.
Lack of attractiveness
At the bottom of the footer the links to about, faq, help, privacy policy and give feedback gets unnoticed and hence never being used by the users.
What the project fulfills
The above mentioned problems will get solved and the users will be provided with a consistent and responsive interface to interact with Ask Fedora.
Ask Fedora will be attractive and will use a good color scheme which will make the user experience better.