All about Kute, an amazing project under scorelab

Kute is a real time travel tracker for Sri Lanka users, who are looking out for car pooling and track public transport. Its a convenient application to use for real time car pooling and track public transport for accurate timings.

After you login, you find the above two options for you to use. If you choose to private vehicles, you can either register your vehicle as shown in the following screens.

 

You will find the above flow to register your mobile number, vehicle name and share your route. So that it would help people who are travelling by the same way. Also you will find options to simply add existing routes which you have added previously, and find friends. 

Coming to the public vehicles, you will get an option to share your location for a particular publish transport say bus or train, and people who are following that particular vehicle can track on google map accurately and estimate the arrival or departure timings. It's a very good application to use for a busy working day. 

To contribute to this application, you can visit the github page and look up for setting up the project locally. The community is friendly and welcoming for any beginner level help. 

Best way to report dengue cases through a simple mobile app, All about 'dengue-stop'

Dengue is one of the most dangerous disease, when not reported and treated in time would lead to death. Today I'm going to talk about an interesting application which helps one to report dengue cases immediately and get assistance on time.  This project is built as part of scorelab research to help alleviate dengue.

The app allows you to simply authenticate yourself either through facebook or google+. This is a one step OAuth2 setup which you need to allow the application to use your public profile details either on facebook or google+.

Once logged in, the user can view the following page.

You have different options to either report the case which is near you, or report a garbage dump which is present unattended. This application helps you to report both affected cases for assistance as well as reports cases (such as mosquito breeding areas) to prevent the outbreak of the disease.

It also shows a report on the total number of cases being reports and few statistics on daily and weekly reports. That gives an idea to the community on the severity of the problem and immediate assistance can be given.

Some really good features to have is, to connect the government authorities and doctors to deal with case reports on dengue attack and garbage clearance to mitigate the problem. Also, one good feature can be to point marks on the map, to locate areas for accurate tracking.

For developers who are looking forward to contribute to the application, here is the quick link to follow and setup the project locally and contribute.

How I sloved an issue with PSLab website

Hi, I'm mehant. As part of my GCI task i was asked to test the pslab website which is under fossasia. I have to test the website and raise a bug. And also solve the same. I forked the repo, cloned to me local system and started testing the website on my browser.

I have observed that the down caret in the nav bar is inconsistent. I tested it on firefox and observed that it is working well in chrome browser.

So i started fixing the bug, by adding a css class to the div containing the caret under "getting started" section. added a margin-left style to the div and made it consistent, not only in website but also across browsers.

My Experience with FOSSASIA

I joined fossasia few months back. The journey so far was just amazing. I have met new people and got introduced to the world of open source technology. I have started interacting with people on various chat rooms, got a chance to know more about each and every project under fossasia. So before diving into my favourite fossasia project I would like to introduce myself.

I'm Mehant, studying 11th majoring in mathematics. My passion towards computers and physics is inevitable. I started playing with computers when I just 6 years. I played a lot of games and my interest towards actual coding increased when I was 11 years. I slowly started learning programming languages. I actually started off with Visual Basic, C and Java. I slowly started developing games on unity. Then I got a chance to present my game called "The Wanted" to the NASSCOMM game development contest. I was selected as a finalist twice. My passion for learning never dies. And GCI is one different experience to me. 

FOSSASIA

As I mentioned I joined fossasia a few days back. I liked the many projects which are active under it. I explored various android apps, chat bots under it. I personally like the GCI website of the current year because it was collaboratively developed by many students under guidance of many mentors. I loved the project for it's high involvement. We are also encouraged to put on ideas possible which make us think creatively. 

Another project which I liked is the susi chat system. It is fun to play with. I is almost close to cortana or siri which I use regularly. And the server giving the data to it. 

My first patch to FOSSASIA under GCI

I'm excited after my patch for FOSSASIA got merged. I loved working on github. I learnt git on my own and setting up the environment. I worked hard to get a context on how to use github and git.

The first task which i claimed is about adding a small patch to the gci website with my details which gets displayed later. I cloned the repo and I have added my information to a yaml file and image. I submitted the patch to the main code using git from command prompt. It was very difficult for me to constantly update the existing patch. I learnt and watched videos on youtube on updating the commit and reposting the same one. I took the comments on my code patch and learnt on how the website would work on taking the data. It was amazing. I starred the repo. Constantly tweeted on twitter about my progress. I got nice feedback from mentors @Princu7 @SaptakS and few others. I joined the slack channel and got to learn to how manage to join the channels and sending invite. I learnt how to host github pages which was amazing. The experience was brilliant and yes i have shared this experience with other friends of mine.

Brainy-you

   

From past few years , I have been watching many people in my life  and found a keen difference in their intellectual thinking and other things related to brain . Actually yes , I saw a wide range of people. But still worrying why there is such a difference in their intellectual abilities . Moreover , I started taking up a certain analysis on such people who differ drastically in their mind functionality.

 I have seen few of my seniors and was extremely wondered. One of them was an all-rounder. She was not only  a good basketball player but also a highly intellectual scholar. Still !! I am worrying how she could do these  things all at once. Yes! another guy who was a well renowned basketball player but couldn't pickup much in his studies.

I started my analysis right from this point. Actually saying you the truth , a normal person has got complete abilities to achieve these all things. The only thing he should do is not to get satisfied for a small achievement. Instead strive hard for further achievements thinking that you are  completely nothing in the society.

I have also got a very interesting point, you may or may not trust me but ' experience and circumstances' actually help you to achieve goals provided what experience and circumstances   your are having . That's it !! you can change your life. I like to share a simple example , if the person is surrounded by thieves and however he is, still if  he is a naive person then he would surely become a thief .

Finally I say it again sacrifice (to gain something later), good experience ( to show that you need to achieve more) and yes you also need confidence as a fuel to your success

Happy successful life
K.Mehant.
(Game developer)

Toppertrick

Hello, I am Mehant. I really wanted to share this wonderful experience of mine. There I will be showing what small mistake that a topper does before ten days of his or her own examinations.

It is fibruary 20, where I have gone to my school to clear some of my doubts in subject . To my surprise I have seen my seniors in the classroom , consisting of mathametics topper and a gold medalist . I thought to ask them what are they doing present and what are they future plans but I don't want to take suggestions for my examinations. When I was about to go , all of a sudden a couple pwd of toppers ( I mean crowd means just 2 -3) stopping me have gone to meet the ex-toppers.

To my wonder , I saw them asking some tips and suggestions about the examinations. Now I found the very mistake which children do is this.


I thought to my self that if a person want to become a topper then he or she must not take tips from toppers which is completely wrong and waste. Instead go near each failure and understand their simple mistakes which they have committed in examinations such that you never repeat those.

When they came back I asked what they have said. These replied that they said the papers will be very easy and you write as of you like and you get marks . My eyes popped out at this and never heard such a advice

I feel that my principle works on you and show some good changes thank you.