Hello All,
I am Sriharsh ( I go by the nick of darthbhyrava on IRC and on Phabricator), and this is a rather late introduction of myself. :P
I am a second year undergrad pursuing a dual degree (B.Tech in Computer Science and MS in Computational Linguisitcs) course at IIIT-Hyderabad. I was fortunate enough to be selected as a Google Summer of Code intern at Wikimedia this year, and I will be working on implementing pywikibot support for the Thanks extension. :)
I would like to thank my mentor jayvdb for helping me extensively since February, and for being one of the primary reasons for my getting selected. I would also like to polybuildr, my friend from college, who introduced me to the world of Wikimedia, fellow intern AbdealiJK for his help, and all the other people who replied to my doubts on IRC or reviewed my patches or commented on my tasks. Thank you all, for giving me an opportunity to work on Thanks! :)
It's been a while into the Community Bonding period, and I have enjoyed it so far. I have realized the demands of the project, and look forward to the challenge of implementing Pywikibot-Thanks over the next two months. This being my first GSoC experience, I look forward to a learning a lot over the summer and beyond!
Thank you for your time.
Sriharsh Bhyravajjula IIIT-Hyderabad
P.S: You can take a look at my proposal and progress at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130585, or read my blog on my wonderful Wikimedia experience so far at http://bhyrava.me/code . Thank you once again!