Well, I was on a trek this week, on a height of about 4000 meters and it wasn’t a surprise that I had no network there. The day the GSoC results came, I was unaware of all the happenings going down there. I was dying to get back down, and see whether my 2 months of toiling hard work had born fruit. I had managed to submit two proposals in SunPy before the deadline. Yes, TWO! In my last blog post, I talked about how interesting the project Sunkit-image sounded to me, and how I was looking forward to prepare a proposal for it. Anyways, things changed a bit, when Cadair asked to me look a bit on the other project- improving the Drms module for JSOC downloads.

27th of February, it is. I am enjoying at a party with the other KOSS people. Somewhere far away, a PR was getting merged, to show to the world (not literally, only the GSoC aspirants) which organizations would participate in Google Summer of Code 2017. I didn’t have to worry (Overconfidence) , cause I was sure OpenAstronomy would be selected. I had been involved with SunPy over a fortnight now, and I was sure of doing a project under this org. Although, I am not an astrophysicist (nor I plan to be :p), my long lost interest in astronomy came back alive when I started working with this org. All those times in my high school, when I dreamed of becoming an astrophysicist, or reading about Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and spending hours understanding the Twin’s paradox or Lorrentz’s contraction. Ahh! Those days. And, then somehow, software caught me. :/