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GSOC INFORMATION
I had applied last year for CiviCRM, I had proposed same project last year but I was not accepted that time because I was late comer.
I am applying again for CiviCRM same project and I can devote approximately 45 hours per week to my GSoC project and there will not be any exams, education activities or some other work in this summer. I am very passionate to be part of CiviCRM and GSoC and I will give my full attention to my project to make it successful. It will be really great to start my career and boost my skills.
I think my proposed “Refunds and Partial Payments Module” is much wanted project across CiviCRM community and it highly suits my interests and learnings too.  I am expecting that this project will become part of CiviCRM core.

CIVICRM INFORMATION
Have you registered an account at CiviCRM.org?
Yes

Have you ever built a site with Drupal, Wordpress, or Joomla?
Yes

Have you ever built a CiviCRM site or helped on a CiviCRM project? 
Yes, I have installed on my system for evolution purposes, I have installed CiviCRM with all of three CMS Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress.

Have you ever posted questions to the CiviCRM Forums, JIRA, or GitHub?
Yes, I am posting to get feedback and guidance for my proposed project.

Have you ever contributed code to CiviCRM?
Yes, I am trying but at this moment I have my terminal exam that’s why I am not fully involved yet.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Have you ever utilized IRC?
Yes

Have you ever worked with Git?
Yes, but not professionally, I have taken these two courses for Git training:
How to Use Git and GitHub (https://www.udacity.com)
https://training.github.com

PROJECT INFORMATION
Which project idea sparks your interest and why?
I am interested to develop “Refunds and Partial Payments” module for CiviCRM. Link of projects idea page:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/Google+Summer+of+Code+-+2015
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviAccounts+Roadmap
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/Finance+and+Accounting
I am passionate to develop “Refunds and Partial Payments” module because I think it is much needed as well as I have already knowledge of financial account and financial management. I am expecting that my contribution will become part of CiviCRM core and nothing is more honorable for a computer science student to become part of any open source project contribution. 

Why me to solve this problem and develop solution?
•   I am a fast and quick leaner.
•   I am dedicated and sustainable.
•   I am flexible to be part of any team.
•   I have skills to program in different programming languages including PHP.
•   I have abilities to read, understand and work with APIs, documentations and libraries.
•   I have knowledge of software project management to tackle and meet deadlines.
•   I studied financial accounting, financial statements and financial management.
•   And I will be fully available to this project.

Potential Mentors: Joe Murray, Xavier Dutoit, Kreynen

Expected Deliverables:
30 April:   Software Requirements Specification and Design Document
04 May:   User Interfaces
11 May:   Database Schema
02 June:   Refunds Module
16 June:   Partial Payments Module
25 July:   Final integration with CiviCRM components

Timeline:
Before April 27:
•   Familiarize myself completely with the CiviCRM
•   Read CiviCRM developer documentation
•   Keep in touch with CiviCRM community
•   Exploration, evaluation and experimentation with codebase
April 27 – April 30:
•   Keep in touch with my mentor regularly
•   Prepare Software Requirements Specification and Design Document
•   First Blog and forum post
•   Get feedback from community and update SRS and DD accordingly
May 01 – May 04:
•   Keep in touch with my mentor regularly
•   Prototyping of User Interfaces
•   Second Blog and forum post
•   Get feedback from community and update UIs
May 05 – May 11:
•   Keep in touch with my mentor regularly
•   Development and modification of database schema
•   Third Blog and forum post
•   Get feedback from community and its updation
May 12 – June 02:
•   Get instructions and guidance from mentor
•   Coding of Refunds Module
•   Fourth Blog and forum post
•   Get feedback from community and its updation
June 03 – June 16:
•   Get instructions and guidance from mentor
•   Coding of Partial Payments Module
•   Fifth Blog and forum post
•   Get feedback from community and its updation
June 17 – June 27:
•   Publish Screencast
•   Mid-term evaluation submission
June 28 – July 11:
•   Get instructions and guidance from mentor
•   Testing and debugging
•   Sixth Blog and forum post
•   Get feedback from community and its updation
July 12 – July 25:
•   Get instructions and guidance from mentor
•   Integration with CiviCRM components (Refactoring of existing code if applicable)
•   Seventh Blog and forum post
•   Get feedback from community and its updation
July 26 – August 08:
•   Get instructions and guidance from mentor
•   Get feedback from CiviCRM community
•   Eighth Blog and forum post
•   Code scrubbing and improvement
August 09 – August 16:
•   Get instructions and guidance from mentor
•   Get feedback from CiviCRM community
•   Verification and Validation of requirements
•   Documentation preparation and improvement
August 17 – August 24:
•   Final evaluation
Aug 24, 2014:
•   Submission of required code samples to Google
•   Final Report and Blog Post

Which aspect project idea do you see as the most difficult?
Integration with CiviCRM components are seems comparatively difficult in this project; I think there should be some refactoring of existing code.

Which aspect project idea do you see as the easiest?
Financial accounting and financial management is easiest aspect for me as I have leant it in my university courses.

Which portion of the project idea will you start with?
I will start development from user interfaces then I will code Refunds Module, after that Partial Payments Module and finally I will integrate these with CiviCRM components.

Agreed that it would be good if you would start to indicate a more detailed engagement with the topic to be undertaken in addition to the process oriented proposal content.

My concern about Virtual University, not allayed by this copy and paste from a list of its accomplishments that I had previously come across, is that when I dig into one claim like 'VU’s Directorate of Quality Enhancement (DQE) sustained its highest ranking “W” category by HEC   Oct 2014' I find that the institution as a whole did not receive this mark, but only its Quality Enhancement Cell. I don't see the university on http://www.4icu.org/pk/ or http://www.hec.gov.pk/InsideHEC/Divisions/QALI/Others/RankingofUniversities/Pages/CategoryWise.aspx or http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/asian-university-rankings/2014#sorting=rank+region=+country=120+faculty=+stars=false+search= although I do see it is still accredited by HEC.

Great to know. Thanks, Tahir.

Submitted, Thanks for reminder 

Respected Sir,

I have performed these roles on www.must.edu.pk:
•   Customization according to given specification,
•   Installation of plugins.
•   Deployment on hosting

On others, I have designed those webs.
Regards

Respected Sir,

I have done with setting up development environment and git workflow, now I am reading related documentation for CiviAccounts and exploring already done work in my project to prepare my specification and design document.

I am requesting to someone who have privileges to create "GSoC2015" tag on http://civicrm.stackexchange.com/ as I have not privilege to create it, so I will able to post questions there too.
 
I am looking forward your precious feedback to move forward in right direction.

Thanks in anticipation
Regards

Yes sir,
You are right you have created it, it was my mistake I was trying to post my question on http://civicrm.stackexchange.com instead of http://meta.civicrm.stackexchange.com/.

And it would be great if you create one more on http://civicrm.stackexchange.com/
Thanks in anticipation
Regards