Student of Virtual University nominated for Google Summer of Code 2016

Lahore: Mr. Tahir Ramzan, an aspirant of Virtual University of Pakistan has been nominated for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2016 for the 2^nd time. The selected candidate belongs to Mirpur Campus of Virtual University, and he was also nominated for last year’s GSoC. Not more than 20 Pakistani aspirants have been selected in 12 years of GSoC program and three candidates are the students of Virtual University.

Last year, he worked at the project “Refunds and Partial Payments Extension and API” along with CiviCRM as his mentoring organization. However, this year, he will be developing ModSecurity Connector for Apache.

This project is an open-source, web-based firewall application mainly known as WAF. The project is supported by web servers like IIS, Apache and Nginx. This module would be designed and boosted to secure web applications against cyber-attacks.

Every year, Google summer of Code (GSoC) invites aspirants to develop applications for mentoring organizations that are working along with Google. These applications are then assessed by the organizations to watch out if they can benefit them.

The nominated students are given the complete summer to develop, build, as well as to deploy their application. Successful candidates will then presented certificates, GSoC goods and a heavy cash prize.