I participated in the Google Summer of Code 2012 as a Student with Berkman Center for Internet & Society,Harvard. During this period, I also wrote an article for the LinuxForYou magazine to spread awareness about this amazing platform and help upcoming students know how to write a high quality application.
For those of you who have missed out on the issue and the article, here is the complete Article under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.