Community Period end

This would be my second post here in this blog. As the name of this period implies, this time is used to communicating with my mentors, and other people in SunPy as well as reading docs and other important documents.
My exams finished on 7th May so before that I basically did nothing related to project. But to get up to speed I spent more time  to read the docs, codebase and practice code. Proper references and good materials to read was suggested by David, on a teleconference that we did on 8/05/2014. Unfortunately I missed a SunPy dev meeting thats held on every Monday at 21:30(+5:30gmt). Also it seems like Monday 21:30 would be a bad time for me. 
Reading the docs and codebase, I came across various roadblocks and got to know that there are many things I don’t understand. Fortunately I used this time to level up my knowledge. Although there is still a lot of things I have to know, but that can’t be done just by reading. 
In brief I used this time to go through astropy.units module to know how to integrate it with sunpy codebase. I played around with quantities to get a better idea about it. There was also a wcs tutorial that David gave me to read. Further I used this time to get familiar with git.
This will mark the end of community period(3 days after writing this post). I feel excited as well as nervous as this would be my first big scale project. Hopefully I will have a wonderful summer working on this project! 

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