Update participant file: add completed tasks, blog posts, PR review, and demo site

2026/participants/sushanthaaa.md

@@ -6,33 +6,82 @@ I'm Sushanth Purushothama, a PhD Computer Science student at Asia University in
 
 Over the past 8 months I led the complete replacement of a 7-year-old Joomla CMS with a production Wagtail EIP for our Taiwan headquarters. The project involved full i18n (English + Traditional Chinese with clean URL prefixes), enterprise SSO via Keycloak + django-allauth (including a custom global logout adapter), RBAC with page-level privacy, a complete frontend migration from Bootstrap 5 to Tailwind CSS 3.4 + Alpine.js, and Docker/Kubernetes-ready deployment. I also wrote all the phase reports, SOPs, and architecture documentation that the team now uses.
 
-Given my hands-on experience scaling Wagtail for a large organization, I’d love to help evolve bakerydemo into a more realistic enterprise showcase. My **first preference** is the Demo website redesign project (issue #566). My **second preference** is wagtail-localize improvements, where my production i18n work can directly help the translation workflow.
+My project preference is the **Multilingual support improvements** project. My production i18n experience at Pou Chen Group and my hands-on work with wagtail-localize give me a strong foundation for improving Wagtail's multilingual capabilities.
 
-I am fully available for the entire GSoC 2026 period (May–August) and my internship at Pou Chen Group is completely flexible as i have to work just 16 hours per week and my internship in Pou Chen ends this June.
+I am fully available for the entire GSoC 2026 period (May–August). My internship at Pou Chen Group ends in June (16–20 hours/week), and my PhD coursework is completed with no academic conflicts.
 
 ## Links
 
-- GitHub: https://github.com/sushanthaaa
-- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sushanth-purushothama
-- Personal site: https://sushanthaaa.tech
-- Personal project: https://imagenpdf.com
+| Platform | Link |
+|----------|------|
+| GitHub | https://github.com/sushanthaaa |
+| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/sushanth-purushothama |
+| Personal site | https://sushanthaaa.tech |
+| Personal project | https://imagenpdf.com |
+| Multilingual demo site | https://sushanthaaa.pythonanywhere.com |
 
 ## Tasks
 
-- [x] Posted introduction in discussion #133
+### Getting to know Wagtail
+
+- [x] Read recent posts: [Our roadmap for the next 6 months](https://wagtail.org/blog/our-roadmap-for-the-next-6-months/), [Open source AI we use to work on Wagtail](https://wagtail.org/blog/open-source-ai-we-use-to-work-on-wagtail/)
+- [x] Signed up for [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@wagtailcms) and followed on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/wagtail-cms/)
+- [x] Joined [Slack community workspace](http://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/wiki/Slack)
+
+### Google Summer of Code fundamentals
+
+- [x] Read [Advice for People Applying for GSoC](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/student-advice)
+- [x] Read [Guidance for GSoC Contributors using AI tooling in GSoC 2026](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/resources/ai_guidance)
+- [x] Read all of Google's [contributor guide](https://google.github.io/gsocguides/student/)
+- [x] Read the official [timeline](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline)
+- [x] Read [7 tips for applying to Google Summer of Code](https://wagtail.org/blog/7-tips-for-applying-to-google-summer-of-code/)
+- [x] Introduced myself on [GSoC 2026: expression of interest #130](https://github.com/wagtail/gsoc/discussions/130)
+
+### Open source fundamentals
+
+- [x] Read through [How to contribute to open source](https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/)
+- [x] Read [Open source etiquette](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Community/Open_source_etiquette)
 - [x] Created participant file (PR #178 merged)
-- [x] First contribution to bakerydemo (PR #653 — block-based site menus, fixes #554)
-- [ ] First contribution to wagtail-localize (if relevant)
-- [ ] Read full proposal template and draft proposal
-- [x] Set up bakerydemo locally and ran it
-- [ ] Read Wagtail user guide + i18n section
+- [x] Read through GitHub's [Markdown formatting documentation](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/getting-started-with-writing-and-formatting-on-github/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax)
+- [x] Added links table to participant file
+- [x] Added Tasks section to participant file
+
+### Learning and research
+
+- [x] Created Research section with relevant links (see below)
+- [x] Published blog post: [How I Found a Hidden Bug in Wagtail-Localize](https://dev.to/sushanthaaa/how-i-found-a-hidden-bug-in-wagtail-localize-4eh) — Grade 5 readability, 434 words
+
+### Django and Wagtail fundamentals
+
+- [x] Completed Django's [Getting started documentation and tutorial](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/intro/)
+- [x] Completed Wagtail's [Your first Wagtail site](https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/getting_started/tutorial.html)
+
+### Multilingual support improvements (project-specific)
+
+- [x] Set up a demo website with multilingual content managed with [wagtail-localize](https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail-localize): [sushanthaaa.pythonanywhere.com](https://sushanthaaa.pythonanywhere.com) — English, Spanish, and French with locale-aware menus and language switcher. Source: [feature/wagtail-localize-demo](https://github.com/sushanthaaa/bakerydemo/tree/feature/wagtail-localize-demo)
+- [x] Reviewed [Discussion #13693](https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/discussions/13693) and published blog post: [5 Pain Points Wagtail Users Face with Multilingual Sites](https://dev.to/sushanthaaa/5-pain-points-wagtail-users-face-with-multilingual-sites-mf0)
+- [x] Reviewed and provided feedback on [PR #882](https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail-localize/pull/882) (StructBlock translatable_blocks support): [review comment](https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail-localize/pull/882#pullrequestreview-4025224862)
+- [x] Diagnosed and reported [issue #773](https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail-localize/issues/773) — page tree corruption on subtree translation (`numchild` not updated by wagtail-localize)
+- [ ] Attempt to fix one [Wagtail core issue tagged 'i18n'](https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/issues?q=sort%3Aupdated-desc%20is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20label%3Acomponent%3Ai18n)
+
+### Other contributions
+
+- [x] First contribution to bakerydemo: [PR #653](https://github.com/wagtail/bakerydemo/pull/653) — block-based site menus with StreamField, fixes [#554](https://github.com/wagtail/bakerydemo/issues/554)
+- [x] Submitted GSoC proposal for review via [review form](https://wagtail.org/gsoc-proposal)
+- [x] Submitted final proposal PDF on [GSoC platform](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/)
+- [x] Active in Wagtail Slack #gsoc channel and [Discussion #135](https://github.com/wagtail/gsoc/discussions/135) (Q&A: Multilingual support improvements)
 
 ## Research
 
-- Bakerydemo modernization plan: https://github.com/wagtail/bakerydemo/issues/566
-- Wagtail official guide: https://guide.wagtail.org/en-latest/
+- Wagtail i18n docs: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/advanced_topics/i18n.html
 - wagtail-localize repository: https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail-localize
-- Wagtail.org navigation models (example of advanced menus): https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail.org/blob/main/wagtailio/navigation/models.py
+- wagtail-localize documentation: https://wagtail-localize.org/stable/
+- Discussion #13693 — Improving support for multilingual websites: https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/discussions/13693
+- wagtail-localize issue #773 — Page tree corruption on subtree translation: https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail-localize/issues/773
+- wagtail-localize PR #882 — StructBlock translatable_blocks support: https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail-localize/pull/882
+- Wagtail GSoC project ideas: https://github.com/wagtail/gsoc/blob/main/project-ideas.md
 - StreamField reference: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/v6.3/reference/streamfield/index.html
-- My own production EIP i18n & Tailwind migration documentation
-- Wagtail i18n docs: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/advanced_topics/i18n.html
+- Wagtail official guide: https://guide.wagtail.org/en-latest/
+- Bakerydemo repository: https://github.com/wagtail/bakerydemo
+- My multilingual demo source: https://github.com/sushanthaaa/bakerydemo/tree/feature/wagtail-localize-demo
+- My production EIP i18n & Tailwind migration documentation (internal)