Hello My Name is Deepankar Maithani. I am currently a Masters student in Applied computer Science (Embedded systems). I am targeting the project idea “Reference Design For A GPIO-based Parallel Bi-Directional Bus”. I have experience in both Firmware development and PCB design. For a long time i am working with RaspberryPi and barebone Atmega chips and arduino. More about my work can be seen on the link deebot.github.io
My resume https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XjqWupNaj3QopU06iqx18qiwRwp-PE7f
Wish you all best of luck as the deadline is approaching.
Pretty late to get started. Do try to hop on the IRC channel and see if you can get a proposal up on eLinux before submitting your final proposal tomorrow.
Thanks for the messgae. I am trying my best to manage it 
Can you please review my proposal. Sorry its so late. https://elinux.org/BeagleBoard/GSoC/Deepankar
Hello Jason
I made some progress . Created draft schematic and Library of a component for the cape. You may please visit here https://github.com/deebot/Beaglebone-BidirectionBus/tree/master/Pre_GSoC. Also some notes on what i did this week. can be viewed here : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oUJqX_Yt0CYrYzDFnaso2w3aAtAxtcxg3zrsijS3yFc/edit?usp=sharing