Hi Devs! I am Souvik Chakraborty, student at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), India, and this is regarding my desire to code for LibreOffice as a part of GSoC 2015.
I have been coding for around 5 years, and although most of it is of the type one would normally find in high-school textbooks, I have also participated in and completed two hackathons (Microsoft's code.fun.do 2014 and 2015). At IIT, I have so far completed one course in Programming in C++ (passed with maximum grade), and am currently pursuing a course on Data Structures with Java. Also, at my high school final exams, I secured 91/100 in Computer Science. In addition, I have basic knowledge of Python and C#. Here, I'd like to mention that I have a particular interest in debugging and writing perfect logical-error-free code. While some people might make do with any sort of code that works for a few handful of test cases, I do not. I am a perfectionist, in that sense. I often help my fellow classmates with debugging (without using any built-in debugging environments such as the one Eclipse offers). Additionally, I also like problem solving (with respect to software and hardware problems), for example, I manually disabled a trojan that had been putting up a malicious proxy server address, configured a generic USB controller to behave like a recognized one and rectified a situation where a plug-and-play device simply would not be detected. This is just to assure you that no matter the number and magnitude of challenges, I won't be deterred and lose hope or abandon my work midway. Also, I have a 70 day summer vacation and no plans of travelling, so I'll be available to tweak codes for long hours everyday. At present, I have gone through the student guide at Development/GSoC/2015, and I'm looking at some of the EasyHacks projects that I might be able to help with to further prove my dedication to the cause. Although I have used LibreOffice sparingly, I understand the concept of open licensing and personally, I think such open source software have the potential to be the best in the market. My motivations for joining this particular organisation include the prospect of some real-life problem solving for a large number of people, hands-on coding experience for a very well know organisation, having my name on the developers list and obviously, the remuneration in terms of enhancing my curriculum vitae. This mail was just a heads up to let you know who I am and why I'm here. I'll get back with the "bug fix" of one of the C++/Java EasyHacks, at which point I'd formally request a place on your team for GSoC 2015. My nick on irc is Souvik8 and I'll be writing to you from this address. Thanking you, Yours sincerely, Souvik Chakraborty 2nd Year Undergraduate
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