<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Hi Shivam,<br><br>Thanks for your interest in our project!  As for the kinds of skills</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">required, most of the work will be related to Java, but not</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">all.  The kinds of things we work are:</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">* Android Java programming</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">* building and managing Java jars</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">* C code and building with Makefiles</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">* how Debian works</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">* how to make Debian packages</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">We do not expect you to have all of these skills, but you'll need to be</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">strong in at least two to be an effective contributor. And of course</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">part of this is about you learning new skills.<br></span><br>Your existing skills will definitely be useful here.<br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Next steps for you are to look through the Android Tools team wiki to</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">learn about the project and what needs doing, and to put together your</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">application based on the questions in the project description.</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><a href="https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools</a><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">For putting together your application, you can see the applications from</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">previous years to get an idea of what that should look like:</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><a href="https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2016/StudentApplications" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2016/StudentApplications</a><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Feel free to ping any of us in IRC when you have questions.</span><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 12:52 PM Shivam Mittal <<a href="mailto:shivammittal99@gmail.com">shivammittal99@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><img width="0" height="0" class="m_-711185419499342035mailtrack-img" alt="" style="display:flex" src="https://mailtrack.io/trace/mail/f13fc581851325b39c458457587e9eaa35ac6544.png?u=2308534"><div></div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);float:none;display:inline">Hi,</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div style="font-weight:400;font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I am Shivam Mittal. Currently I am pursuing BTech in Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. I am in 2nd year of the programme.</div><div style="font-weight:400;font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12.8px">I am interested in working under Debian in GSOC'18 on the </span><font size="2" style="color:black;font-family:sans-serif"><b>Android SDK Tools in Debian</b> </font><span style="font-weight:400;color:black;font-family:sans-serif">project</span><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12.8px">.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-weight:400;font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-weight:400;font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I have experience in working with C++, Python, Git, app development(android, chat-bot) and Java.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-weight:400;font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I have made a few apps for android, although I have used android studio only. I have also contributed to open source before, though not Debian. (Github: <a href="https://github.com/shivammittal99" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">https://github.com/shivammittal99</a>)</div><div style="font-weight:400;font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-weight:400;font-size:12.8px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div>Please guide me on how to proceed with the application and project.</div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-weight:400;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Thanks</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="m_-711185419499342035gmail-HOEnZb m_-711185419499342035gmail-adL"><font color="#888888"><div style="font-weight:400;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:small"><br class="m_-711185419499342035gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">Shivam Mittal</span></div></font></span></div><br>‌</div>
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