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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Everyone,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am Samarth Raj, a second-year undergrad at KIIT University, India, with a computer science major. My project for adding new activities to GCompris has been accepted for Google Summer of Code. I'll be working as a contributor.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I participated in the Season of KDE earlier this year, in which I added a new activity, "<a href="https://invent.kde.org/education/gcompris/-/merge_requests/94">Mouse click training</a>". This was my first experience as an open source contributor, and I cannot list the number of things I got to learn with the help of my mentors during this short period because the list is enormous.</p><p class=MsoNormal>One of my major learnings was to learn to understand different perspectives as this is a global software, so any improvement towards the application should be suitable for everyone.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Open source, in general, is a very practical way of learning. It can be slightly overwhelming at first, but with the help of people around us who are always ready to help, we start to get the hang of it with time.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In the coming months, I'll be contributing to two activities in GCompris, one related to maths, "<a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/T15276">Using 10's complements to add number</a>". It is a form of addition that relies on the use of 10s to add numbers and the other associated with grammar, "<a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/T15277">Grammatical analyse</a>". This activity aims to help users to gain better understanding of 'parts of speech'. </p><p class=MsoNormal>I've briefly described the project <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N9EhvW4uihijxmhnQLvCkgbA33cg_xuywOKFO3XBK1E/edit?mode=html#heading=h.jmv2nkhx82lt">here</a> in my proposal.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Along with the project, I wish to develop great communication with the community members.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I look forward to new learnings and great experiences ahead.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>