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<div class="im"><font face="arial"><font size="2">Hello, my name is Xavi Valls, and I am a student from Castelló de la Plana, Spain. I would like to take part on the next Google Summer for Code, and the project "New AI for Ksirk" from KDE has caught my eye.<font face="Verdana"> However, i</font></font></font><font size="2"><font face="arial">t looks like it has no mentor yet, so I am concerned about this project's priority.</font></font><br>
<font size="2"><br></font><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial"><font size="2">I am currently on my 4th year of Superior Computing Engineering at Jaume I <font face="arial"><font size="2">University </font></font>in Castelló de la Plana (Spain), which is equivalent to a masters' programme first year in the new European Union's framework plan for Higher education (colloquially known as the Bologna Plan). </font></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial"><font size="2">I have been programming using C++ for the past four years using object-oriented programming and learning datastructures, and I am looking forward to learning Qt, which I started working with last year, but had to quit due to lack of time.</font></font></div>
<font size="2"><br></font><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial"><font size="2">I am taking Artificial Intelligence courses at University, and I am really enjoying it although it seems to be an applied-to-games Algorithmics (which is a subject I loved last year). I am looking forward to learning more about it throughout the Summer :)</font></font></div>
<font size="2"><br></font><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial"><font size="2">Ksirk looks like a free computer implementation of Risk, one of the games I played the most during my childhood. I still play it from time to time, meeting with old friends in a house by the beach. I really like that game. :)</font></font></div>
<font size="2"><br></font><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial"><font size="2">I am going to look for the code right now, but if you have some indications about the datastructures that have been used, search algorithms, heuristics... any information would be welcome. :D </font></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial"><font size="2"><br></font></font></div></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial"><font size="2">I also tried to contact with <a href="mailto:kleag@free.fr" target="_blank">kleag@free.fr</a>, but time is running out and he couldn't reply me in the past twenty-four hours.</font></font></div>
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<font size="2"><br></font><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial"><font size="2">Do you think I stand any chance? I think I would really enjoy Google Summer for Code and I would most definitely make the most out of it.</font></font></div>
<font size="2"><br></font><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial"><font size="2">Thank you for your kind attention,</font></font></div>
<font size="2"><br></font><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial"><font size="2">Xavi Valls.</font></font></div><div>
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