My GSoC 2022 proposal

[Valorie Zimmerman]

Welcome Samarth Raj!

Valorie

On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 2:38 AM Samarth Raj <mailforsamarth at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
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> 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.
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> I participated in the Season of KDE earlier this year, in which I added a
> new activity, "Mouse click training
> <https://invent.kde.org/education/gcompris/-/merge_requests/94>". 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> In the coming months, I'll be contributing to two activities in GCompris,
> one related to maths, "Using 10's complements to add number
> <https://phabricator.kde.org/T15276>". It is a form of addition that
> relies on the use of 10s to add numbers and the other associated with
> grammar, "Grammatical analyse <https://phabricator.kde.org/T15277>". This
> activity aims to help users to gain better understanding of  'parts of
> speech'.
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> I've briefly described the project here
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N9EhvW4uihijxmhnQLvCkgbA33cg_xuywOKFO3XBK1E/edit?mode=html#heading=h.jmv2nkhx82lt>
> in my proposal.
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> Along with the project, I wish to develop great communication with the
> community members.
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> I look forward to new learnings and great experiences ahead.
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