Hello everyone!
I’m Ritobroto Mukherjee, a 2nd year engineering student from Netaji Subhas University of Technology, India, pursuing IT as my branch of study/major. I sometimes go by the username RMZeroFour on websites.
I am submitting my formal application for GSoC in this email, and an attached document with further details. I would like to work on the project “Cross Platform .NET Binding for UNO API” this summer. I believe I can work on this as I have been learning/using C# for about 6 years now. I have also gained some familiarity with the UNO API after converting some tests and examples from Java to Python.
Since switching to Linux (Mint) about two years ago, my office suite of choice has become LibreOffice. Having used it for everything from assignments to presentations and reports to emails (including this one), it’s safe to say I have become reliant on this suite of tools for a major part of my university life. As such, I would love to contribute what I can to give back to this organization and all the hard work it has done to provide users with a free yet flexible set of office tools.
I have had a taste of various fields of programming and development, including gamedev, hardware, emulators, physics sims, and Android apps among others (some of which can be found on https://github.com/RMZeroFour if needed for review). I have prior experience with open-source contributions, notably some patches to the Conan package manager for C/C++, as well as a C# port for the beginner-friendly graphics framework OLC_PixelGameEngine, and now some more commits to the LibreOffice project. The GSoC event is where I would like to consider my transition from primarily learning, to giving back to the community.
I have submitted a few EasyHacks, of both easy and moderate difficulties. As for my prerequisite interesting difficulty EasyHack, here is the bug I’d like to work on (https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50998#c11), and my submitted patch (https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/165353). As of writing this, it is awaiting review, and I’m eagerly awaiting suggestions and improvements.
The wiki mentioned hossein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx as the potential mentor, so if it’s okay with them I would like to discuss potential approaches to the problem.
I’d also appreciate being able to discuss ideas and suggestions with anyone interested, mentor, contributor or otherwise, so please feel free to contact me.
Thanks a lot to the LibreOffice team. Hoping to work with you all soon!
Ritobroto
I’m Ritobroto Mukherjee, a 2nd year engineering student from Netaji Subhas University of Technology, India, pursuing IT as my branch of study/major. I sometimes go by the username RMZeroFour on websites.
I am submitting my formal application for GSoC in this email, and an attached document with further details. I would like to work on the project “Cross Platform .NET Binding for UNO API” this summer. I believe I can work on this as I have been learning/using C# for about 6 years now. I have also gained some familiarity with the UNO API after converting some tests and examples from Java to Python.
Since switching to Linux (Mint) about two years ago, my office suite of choice has become LibreOffice. Having used it for everything from assignments to presentations and reports to emails (including this one), it’s safe to say I have become reliant on this suite of tools for a major part of my university life. As such, I would love to contribute what I can to give back to this organization and all the hard work it has done to provide users with a free yet flexible set of office tools.
I have had a taste of various fields of programming and development, including gamedev, hardware, emulators, physics sims, and Android apps among others (some of which can be found on https://github.com/RMZeroFour if needed for review). I have prior experience with open-source contributions, notably some patches to the Conan package manager for C/C++, as well as a C# port for the beginner-friendly graphics framework OLC_PixelGameEngine, and now some more commits to the LibreOffice project. The GSoC event is where I would like to consider my transition from primarily learning, to giving back to the community.
I have submitted a few EasyHacks, of both easy and moderate difficulties. As for my prerequisite interesting difficulty EasyHack, here is the bug I’d like to work on (https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50998#c11), and my submitted patch (https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/165353). As of writing this, it is awaiting review, and I’m eagerly awaiting suggestions and improvements.
The wiki mentioned hossein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx as the potential mentor, so if it’s okay with them I would like to discuss potential approaches to the problem.
I’d also appreciate being able to discuss ideas and suggestions with anyone interested, mentor, contributor or otherwise, so please feel free to contact me.
Thanks a lot to the LibreOffice team. Hoping to work with you all soon!
Ritobroto
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Ritobroto Mukherjee GSoC Application.odt
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