{"thread":{"id":"57671","subject":"[GSoC] Contributor candidate introduction","startedAt":"2022-04-06T05:07:46Z","lastAt":"2022-04-06T05:07:46Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Plato Kiorpelidis"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"453147","messageId":"CAO2gv83m_WuWVAzomT-cBcuXoB=inf-oQORgP1o-yY4Ei0Lcvg@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"57671","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[GSoC] Contributor candidate introduction","fromName":"Plato Kiorpelidis","fromEmail":"kioplato@gmail.com","sentAt":"2022-04-05T21:30:26Z","receivedAt":"2022-04-06T05:07:46Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"kioplato@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hello,\n\nI'm interested in participating as contributor for the project\n\"Reachability bitmap improvements\".\nThe area I'm interested in, the most, is the alternate compression scheme\ne.g. Roaring+Run, however I'm ecstatic about any bitmap performance improvement.\nExpected project size I'm targeting for is large (350 hours).\nI've already completed my micro-project and I will submit it in a few hours.\nI wanted to be sure I could submit v1 of it before committing to\nintroducing myself.\n\nI'm Plato Kiorpelidis, undergraduate student from Greece, studying\nComputer Science.\nI've been developing software systems for academic purposes and Greek\nuniversities\nfor the previous 1.5 year inside my university department as full time job.\n\nThe idea of reading and implementing ideas proposed in academic papers, then\nrunning performance tests to compare and evaluate them, thrills me and peaks my\ninterest. I've been browsing the git source code on and off for two years as an\nundergraduate, thinking it would be awesome if I could contribute, influence and\nbecome actively involved in a widely used tool such as git. The opportunity\ngiven by GSoC provides the environment and support for it to actually happen.\n\nI've gone through the mailing list and looked for other candidates that could\nalso be interested in this project. Shubham Mishra is also interested.\n- Could we collaborate on this project considering how broad it is or only one\ncan be selected?\nHe/she already has experience in open source and has participated in\nGSoC before.\n- Does that make me a better fit considering GSoC is for introducing someone to\nopen source and their communities or should I strive for a different\nproject instead?\nI should note that the best case scenario for me is if we are both selected,\nprobably on different bitmap performance areas under \"Reachability bitmap\nimprovements\" project, however I don't know if it's possible. It probably\ndepends on the mentors listed for this project and the work load involved.\n- Has this happened in a previous GSoC? Did it work?\n\nThanks,\nPlato Kiorpelidis\n"}]}