<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear Anishka,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks and welcome! I think a key component in a strong student proposal is to pick one project that interests you the most and think carefully about the components needed. For example, you list 3 projects with RDKit - compile RDKit, try it out, and see if you can fix a bug or two from the RDKit tracker.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We also have advice about applying on the wiki:</div><div class=""><a href="http://wiki.openchemistry.org/Applying_to_GSoC" class="">http://wiki.openchemistry.org/Applying_to_GSoC</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hope that helps,</div><div class="">-Geoff</div><br class=""><div class="">
---<br class="">Prof. Geoffrey Hutchison<br class="">Department of Chemistry<br class="">University of Pittsburgh<br class="">tel: (412) 648-0492<br class="">email: <a href="mailto:geoffh@pitt.edu" class="">geoffh@pitt.edu</a><br class="">web: <a href="http://hutchison.chem.pitt.edu/" class="">http://hutchison.chem.pitt.edu/</a>
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 5, 2017, at 11:37 AM, Anishka Gupta <<a href="mailto:rimjhim0107@gmail.com" class="">rimjhim0107@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Hello Sir/Madam,</span><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">I am Anishka Gupta, a 2nd year student of NIT Hamirpur, India. I am pursuing a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">I wish to participate in GSoC 2017 with your organisation, Open Chemistry. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">I am proficient in Python, C++,<span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""> C, Java, JavaScript, Shell, web and mobile app development, web scraping, scripting.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">I have seen all the projects on the ideas page and I felt particularly interested in the projects :</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">1.</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;" class=""> <b class="">Integrate with RDKit</b> (under Avogadro 2)</span></div><div class=""><font face="sans-serif" class="">2. </font><span style="font-family: sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Create a generalized fingerprinting function </b>(under RDKit)</span></div><div class=""><font face="sans-serif" class="">3. </font><b class="">RDKit - OpenMM Integration </b>(under RDKit)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;" class="">4. <b class="">Implement MMTF Format </b>(under OpenBabel)</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">5. <b style="font-size:small" class="">YAeHMOP as a library </b><span style="font-size:small" class="">(under Micellaneous)</span></div><div class="">6. <span style="font-family: sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Discovering computational chemistry content online </b>(under cclib)</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">I am ready to work on any of the above projects depending on availability of mentors and requirements of students.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Could you please guide me regarding the projects, how to get started and where I can find the source code and other resources.<span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""> </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Also, is there any qualification task for it?</div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">I will submit the application to you when required.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Regards,<br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Anishka Gupta</div></div>
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