<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><pre class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><font color="#221a0c" face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 26, 12); font-size: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hi,</span></font></pre><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: GeezaPro;"><font size="4" class="">I am Abd al Rahman Gad , </font></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: GeezaPro;"><font size="4" class="">I am a computer science student ,</font></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: GeezaPro;"><font size="4" class="">I am interested in contributing to RDKit project "port xyz2mol to the RDKit core” which will be in the Google Summer of Code 2023</font></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: GeezaPro;"><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: GeezaPro;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5eb2d244-7fff-44b5-1a52-db356f44dcb9" class=""><font size="4" class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This project had my interest , and I looked at various resources related to it </span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Such that : </span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">the xyz2mol source code , </span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">RDKit api C++ ,</span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and looked for some the C++ version of the </span><font color="#000000" face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">xyz2mol source code in the C++ api.</span></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I stated these information in a really early incomplete draft :</span></font><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/165DWo2ADtHhRXDdQRGrVEcpTt8VdlAqdjhI-RHFoWXI/edit#heading=h.p2lisbe5cxh2" class="">https://docs.google.com/document/d/165DWo2ADtHhRXDdQRGrVEcpTt8VdlAqdjhI-RHFoWXI/edit#heading=h.p2lisbe5cxh2</a></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Which is open for comments </span></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I really am interested in participating in this project ,</span></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I hope you tell me about how should I prepare myself better to be a good candidate for the project ,</span></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">And should I email the mentor about the project to get more specific advice?</span></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><pre class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(34, 26, 12); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><font face="Arial" class="">Cordially,</font></pre><div class="">Abd al Rahman Gad</div></div></font></span></div></body></html>