<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear Akash,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for your message. I'll point out that the project you mention is currently being finished as a 2018 project:</div><div class=""><a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6513013473935360/#projects" class="">https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6513013473935360/#projects</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Moreover, while we will certainly apply to be a mentoring organization in 2019, there is no guarantee that we will be selected as an organization next year - new orgs (and project ideas) will likely start happening in January/February.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have cc'ed Greg Landrum, who is the project lead for the RDKit package (i.e., the package receiving the generalized fingerprinting function). You can potentially look into other RDKit projects.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But I'd emphasize that many of the ideas in our project require significant amounts of chemistry knowledge. That's not something you mention.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class="">-Geoff</div></div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 29, 2018, at 6:20 AM, AKASH AGGARWAL 5-Yr IMD Math. & Computing via Openchemistry-developers <<a href="mailto:openchemistry-developers@public.kitware.com" class="">openchemistry-developers@public.kitware.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><img width="0" height="0" class="mailtrack-img" alt="" style="display:flex" src="https://mailtrack.io/trace/mail/1688f77d120c5192faaedece99910494615d5670.png?u=2533444"><div class=""></div><br class="">
<span style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline" class="">Hello!</span><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">My name is Akash Aggarwal and i am a fourth year student at faculty of<span class=""> </span><b class="">mathematics and computing<span class=""> </span></b>at<span class=""> </span><b class="">Indian Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (IIT-BHU).<span class=""> </span></b>I am currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in mathematical sciences.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">I am willing to participate in Google Summer of Code 2019. I would love to do so with Open Chemistry because i believe that your mission is very noble and that i can gain a lot of software development knowledge from you.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">I have a good knowledge of the technologies mentioned (c/c++,python etc.)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">i will like to contribute to <b class="">Create a generalized fingerprinting function.</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">i would like to ask any available mentors, if possible, for guidance on what i should do next. I am all new to this field.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">Thank you!</div>
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