[gentoo-soc] Application Antoine Gicquel

[Antoine Gicquel <antoine.gicquel@mailoo.org>]

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Hello everyone,


I am writing you to apply for the Google Summer of Code projects. I am 
long time Linux user and I have used Gentoo and Fedora for several 
years. I learned so much about computer science and operating system 
thanks to Gentoo that I want to become a contributor.


I have recently graduated from the Technology University of Vannes (IUT 
de Vannes, in Brittany, France) with a technology degree in computer 
science (called DUT in France). After these two years, I joined the 
Engineer School of Rennes (ESIR, in Brittany, France) into the 
information system department along with the advanced CS option. I plan 
to do a PhD in CS after my engineer degree. During my years of 
schooling, I have done an apprenticeship and several projects.


Throughout the last year of my technology degree at the Technology 
University of Vannes, I have done an apprenticeship in a startup called 
Smartmoov located in Rennes (Brittany, France) working in the industry 
of connected cars. I was conducting the development of the Android 
application  and I did some research about a new architecture that 
allows installation of features into an existing application. This 
experience was a success but now I want to try working for open-source 
organization I appreciate like Gentoo. You may find my other projects in 
my resume or my GitHub page (link in the resume below).


I am particularly interested in two of proposed projects. The first one 
is the support for multiple MPI implementations. I have read some MPI 
documentations and I will inform myself about the current MPI 
implementation. The second project I would apply for is the Porthole 
update. I used to use this software but because of the lack of updates I 
prefer to use the command line. Nevertheless I will be very happy to 
make it usable again and adapt it to the latest version of Portage. I 
think I have the skills needed to carry out those projects and learn a 
lot. Moreover, I can learn the necessary skills very quickly to be the 
most productive for the 3 months for GSoC.


The Google Summer of Code is an opportunity for me to get involved into 
the open-source world, develop my technical skill and learn a lot from 
free software organization like Gentoo. Even if I am not hired, I would 
be very happy to contribute to Gentoo. I would be very pleased to 
discuss with developers and mentors more technically about the projects 
and learn more about the team. I do not know if you prefer to 
communicate in email, mailing list or irc but I will be connected into 
the gentoo-soc IRC channel as agicquel and very attentive to my emails.


You can find my resume online at this link (notice the wonderful Gentoo 
colors ;-) ) 
:https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pv2PWVn-xLPVREC5-XXh704d-gVtIRas


I will remain attentive and answer any questions you may have. Thank 
you, in advance, for your time and your consideration.


Antoine Gicquel


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