Hi all,

I am Aniketh Girish, currently a junior year student at Amrita University, India. I have been a Google Summer of Code student - twice. Furthermore, I have been selected as a KDE Summer of Code student as well in the KDE community. A selected project that I have worked on will be the implementation/ the integration of DNS over HTTPS protocol into the tool called Wget in GNU Linux, written in C.

Over the past few months, I have been working on learning about different protocols and about their implementation. I understand the concept of HTTP/2 and I have a basic understanding of its implementation. I would like to be a part of the SAoC program and help dlang community in implementing the protocol in D.

Few of my concerns are:

* I have never used D in my career yet, will that be an issue for me?

* I haven't contributed to the dlang community yet. Will that be a decisive factor for this program?

Looking forward to a response soon.

Cheers.

On Friday, 10 August 2018 at 15:18:31 UTC, Aniketh Girish wrote:

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> Over the past few months, I have been working on learning about different protocols and about their implementation. I understand the concept of HTTP/2 and I have a basic understanding of its implementation. I would like to be a part of the SAoC program and help dlang community in implementing the protocol in D.

Sounds great!

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> Few of my concerns are:
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> * I have never used D in my career yet, will that be an issue for me?

It is not an automatic disqualifier. The background of each applicant will be weighed during the evaluation of the applications, and part of that includes past programming experience. So it will be a factor, but it alone won't kill your chances. Anyone with a strong background in C or C++ should be able to pick up D easily enough and should be able to overcome most issues with the help of the mentor and the forums.

More important are the quality of your proposal and if you can show projects you have completed in the past.

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> * I haven't contributed to the dlang community yet. Will that be a decisive factor for this program?

Not at all. We are eager to welcome new users to the community as part of SAoC.

Please submit your application to us before the deadline!