• Aniketh Girish (20/20) Aug 10 2018 Hi all,
• Mike Parker (14/25) Aug 11 2018 It is not an automatic disqualifier. The background of each

Aniketh Girish <anikethgireesh gmail.com> writes:

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.

Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:

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

 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!

 Few of my concerns are:

 * 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.

 * 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!