Eager to contribute to GSoC 2024

[Ritobroto Mukherjee]

Hello everyone!
I’m Ritobroto Mukherjee, a 2nd year engineering student from Netaji Subhas
University of Technology, India, pursuing IT as my branch of study/major. I
sometimes go by the username RMZeroFour on websites.

I am submitting my formal application for GSoC in this email, and an
attached document with further details. I would like to work on the project
“Cross Platform .NET Binding for UNO API” this summer. I believe I can work
on this as I have been learning/using C# for about 6 years now. I have also
gained some familiarity with the UNO API after converting some tests and
examples from Java to Python.

Since switching to Linux (Mint) about two years ago, my office suite of
choice has become LibreOffice. Having used it for everything from
assignments to presentations and reports to emails (including this one),
it’s safe to say I have become reliant on this suite of tools for a major
part of my university life. As such, I would love to contribute what I can
to give back to this organization and all the hard work it has done to
provide users with a free yet flexible set of office tools.

I have had a taste of various fields of programming and development,
including gamedev, hardware, emulators, physics sims, and Android apps
among others (some of which can be found on https://github.com/RMZeroFour
if needed for review). I have prior experience with open-source
contributions, notably some patches to the Conan package manager for C/C++,
as well as a C# port for the beginner-friendly graphics framework
OLC_PixelGameEngine, and now some more commits to the LibreOffice project.
The GSoC event is where I would like to consider my transition from
primarily learning, to giving back to the community.

I have submitted a few EasyHacks, of both easy and moderate difficulties.
As for my prerequisite interesting difficulty EasyHack, here is the bug I’d
like to work on (
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50998#c11), and my
submitted patch (https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/165353). As of
writing this, it is awaiting review, and I’m eagerly awaiting suggestions
and improvements.

The wiki mentioned hossein at libreoffice.org as the potential mentor, so if
it’s okay with them I would like to discuss potential approaches to the
problem.
I’d also appreciate being able to discuss ideas and suggestions with anyone
interested, mentor, contributor or otherwise, so please feel free to
contact me.

Thanks a lot to the LibreOffice team. Hoping to work with you all soon!
Ritobroto
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