<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-eb5685cf-7fff-f1ae-9ce0-5c1ff1abe6ee"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hello everyone,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I am Vaibhav, a computer science undergraduate researcher from IIIT Hyderabad. This past summer, I was software developer intern at Google Summer of Code where my task was to built a complete tool, including an administrative interface for manual annotation of datasets for Red Hen Lab. I also have an intern project in The Linux Foundation (OPNFV) revolving around research into http-profiling and defining performance metrics for benchmarking of OpenStack’s Swift Object Storage.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I have been working and contributing to various open source projects. I have acquired fair amount of open source experience working with organizations like Red Hen Lab, ZENODO (CERN), OPNFV (The Linux Foundation) and AIMA Code. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I am an open source enthusiast and would love to mentor students new to opensource. It would be highly appreciated if I could get a chance to guide the students being a mentor in Sugar Labs for Google Code-in’18.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Since I am new to Sugar Labs it would be great if you could tell me if new comers can apply to be mentor in GCI and if so what are the requirements.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Vaibhav</span></p></span></div>