[gentoo-soc] Interest in two projects

Hello,


My name is Zach Pearson, and I'm currently working as a cheminformatics specialist at the Molecular Structure-Function Lab in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the Uiversity of Kansas School of Pharmacy. Wow, that's a mouthful every time.


I am also a post-baccalaureate junior in the KU School of Engineering's Computer Science program. I made the choice to get another bachelor's degree rather than attend graduate school because the sense among the faculty at the time was that it would be less restrictive career-wise, though I have interests in operating systems, compilers, virtualization, human-computer interaction, and computational natural sciences that I would love to work on in a graduate program if that's what the future holds for me.


I came to Gentoo after a couple years of using Linux and just feel in love with its elegant package management system and the ease with which a stable system could be kept, even with a mixture of versioned and live packages. I've used it for three years now, and I hope to use it always.


I joined the IRC channel but I see we should also email this group, so what follows is a copy of my message to the IRC channel, edits in brackets as they would be for a quote:


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Hello everyone, I'm interested in participating in GSOC, particularly on the eclean-kernel rewrite[ or] kernel stabilization[ projects]. [Before I learned of GSOC] I [was] also considering a kernel manager like ukuu, but right now I've just got a script that updates my own automatically.

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Thank you for reading this and I look forward to working with you.


Zach Pearson

Molecular Structure-Function Lab

Department of Medicinal Chemistry

School of Pharmacy

The University of Kansas, 66045