[gentoo-soc] Introduction

[Devan Franchini]

Hello Gentoo-SoC mailing list,

    My name is Devan Franchini, I'm quite familiar with Gentoo as I am
a Gentoo developer as well. I'm a college student at D'youville
College who is roughly two semesters off from obtaining his
Undergraduate degree in Information Technology/Software Engineering.
Unfortunately for me that means that currently a large chunk of my
time is put toward my education and schooling. Which makes me feel as
if I contribute too little to the Gentoo community.

   That, along with wanting to hone my Python skills, has become my
motivation to want to work on my proposed GSoC project this Summer. My
proposed project consists of adding forwards compatibility to the
Gentoo tool, layman. Along with adding new features such as git branch
support.

    Throughout my college career I have gained a mass of knowledge in
many different fields. My main interests are in system development,
such as C libraries. Well, to be honest, as much of an interest as
that is for me, I am not opposed to any new learning opportunity when
it comes to Linux, programming, or computers in general.

    If my project is accepted for this year's GSoC I would be elated
to know that I can take this opportunity to contribute to the best of
my abilities while also setting up a foundation to contribute more
later on down the road.

With regards,
    Devan Franchini