<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Hi Justin,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div></div><div>I'd like to work preferably in C or Python. BTW apart from Java, language is not a barrier for me if the problem being encountered is challenging. </div><div><br></div><div>Also I won't say I'm very good at maths, but I'm quite comfortable with pursuing any topic that might be relevant to the project.</div><div>Please do refer me to any relevant topics that I should look at.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Regards</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color:transparent;line-height:1.22;">Vipul Nayyar </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On
Thursday, 7 August 2014 9:06 PM, Justin Clift <justin@gluster.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">----- Original Message -----<br clear="none">> Hello,<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I'm Vipul. I'm currently in my final year of computer engineering and would<br clear="none">> like some guidance on choosing an academic project to spend 2-3 months<br clear="none">> working on it. I've got a little experience in some internal Glusterfs<br clear="none">> components. But overall, I'm interested in contributing to the field of<br clear="none">> Distributed systems, OS or Cloud. Although an opportunity to contribute back<br clear="none">> to an Open source project including Gluster or some another would be great,<br clear="none">> but a research oriented project in this domain would be really exciting to<br clear="none">> work on.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">As a first thought
before recommending stuff, which programming languages do<br clear="none">you have a good understanding of (and like to use)?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">That will help figure things out. Also, how good are your math skills? If<br clear="none">they're very strong, then some of the clustering algorithm stuff might be<br clear="none">the thing to look at. :)<div class="yqt3413797633" id="yqtfd05805"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> On another note, I apologize if this email perceives you to be a misuse of<br clear="none">> the mailing list, but I'd really be grateful, if I could get any pointers<br clear="none">> regarding this.</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">You're fine. It's not abuse of the mailing list at all. :)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Regards and best wishes,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Justin Clift<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">GlusterFS - <a
shape="rect" href="http://www.gluster.org/" target="_blank">http://www.gluster.org</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">An open source, distributed file system scaling to several<br clear="none">petabytes, and handling thousands of clients.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">My personal twitter: twitter.com/realjustinclift<br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>