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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2;"><font face="Source Sans 3, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am planning to participate in this year’s
Google Summer of Code, and It seems that I need to make a contact before I submit my proposal. I have contact
</span></font><font face="Source Sans 3, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: "Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“</span></font><font size="3"><font style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lonvia”
using the email "lonvia@denofr.de</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: "Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">”who is supposed to be the mentor shown on your website</span><span style="font-family: "Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,
but I haven’t received any response for several days. Please allow me to resend this application. You can find relevant information below:</span></font></font></div>
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<li style="font-family:"Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">General Information</span></li><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;list-style-type:circle">
<li style="font-family:"Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Name: Yue Linkang, and my English name is “Brave”</span></li><li style="font-family:"Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OSM account: </span><span><a href="mailto:yuelk2016@gmail.com" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215);"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">yuelk2016@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,
which unfortunately I haven’t contributed much</span></li><li style="font-family:"Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GSoC account: </span><span><a href="mailto:yuelk2016@gmail.com" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215);"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">yuelk2016@gmail.com</span></a></span></li><li style="font-family:"Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Occupation: High school student, doing A-levels in China, expected to graduate in 2026</span></li><li><span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">GitHub: </span><a href="https://github.com/BraveYue" title="https://github.com/BraveYue" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215);"><span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">https://github.com/BraveYue</span></a></li><li style="font-family:"Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Involvement: I am kind of a fan of maps and my favourite OSM service is OSMAnd on my phone, which I like to browse
and discover new places.</span></li><li style="font-family:"Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Skills: Mainly python, intermediate level, with some familiarity with some common packages. Some knowledge of C and
MATLAB. Intermediate level of Blender and 3D-models, beginner in GIS.</span></li><li style="font-family:"Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other projects: up to now none, neither planning to do so.</span></li><li style="font-family:"Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Schedule: Will be free from June till mid-August, maybe a holiday to the US for some weeks but not yet decided. Expected
to work 30 hours per week.</span></li></ul>
<li style="font-family:"Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Project proposal</span></li><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;list-style-type:circle">
<li style="font-family:"Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I find the project "</span><span style="font-family: "Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nominatim -
Transliteration of Search Results” interesting, as a problem I face every day is that hard to search places in China with English. It is also not so well-supported by major commercial map service, especially in smaller cities. As a native Chinese speaker,
I believe my knowledge of Pinyin and Jyutping can be helpful to learn other transliteration method including Arabic and Japanese, which I always want to begin my learning of. For working language, I can use English fluently and currently have basic knowledge
of German (B1).</span></li><li style="font-family:"Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the schedule of project of completion, I still need some time to get familiar with your method used in Nominatim,
therefore I don’t have the idea of what steps need to be done. If possible, we may discuss the implementation later.</span></li></ul>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I personally find this project a valuable opportunity to get involved in an open source community, especially for a large project like this. I have tried my best to understand
how the GSoC works, and I hope I have done this right. Please kindly give me some advice or further steps I need to take.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sincerely,</span></div>
<span dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yue Linkang</span></span></div>
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